AN UPDATE FROM YOUR DEAN SEARCH COMMITTEE
Dear Christ Church Cathedral Community,
We have been hard at work these last two weeks sifting through the many qualified applications we received for the position of our next dean. The process is painstaking as each applicant sent us a cover letter, a resume, answers to a variety of questions and, in most cases, links to sermons. It is a lot to get through and every member of our committee reviewed the application of each candidate.
As of today, we have determined a list of applicants that we want to continue to get to know. We are inviting these candidates to submit in the next two weeks answers to additional questions via video and, in some cases, submit a sermon, also in video format. Our entire committee will view these new submissions. We will then narrow the field before moving on to a first round of interviews with each of our remaining candidates via Zoom.
We are excited by the quality of the applications we have received and to be moving on to the next phase of our process. We are still on target to call our next dean by late summer or early fall. As always, we will keep you up to date as we go.
As an additional update on the committee itself, as many of you know, one of our original members, Nikki Shenk, gave birth to twin boys this past Saturday, March 13. We are overjoyed for Nikki and her husband, Andy, and their son, Henry, as they welcome these new members to their family. As this was expected, Kelsey Lindner has now permanently stepped in to replace Nikki. The transition was seamless, as Kelsey had been shadowing Nikki for several weeks and had sat in on all our meetings. We are thrilled for Nikki and her family and so happy that Kelsey is on board.
We continue to ask you to keep us in your prayers.
Sincerely,
Your Dean’s Search Committee
Olden Warren, co-chair
Patrick Daffin, co-chair
Drew Abbott
Anne Jaroszewicz
Kelsey Lindner
Karen Taylor
Jane Paige-Steiner
Melissa Vath
