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AGENDA

1. Call to Order—Opening Prayer—Welcome...... Interim Dean Rev. Jason Leo

2. Recognition of Secretary

3. Elections • Recognition of 2020 Nominating Committee...... Interim Dean Rev. Jason Leo • Explanation of Electronic and Other Voting Procedures...... Sarah Hartwig - First Ballot for Elected Positions

Reporting on balloting and additional ballots will occur as needed throughout the meeting

4. The Interim Dean’s Address (Ministry Appreciations)...... Interim Dean Rev. Jason Leo

5. Treasurer’s Report...... Sandra Crawford • Budget Recap for 2020 • Pledge Updates • Presentation of 2021 Budget

6. Next Century Vision Update...... Dianne Ebbs, Tom Kent

7. Dean Search Committee Update...... Patrick Daffin, OldenWarren, Rev. Canon John Johanssen

8. Trustees’ Report...... Steve Gerdsen

9. Senior Warden’s Address...... Michael Henrickson

10. Appreciation to Outgoing Vestry...... Michael Henrickson, Interim Dean Rev. Jason Leo

11. Closing Prayer and Doxology

12. Announcement of Cathedral Leadership Positions...... Michael Henrickson

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Agenda------3 Table of Contents------4 Report of the Wardens and Vestry 2020------5 Report from the Interim Dean------7 Report from the Sub-Dean------10 Report from the Canon Missioner------14 Report from the Operations Executive------15 Special Gifts and Bequests Received 2020------22 2020 Statement of Revenues and Expenditures------23 2021 Pledge Appreciation------26 Report of the Trustees------27 Slate of Nominees------28 Rotating Vestry Expiration Date Roster------29 Organizational Chart------30 Committee Reports------31 Archivist------31 Boar’s Head & Log ------31 Buildings and Grounds------32 Camping and Youth Opportunities ------33 Cathedral in the Park------34 Communications Department------34 Community Issues Forum------35 Docents------36 Episcopal Network for Economic Justice------36 Family Ministry------37 5000 Club------38 Flower Guild------39 Gallery South------39 Hospitality Guild------39 Interfaith Hospitality Network------40 Jubilee Debt Forgiveness Program------40 Music Committee------41 Native American Ministry Council------44 Outreach------45 Community Grants------46 Plumb Line Ministry------47 Prayer Group Ministry------48 Resource Stewardship------48 Taft Lecture Series------49 Ushers - 10 am Services and Special Services------49 Youth Program------50

