This year's Annual Meeting will be held on the church lawn tomorrow at 11:30. Be sure to register in advance. If you are unable to attend but wish to vote in the election, follow this link to attend the meeting via Zoom.

Ministry Annual Reports were sent to the parish earlier this year. If you wish to review them for the meeting, click here.

Elections will occur for three vestry slots, as well as Synod and Deanery delegates and alternates.

Liz Edwards

Vestry Candidate

-Born: Bay Shore, Long Island, New York many years ago

-B.S.in Speech Pathology and Audiology from SUNY Geneseo

-M.S. in Special Education from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. 

-Member of St. Andrews since 1980

-Served twice as a Vestry member

-Served twice as Senior Warden

-Currently a Lector / Eucharistic Minister 

Over the next few years, I would like to see some physical plant improve-ments, i.e. increased parking and upgrading of the 2000 addition.

Fr Ben has done such a great job during the shutdown, I'm sure our ranks will be increasing. We have to make our facilities ready. I would welcome an opportunity to serve our parish again.

Heather Clausen

Vestry Candidate

I moved to Edwardsville in the fall of 1991 to attend college and play basketball at SIUE. I have been teaching special needs students in Edwardsville District 7 for the last 25+ years. I have also enjoyed coaching volleyball and basketball prior to starting our family.

I grew up within the Catholic faith, attending parochial school from fourth grade through high school. I recall being part of the choir and excited to be one of the first girls at St. Laurence to become an altar girl. 

When I moved to Edwardsville, I was a parishioner at St. Boniface and then at St. Elizabeth’s in Marine. During those years, I enjoyed helping with the Bonifest and the annual chicken dinner in Marine. 

Prior to my partner, Heather, and I having our daughter, Emery, it was very important to us to be part of a parish and church community where we felt at home at as a family. We have found that in St. Andrews.

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Carl Slaughter

Vestry Candidate

I have been an Information Technology Administrator for a local Credit union for 28 years. I was attracted to the Credit Union "movement" as it embodied the idea of the need to help people where other financial institutions would not.

I was not born into the Episcopal Church or any Christian faith. I infrequently attended church until the age of 27 when I met my wife who

was a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

Up until that time I had not yet been baptized as it was the wish of my parents that I choose my own "path" of faith. My mother, Grace,

was a baptized Christian. She died when I was 16.

I grew to love the liturgy and tradition as well as the

message that Episcopal denomination represents. In 1996 I was baptized and

confirmed into the church. Margaret and I were married at St. Andrews on April 19, 1997.

I have previously served twice on the vestry at St. Andrews as well as being a member of various committees including liturgy and music, finance as well as serving as parish warden.

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