Beloved Siblings in Christ –
The Transition Committee would like to hear from you! As we plan the Meet and Greet week to showcase our diocese to our candidates and the candidates to the diocese, we are seeking your input. What do you need to know that will help you discern who our next Bishop should be? Please click the link below to offer your own questions to the future candidates.
Submitting your questions now will help us shape the meet and greet week and better understand the longings of our diocese. While we cannot promise every question can be asked of the candidates, your input is valued and needed as we create opportunities to get to know our candidates. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us at this time.
Blessings,
The Rev. Ben Cowgill
Chair, Bishop Transition Committee
A Collect for the Election of Our Bishop
Creator God, whose Church lives beyond the walls of buildings and the boundaries of cities, we ask that you guide our work as the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia moves together through a transition of leadership. We pray for patience in dialogue and wisdom in discernment, that the richness of our diverse voices, from farmland to small town, mountain to downtown, will be valued and heard. We pray for the person who will be elected as our next Bishop, for all those who are in discernment, and for the people of this diocese, so that the work of spreading God’s love in southwestern Virginia and beyond will grow and flourish in the years to come. In the name of your incarnate son we pray. Amen.
A Letter from the Transition Committee – Meet & Greet Questions