4 REPORT FROM THE WARDENS Michael Henrickson, Senior Warden | Mary Grover, Junior Warden We acknowledge this has been a painful past year riddled with loss. Yet, there are reasons to be hopeful. We review highlights of an exceptionally busy year in the life of our beloved cathedral community. The remaining projects of the Third Century Vision that incrementally progressed in 2020 include the Cincinnati Scholar House (CSH) and the cathedral’s new nave organ installation. Although we could not celebrate in person, CSH successfully opened on June 1. This innovative program at 939 East McMillan Street tackles poverty by addressing two generations at once, providing 44 two- and three- bedroom apartments to single-parent students. Along with a safe home, these student parents receive quality childcare, professional case management, and supportive services to help ensure their successful graduation from an accredited post-secondary program. The cathedral partnered with Cincinnati Union Bethel (CUB) and the Model Group to bring this vision to reality. The cathedral has a 10-year financial obligation to support CSH. Our congregation can take great heart in knowing the profound impact CSH will have for the city, helping to break the intractable cycle of poverty by starting with its participating student parents. It was through the dedicated efforts of our late Mark Sackett, a champion of CSH, that essential grant funding ultimately sparked this endeavor to its long-awaited completion. Cathedral congregants know the dedication of our CUB partners who additionally run the Anna Louise Inn, a source of affordable housing and health services for single women. Turning our attention to the new nave organ, Richards, Fowkes and Co built, delivered, and progressed with much of the organ’s installation during 2020. While interrupted by the pandemic, its lengthy voicing process will continue well into 2021. The vestry continued careful budgetary oversight for our many projects and missions. This included loan refinancing for the Capital Campaign projects’ remainder ($6M) that did not achieve sufficient donor contributions during the campaign. Refinancing served the dual purposes of achieving better financial terms and bank service. The new loan is managed via PNC Bank. One of the most gratifying aspects of vestry service encompasses witness to the maturation of candidates for the process. We are currently blessed to be involved in review of two cathedral members who are pursuing ordination to either the diaconate or priesthood. Prior to vestry review, candidates have been scrutinized by regional discernment committees. Our cathedral-sponsored candidates provide interim updates to the vestry whose exploratory questions and reflection determine endorsement for the next step, the Diocesan Committee on Ministry. Our current priesthood candidates and seminary students are Dan Carlson (2nd year) and Martha Camele (1st year). Stacey Sands joyfully attained her ordination on June 6, 2020, setting her devotion to God’s work into an important new phase. Postulant Debbi Rhodes withdrew from the ordination process after careful discernment. Cathedral staff members Dan Carlson and his wife Kim Taylor, a professional musician, moved to Berkeley, CA in January 2021 to allow Dan to attend seminary full time at Divinity School of the Pacific, former Dean Gail Greenwell’s alma mater. Kim and Dan have contributed immeasurably to the foundation and nurturing growth of the cathedral’s Noon Service with great care and devotion. Their enduring gift to the cathedral is the robust Noon Service community. Keep our dedicated seminarians, Dan and Martha, in prayer and loving support. Dean Gail announced her retirement, prematurely completing her term at the cathedral in May 2020. She made this difficult decision with love to support her ailing husband, Jim.They moved to Portland, OR. Another casualty of the pandemic was the loss of our ability to provide a celebratory, public farewell to the Greenwells. However, initially committed resources will be repurposed to a welcome party when our new Dean arrives and begins her/his ministry.

5 By June 2020, the vestry had a very full docket of work, including the imperative of initiating the Dean Search Process. While largely unseen by the congregation, there is a great deal of work involved to lay the foundation for the Dean Search Process. This involves three key steps. The first step is to identify members to serve on the Dean Search Committee (DSC). While there is no defined process to accomplish this task other than reaching consensus to create a very effective, capable, and collegial team, the vestry chose the process that would provide a broad representation, i.e., a mosaic, of the cathedral. We used 14 categories to generate DSC diversity. Vestry members reviewed nominations submitted by clergy, self-nominating congregants, and the vestry to rank and eventually select eight candidates and additional alternates. An intensive, Holy Spirit-filled few days in early August brought the DSC to life as candidates decided if they would answer the call to serve. The vestry’s additional two tasks were completion of the Charge to the DSC (a formal, detailed description of the tasks involved in completing the search process) and the Dean’s Position Description, all of which we completed by September 9. The latter sets the priorities for those qualities we most desire in a new Dean to shape our future together. For perspective, the vestry completed this work in a third of the time taken at the initiation of the last search process (2012). The resulting committee has been remarkably cohesive and efficient in its work, including late-November completion of the Parish Profile (used to portray the cathedral to prospective clergy applicants). The search process is running on schedule as originally planned. Please also keep the DSC members in your prayers. The vestry accepted the Next Century Vision (NCV) report in August, the culmination of a year of congregational listening sessions and careful discernment by the NCV Strategic Planning Team. Currently, the subcommittee members involved in the NCV’s five recommendations have been asked to start implementation plans. Of these, the Affordable Housing Equity Fund initiative is a pressing priority given the exponential escalation of evictions in our city. Town Hall meetings held throughout October- November provided both DSC and NCV updates for the congregation. Analyzing and adapting NCV plans to a post-pandemic era is a new focus of these several subcommittees. Overall, there is a remarkable level of work in process despite our limited ability to gather in person. We commend Interim Dean Jason Leo for his leadership and recognize the very difficult decisions he makes on a sustained basis to prepare the cathedral for our next Dean. Cathedral clergy and staff have performed admirably under extraordinary, ever shifting circumstances throughout 2020. We will emerge from our current crises and continue to engage and deliver the cathedral’s mission in its great tradition of service. Your wardens are indebted to all who contribute as we keep our enduring attention on our mission of healing as the hands of in an anxious world. Keep strong! In service to you, Michael Henrickson Mary Grover Senior Warden Junior Warden

