Leadership

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church  

• Rector, wardens and vestry:  Our rector, The Rev. Ann Lukens, and our wardens, Marilyn Taylor and Doug Birrell, serve as a steering committee to guide the work of the vestry (elected governing board) of St. Michael's.  Together, these ten leaders set parish priorities and policies, manage finances and facilities, and oversee all program areas.  Each year, every vestry member brings that oversight into focus by concentrating in two of the following areas:  administration, education, facilities, finance, outreach, parish life, parish development, stewardship, and worship.  In fall, winder, and spring, the vestry invites the whole congregation to an All Parish Meeting to propose and evaluate various courses of action.

• Vestry-appointed Leaders:  Clerk, treasurer, pledge secretary, historian and Parish Development Team.  Each year the vestry appoints a member of the congregation to serve as its clerk, to maintain all documents and vestry minutes for the parish; a pledge secretary to provide a confidential accounting of donations; a treasurer, to keep the financial records for the parish, and a historian to maintain a continuing chronicle of major events.  In 2002, the vestry also appointed an ongoing six-member Parish Development Team to research and recommend actions, to be undertaken to build up the life of the parish.

• Parish Administrator:  A part-time professional administrator serves as the day-to-day nerve center for parish communications and projects.