The Future is Now: Exploring the Shape of Leadership in the 21st Century Church

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be the speaker at our 2012 Clergy Conference at Suncadia Resort near Cle Elum. Clergy from the Diocese of Spokane will join us in this joint clergy conference.

DATE:  Monday, April 16 — Wednesday, April 18, 2012 (Early arrivals Sunday, April 15)
PLACE:  Suncadia Lodge, Cle Elum, WA
SPEAKER:  Presiding Bishop  Katharine Jefferts Schori
ROOM RATES:  $121.60 (all rooms can serve as doubles)
COST:  Anticipated conference registration fee is $265.00 (not including dues)

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Dear Friends:

It is a privilege for me to serve as the CADO President for 2011-2012. I have chosen to serve on the CADO Board because I am committed to the growth and development of clergy.

Before I moved to this Diocese in 2004, I served as Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Field Education at CDSP. In this role, I worked with seminarians, helping them to discern their gifts and to prepare for ordination. In many ways, my work with CADO is an extension of this experience.

My hopes for CADO include my desire that we will find new and creative ways to live into our four core commitments: collegiality, wholeness, formation, and advocacy.

Currently, I serve as Rector of Christ Church in Tacoma. My husband, Jim, is a software salesman at Intel and we have three grown children: Marc, Dan and Beckie. I look forward to seeing you around the Diocese and give thanks for your support.

In peace,
Jane

Meetings to explain the new insurance parity requirements will be held June 27 and June 28:

Monday, June 27, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Trinity, Everett – Clergy and Lay
Monday, June 27, 2:30 AM – 5:00 PM – St. Margaret’s, Bellevue – Lay only
Tuesday, June 28, 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM – St. Andrew’s, Tacoma – Clergy only
Tuesday, June 28, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM – St. Stephen’s, Longview – Clergy and Lay

Employees of either the diocese or a congregation who work 30 hours a week or more are requested to attend. General Convention passed a resolution mandating parity between clergy and lay medical insurance coverage. The Church Pension Fund’s website offers detailed information about this resolution: http://www.cpg.org/productsservices/dhp_approved.cfm.

Garth Howe, a representative of the Medical Trust, will be at all the meetings to answer any questions and share his expertise. The resolution is broad and leaves the specifics of eligible employees and what is mandated as the minimum coverage to each diocese (with each congregation able to offer more than the minimum). The diocesan personnel commission will present a resolution this fall at our own Diocesan Convention to decide these issues. The commission feels it is important to both answer questions and, more importantly, to hear your ideas about the specifics of the resolution it will submit to convention this fall for implementation January 2013.

Please respond A.S.A.P. to Heather Kmitta by phone (206-325-4200/800-488-4978) or e-mail.

At Clergy Conference, Deacons Sally Carlson and Brian Wright introduced the Diocese of Olympia’s campaign to help St. Vincents, a school for handicapped children in Haiti.

Click on this link to see the Powerpoint presentation on The Great Fifty Days of Easter Campaign for Life Support at St. Vincent, the Diocese of Olympia Haiti project for 2011:

http://www.ecww-clergy.org/wp-content/uploads/Life Support at St Vincent.ppt

To see the St. Vincent Poster:

http://www.ecww-clergy.org/wp-content/uploads/StVincentPoster.pdf

2011 Clergy Conference Schedule
Alderbrook Resort, Union WA

Monday, April 4

10:00               Morning Prayer
10:30-100        Time with Bishop Rickel
1:00-3:30         Lunch & Free Time
3:30                 CADO Meeting beginning with Chris Smith-Clark
4:30                 HR presentation with Cheryl Middleton
5:30                 Social Hour and tours of St. Andrew’s House
6:30                 Dinner (Nordstrom Hall at Harmony Hill)
8:00                 Fireside Chat (St. Andrew’s Lodge)
9:30                 Compline (St. Andrew’s House Chapel)

Tuesday, April 5

7:30                 Breakfast buffet at Alderbrook
9:00                 Morning Prayer
9:30                 Bishop Sutton
12:00-1:30       Lunch
1:30-4:00         Bishop Sutton
4:30                 Conference Eucharist
5:30                 Social Hour (Harmony Hill)
6:30                 Dinner (Nordstrom Hall)
8:30                 Compline (St. Andrew’s House Chapel)
Tonight’s worship is in the form of an installation, an interactive, experiential journey through a symbolic desert. It will be open in the St. Andrew’s chapel from 7:30 to 10:00, and may be visited at any time during those hours.

Wednesday, April 6

7:30                 Breakfast buffet at Alderbrook
9:00                 Morning Prayer
9:30-11:30       Bishop Sutton
11:30               Noonday prayers

Alderbrook Resort

Register now for the 2011 CADO Clergy Conference at Alderbrook Resort! Registrations received by February 28 will receive the earlybird discount of $25 off the $275 registration fee.

To register online, email your completed registration form to Jane Rohrer at revjane@holycrossredmond.org and pay by credit card online through the Diocesan Online Payment system.

To register by mail, you may mail your registration form with a check to Jane Rohrer, CADO Treasurer, 16060 NE 28th St., Bellevue, WA 98008

For more information, go to the January 2011 CADO Newsletter on the Clergy Conference.

The first edition of the CADO Newsletter is out! You can find an online version by clicking here.

Welcome to the newly redesigned CADO website! Our goal is for this website to become a clearinghouse for information for clergy in the Diocese of Olympia, and a practical way to enhance “collegiality, wholeness, and formation.”

Please browse through this website and let us know how we can improve the information it offers. If you have links or documents that you think should be shared, please let us know.

The webmaster is Bill Fulton, a member of the CADO Board.