6 REPORT FROM THE INTERIM DEAN The Rev. Canon Jason Leo I will soon begin my ninth month as Interim Dean. Time has flown by so quickly. It is a sign of the blessing that I have received by this call to ministry at the cathedral as well as the numerous challenges we have all faced together as a community. I blinked and it was February, and I am sure that is because the days—every day really—have been so full. Preparations for the call of a new Dean are a primary focus. The search committee has been hard at work and you receive a report on their progress today. They are an amazing group. Worship at the cathedral has been a moving target due to ever changing COVID-19 restrictions. The Noon Service has been exceptionally stable with their online presence and their commitment is a profound witness. Outdoor worship ended during a significant increase in COVID-19 cases and the arrival of the vaccine. We remain hopeful that a blended online/in-person worship experience can continue.

Pastoral care leadership was assumed by Canon Bill Scrivener following the retirement of Canon Karen Montagno. Pastoral care during COVID-19 had been a challenge, but connection to parishioners in need or trouble has continued via telephone, email, house blessings (with door hangers), distribution of Day-by-Day meditation booklets from Forward Movement Publications, and seasonal boxes with devotions and activities for children and families. Our primary gathering space has been the cathedral website which continues to offer many opportunities for our community to stay connected. The Wardens, Vestry, and Trustees continue to provide excellent leadership for all administrative functions at the cathedral and maintain excellent care of the building and all cathedral finances. The Dean’s discretionary fund (The Coombe Fund) continues to support outreach and assistance in the following areas: • Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens through Episcopal Retirement Services • Art Camp • Caracole • Episcopal Relief and Development • Gleaning Project of Cincinnati • Habitat for Humanity • Lydia’s House • Mount Healthy Food Bank • Over-the-Rhine Community Housing • Reading Camp • Scholar House • Schoarships for at Risk Youth • Seminary Scholardships All distributions since my arrival on July 1, 2020, have been reviewed by the Rev. Canon George Hill.

7 The flexibility and commitment of the staff is a daily blessing to me and to the whole cathedral community. They sent me descriptions of their work during COVID-19 to share with you but there was so much that if I tried we would be here until . I do want to thank them. Staff: • Matt Hornsby • Madeline Sartor • Marvin Williams • Crystal Jones • Margo Nelms • Sandy Porada • Sarah Hartwig • Kathy Noe • Andrea Owens

• Jean Beck • Judy Hering • Stephan Casurella • Shiloh Roby • Christopher Wheeler • Rabbi Abie Ingber • Brooklin Taylor • Deacon Stacey Sands • The Rev. Bill Scrivener • Deacon Marshall Wiseman • Sub-Dean Canon Paul Williams • Carine de Lange

5000 Club There are many experiences of God’s grace and love each week that leave me with profound images that I want to share with you, but again there are so many. I do want to share one with you. Every Tuesday around mid-day volunteers start arriving for the 5000 Club. Tables appear and the smell of food slowly starts to drift through the corridors. The number of volunteers begins to grow. By 4:15 p.m., they are a team and ready to go. That team represents every worship service at Christ Church Cathedral (8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., the Noon Service, and Evening prayer). The staff (both clergy and lay) pitch in as well as people from Cincinnati who attend other churches and some who do not attend church at all. The police officer on duty—who we have for safety purposes—always rolls up his or her sleeves and helps get people served—and served a hot, well prepared, nutritious meal, that is always offered with a smile, a blessing, and a huge portion of love. One by one the guests come through and receive their meal, and hot coffee, and often a new mask, or a pair of new shoes.

