Vestry biography template

Are you a new or returning vestry member this year? Looking for tools and resources to help you and your fellow vestry members? Here is a list of resources for your vestry toolbox that we at the Episcopal Church Foundation ECF believe to be particularly helpful.

In previous years, I have been a Vestry member and Senior Warden.

Vestry Resource Guide The Vestry Resource Guide is the essential guide for leadership in an Episcopal congregation, no matter what the size, location or demographics are for your church. Chapters include the ministry of the vestry, vision and strategic thinking and clergy transition. Included are some helpful templates for job descriptions, a commissioning liturgy and suggested Vestry Papers articles that share how congregations have lived out the topic being addressed.

Your congregation and community demographics The Episcopal Church provides a great resource through the Office of Research with statistical data on every Episcopal congregation.

Vestry is a way that I can give back to the church and to the greater Herndon community.

The information is taken from your annual parochial report. You can also download your community demographic data there. A free report, provided each year by the Episcopal Church, the Community Profile provides demographic information based on a three-mile radius around your church. Some congregations will find it more useful than others, but why not see what you can glean from it?

Vestry Papers Subscribe to Vestry Papers and receive free articles, tools and resources for congregational leaders, written and composed by your peers in throughout the Church. In January and February, the focus is always on vestries, and the September and October issue is always on stewardship. Click here to view previous issues. The Vital Practices digest, sent out each month, features a topic related to congregational life and offers a curated list of the best resources from the archives of ECF Vital Practices.

Click here for the digest archive. Your parish by-laws, diocesan canons and state nonprofit laws Do you know if your congregation has by-laws?