compensation adjusted to level of experience

Broad

• The congregation is small, responsive and dedicated.
• The congregation is close-knit, friendly and welcoming.
• St John’s is long standing active partner in the Centreville community.
• St John’s offers a traditional worship service.
• St John’s has a beautiful historic setting while offering modern facilities.
• St John’s has enough space to host multiple other faith-based organizations and offer them a place to worship.
• St John’s is currently financially self-sufficient.
• St John’s enjoys the support of a vocational Deacon.
• St John’s has an active outreach program.
• St John’s has adult Christian education programs.

• Our congregation is small and aging. We have found it challenging to attract new and younger families.
• St John’s carries a substantial mortgage, high maintenance costs, and significant a repair list.
• The many tasks involved in the workings of a church are shared by too few people due to our small numbers.
• St John’s is not as culturally or racially diverse as we would like.
• St John’s has an historic chapel surrounded by an historic cemetery in Centreville’s Historic District limiting what we are allowed to do with our facility.
• The COVID pandemic reduced participation in services, fellowship opportunity and revenue.

Opportunities:

• St John’s has a diverse group of community partners with whom we could better interface.
• Centreville is an area with many outreach opportunities
• St John’s is looking for leadership to guide us in serving the wider community.
• St John’s has a facility that is suited to host events.
• St John’s is surrounded by underserved populations that might find our church appealing.
• St John’s has an opportunity for further cyber outreach.
• St John’s is open to expanding our liturgical offerings.
• St John’s is open to expanding our Christian education program.

Four characteristics or skills of a clergyperson considered essential at this juncture:

• Skills and ideas to help us grow and diversify (in age, socio-economic, culture)
• Gifted in preaching and teaching, in order to make scripture relevant to people’s lives through succinct sermons
• Leadership skill and ideas to widen outreach and participation in our community
• Skilled in providing pastoral care

The Rev. Shirley Smith Graham, Interim Transition Minister, Diocese of Virginia

ssmithgraham@thediocese.net, 804-622-3180