8 This is the image, the picture I want to share with you today, because, for me, this is the Kingdom of God breaking, flowing in to Christ Church Cathedral. This is the image, the picture I hope to share one day with the new dean, because it gives me hope—hope that people of many backgrounds and faiths and occupations and beliefs can come together for the common good and help people...help God’s people get a little closer to the Kindgom that proclaimed. It is one image...one picture, one piece in the great mosaic that is Christ Church Cathedral and it is, for me, a sign that our best days are yet to come. Faithfully,

Jason Leo, Interim Dean

9 REPORT FROM THE SUB-DEAN The Rev. Canon Paul B. Williams Summaries Phrase of Year: “You’re on mute.” (I that) Truism of Year: “Everything changes except death and taxes.” Overused Remark of Year: “We’re building the bicycle as we ride it.” (Mostly by me) Prayer of the Year: “Be kind, everyone is hurting.” 1. Formation 2. and Worship 3. Pastoral Care 4. Staffing Changes 5. Newcomer 6. Budgeting 7. Database Formation Most of us were blissfully unaware of the change before us in January. In February, the clouds began gathering. From mid-March navigating the process and progression of our move from all in-person to no in-person services used up most of the oxygen in the room, so to speak. Programming took a hit. Quest Classes, Education for Ministry (EfM), Thursday morning Men’s Study, Thursday Noon Women’s Study, and Big Questions sessions with teens initially moved online. Sunday morning Bible Study (9:00 a.m.) did not at first. Eventually Lenten Series and Spiritual Direction Series were cancelled. Children’s Sunday School classes “Telling God’s Story” and Catechesis were cancelled as it quickly became clear online wasn’t an option. Summer Camps got the benefit of our learning from early mistakes we made and the benefit of great planning, staffing, and volunteers. Directors of the three cathedral summer camps (Music,Arts, and Reading) met over Zoom to coordinate planning for summer and moved everything online. Christopher Wheeler, Hannah Teetor, and Dianne Ebbs led these efforts. Happy Half-Hour with the Rabbi and Noon Service Reflections were two other examples of hope amid the pandemic. Each Thursday at 2:00 p.m. we Zoom a Bible Study given by Rabbi Abie Ingber of the Hebrew Scripture (commonly referred as Old Testament) passages assigned in the for the following Sunday. For the Noon Service there are reflections and an invitation into conversation which replaces the . Moving those reflections online did not quash the conversational reflections. For the summer there was a joint cathedral and Diocesan Book Club. The Rev. Canon Lee Ann Reat and I offered the online book club to encourage a diocesan-wide effort at formation. We think by end of summer the first (or second) wave of Zoom fatigue was setting in, and it ended after our third gathering. One summer programming idea continues to this day, “afterNoon” conversations. After each 12:00 p.m. service those who wished stayed online for conversations ranging from “why do Episcopalians do that?” to theology of the Atonement to a renewed conversation of theology mined from super hero stories. In October, we started a post-10:00 a.m. series of Town Halls for two initiatives to further share information about the Dean Search Committee and Next Century Vision and to encourage conversation around them. With retirement of the we lost our regular series presenter. With COVID-19, we lost our ability to have in-person programming. and baptisms for the 2020 Quest class were finally given on November 29, the bishop’s last Sunday before retirement. 10 Two other cancellations due to COVID-19 were Gallery Exhibits and the bishop’s Wednesday Advent Series. The beautiful exhibit “Icons in Transformation” which Mike Phillips had worked tirelessly on hosting ended up being cancelled twice and moved to later 2021 or 2022. For a world of Zoom, Brooklin Taylor conceived an “old-school” answer and devised Boxes for Families to use to help with faith formation at home with materials and programming through the cathedral. and calendar projects started as a way to move Advent wreath making from the undercroft to people’s homes, ended up a project that was so 2020. Every part of the project took longer than we thought and was more complicated than we anticipated. But the end result was 50+ households picked up their own Advent wreath-making kit and more than 250 households were mailed some type of and additional Advent resource. The silver lining to this is our ACS parishioner list is much cleaner and more accurate because of these efforts. With the Class of 2020 graduating (without a graduation ceremony), the teens remaining at the cathedral had a hard time re-gathering. With a variety of engagement levels (low to medium) a handful of good and faithful teens was not enough critical to plan Zoom programming. Dan Carlson regularly remarked that we weren’t able to engage the teens enough to grow the group. Their absence is a big hole in the cathedral community and we are poorer for it. Seminarians resident at the cathedral are provided formation in various points of ministry by inclusion in nearly every aspect. Currently, Dan Carlson and Martha Camele are those residents. Additionally, I’m meeting with parishioners who are discerning whether to enter the ordination process, and currently three parishioners of the cathedral are doing so. Liturgy and Worship Redirects on 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. worship: We encountered production failures at the beginning of the shut-down. The cathedral community both local and beyond endured myriad failures in the production of online worship at the cathedral. Some of those failures were beyond our control such as Zoom production going offline around the world, but most were self-inflicted.After each Sunday we reviewed what worked and what didn’t. Yet the number of moving parts took us by surprise at first. We needed an alchemy of creativity and production to plan our way through this uncertainty. Managing desperate moving parts of production for online worship without dedicating money or personnel to handle the increased work load and work expertise resulted in lack of central quality control. In a pandemic, it is understandable to refrain from adding expenses. Expanding worship opportunities was constantly on our minds. We turned to outdoor worship when indoor was no longer possible. Our best measurements brought us to conclude that Sycamore Commons was the best space, and that spacing allowed us up to 25 worshippers at a time. In August, we added three services of worship on Sundays, 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and 5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer. Weekday worship services took a hit as we cancelled 5000 Club’s Tuesday Evening Prayer, Wednesday’s 12:10 p.m. Contemplative Prayer, and Friday’s 12:10 p.m. Holy . The Friday Eucharist morphed into Friday Noonday Facebook Live. Ordination : The diaconal ordination service set for June was modified, remodified, and remodified again around COVID-19 protocols, especially including physical distancing protocols. Huge amount of creativity was required and Stephan Casurella and Shiloh Roby gave in spades.

11 Clergy Rota: Before the pandemic, rotations of assigned duties for worship were scheduled out four months in advance. After shut-down we quickly learned such long-range scheduling wasn’t possible in a daily changing COVID-19 numbers landscape. Bishop’s Last Sunday: Bishop Breidenthal announced his retirement and his last Sunday was set as November 29. It wasn’t the type of day we wanted, but it arrived. Jon Boss was canonized as Honorary Canon of Cathedral. While his prerecorded sermon played in the nave, the bishop’s presence was in Sycamore Commons blessing, baptizing, confirming, receiving, and reaffirming those candidates we had been praying for all year. Quest Class and , Baptisms, Receptions, and Reaffirmations: 17 members of the cathedral experienced the Holy Spirit in a new way on quite a cold day. We had been praying for them since February, so you probably could recite many of their names yourself. Their day of presentation arrived. The bishop opened this service at 10:00 a.m. in Sycamore Commons with Canon to the Ordinary John Johannsen. Each household was given a waiting room in the building so they need not wait in the cold and were brought to the bishop in family groups to maintain physical distancing.

Weddings, Funerals, and Memorials: We anticipate a busy summer schedule with multiple weddings and memorial services waiting to be rescheduled in later 2021 when in-person worship is allowed. Pastoral Care Starting in 2018, there have been five successive clergy entrusted with oversight of pastoral care at Christ Church Cathedral: Sherilyn Pearce, Dick Rasner, Paul Williams, Karen Montagno, and now Bill Scrivener. Bill Scrivener is currently working on an idea of building a lay pastoral care team to assist clergy with providing continuous pastoral care. Pastoral Care includes prayer ministries such as cards sent to those on the prayer list, prayers of the people during worship, hospital visitation, and clergy calls. Cathedral Connectors were a group of 22 cathedral parishioners who committed to stay in contact with 15+ families each during the early months of the outbreak of COVID-19. They finished their six week schedule and Zoomed together at the end of May for sharing experiences, what worked, what didn’t, and suggestions on whether to continue and how. COVID-19 Survivors Group started by cathedral parishioners for group conversations of the side-effects they endure after testing positive. Hearts and Hands prayer shawl ministry continued through the year including making masks for 5000 Club volunteers in addition to many prayer and healing scarfs, blankets, and miniature prayer blankets to carry and give to others as a reminder of power of prayer. Grief Care: The cathedral uses this pre-packaged program to help provide some consistency in contact with those who have lost loved ones and are going through the grief process. While the program is helpful no doubt, it is managed as an administrative task rather than a pastoral care task and that can change. Staffing Changes Hannah Teetor received a call to be a Director of Children and Family Ministries at Church of the Redeemer (Hyde Park) and she concluded her ministry at the cathedral after Summer Art Camp at the end of June. It is a good move for Hannah and we know she will do well. Brooklin Taylor was called to be our Director of Family Ministries and began July 1. To summarize, our formation programs were and are grappling with low attendance across the board, before and after COVID-19. Hannah’s departure and Dan Carlson’s future seminary obligations requiring more time away from the cathedral meant we needed to think outside the box and move our formation to more 12 intergenerational offerings, things we can do together as families and households or as families of friends. We believed a full-time person was needed to integrate formation of children, youth, families, and young adults, and re-imagine Christian formation not only at the cathedral but also include the diocese. Fresh Expressions Ministry, Brooklin Taylor is now responsible for liturgical programming, supervision of Noon Service Leadership Team, Artwork, Zine project, and the Zine project guidance for a diocesan roll-out of the concept. Dan Carlson was given a new title of Director of Fresh Expressions on July 1. To summarize, Dan Carlson was hired as Director of Youth Ministries in August 2015. After a year of working for the cathedral, his position transformed in September 2016 into Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries to develop a new ministry with young adults at the cathedral. From that grew the Noon Service community which both developed its own identity while integrating into the life of the cathedral. For the Episcopal Church and the wider that model is called “Fresh Expressions.” With Hannah’s departure Dan redirected into the position of Director of Fresh Expressions and Brooklin was hired to help the cathedral vision a new type of intergenerational formation.

As we know, Dan was offered an opportunity to go full-time on campus at CDSP (Church Divinity School of the Pacific) in Berkeley, CA. This allows him to accelerate both his graduation and ordination dates. While he and wife Kim Taylor are away at CDSP, Dan remains a seminarian of the cathedral and will return at times to preach and teach. Position postponed until after new dean arrives: Children’s Formation and Family Ministry position is not replaced until the new dean arrives. Brooklin Taylor is redirected as Director of Fresh Expressions to replace Dan Carlson and Kim Taylor, having moved to California for Dan to go into full- time seminary study. Karen Montagno was able to retire, and is now enjoying a new retired life after more than 25 years of service. FYI, clergy are notoriously bad at retiring and can’t seem to relax. I’m sure we’ll see Karen active in the diocese when she tires of relaxing. Newcomer Ministries This is the ministry most hobbled by lack of in-person worship and study during the pandemic. I don’t have any easy answers. Mind you, we continue to reach out to all newcomers with phone, email, and mailing contact. It’s simply more difficult to know who is a newcomer on live-streaming and Facebook Live. Budgets We noted budget line items and general categories becoming anachronistic, specifying programming no longer operational or existent, or descriptively vague and overly broad. In our 2021 budget processes, particular line items were noted and alternate line items suggested for 2021. We achieved a good budget decrease from 2020 to 2021. These budgets are Adult Formation, Children and Family Ministries, Fresh Expressions, Pastoral Care, Welcoming Ministry, Hospitality Ministry, Liturgical Supplies, Guild, and Flower Guild. Database ACS is the name of the data base the cathedral uses for parishioners’ general contact information. Surprisingly, it is in good condition after months of updating by Kathy Noe and me from November into 2021. Like anything data driven, it requires regular maintenance and that maintenance is mostly updated by Kathy Noe.

Faithfully, Paul Williams, Sub-Dean

13 REPORT FROM THE CANON MISSIONER The Rev. Canon Karen B. Montagno The final months of 2020 have been tumultuous nationally and globally. The Noon Service “Zine” for Advent and 2020 reminds us to “Fear not. God is with Us”. In the few weeks when things seemed to be at unrest it was helpful to remember that the Holy Spirit holds all of us together in Gods will. I have had the privilege to be a companion in prayer for the Dean Search Committee each week, and the good and dedication to the life of the cathedral continue the great work of justice in the city. It has been a year of challenge with COVID-19 and the opportunity to explore being together in new ways. We have found new ways of engagement, deepening and expanding relationships, reaching out, and being in communities, organizations, and individuals to support and share ministry. The pandemic and election has sharpened my ministry.

This pandemic year since March has been one of methodical listening and keeping in touch with members of the congregation by meeting them through the directory, phone calls, distanced visits, house blessings, and door greetings. It has been a blessing for me. Gun violence continues to escalate and our partners value our support. I have continued to work with social justice partners along with our interfaith commitments such as Scholar House, the Musketeers, Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati Interdenominational Minister’s Alliance (MARRC). The Absalom Jones service and the Union of Black Episcopalians are other areas of my participation. Many of the worship services have been virtual or in Sycamore Commons which has been new for many of us. I am grateful to those that made worship possible. continues to be meaningful to those who find the holidays difficult.This year has been especially poignant with isolation and those in our community that have suffered or passed on. It has been a privilege to serve. Karen B. Montagno, Canon Missioner

14 REPORT FROM THE OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE Carine de Lange The Operations staff continued to focus on streamlining processes, documenting procedures, and supporting the cathedral’s programming. More efficient systems and teamwork would provide the essential infrastructure necessary to meet the challenges of this unprecedented year. As the global COVID-19 pandemic quickly became local, our goal in operations was to ensure that the cathedral’s clergy and lay staff could continue to provide services to the congregation, to the Diocese, and to the community in a safe environment. All staff worked to ensure that worship, fellowship, teaching, giving, and outreach efforts functioned despite the escalating crisis that limited or prohibited physical gathering. Through these long months of ever-evolving circumstances, Christ Church Cathedral’s mission of faith in action continues to be the hallmark of this dynamic community. As the new year dawned, we had no inkling of the challenges we would be facing by the coming year. During January and February, CCC hosted its customary full complement of worship services, concerts, congregational and community meetings, and outreach programs. In January 2020, the community celebrated the 80th annual Boar’s Head festival, and in February we held the Annual meeting in the undercroft. By the end of March, life had changed dramatically. On March 9, Governor DeWine declared a state of emergency in Ohio, issuing a stay-at-home order on March 22. Although the order exempted religious institutions, the Diocese of Southern Ohio took decisive precautionary steps to protect our congregations and employees and the cathedral followed these guidelines. The cathedral building was “closed for business” on March 23 with the exception of the 5000 Club on Tuesdays and live streaming on Sundays. Yet CCC services not only continued, they expanded. Staff transitioned to working remotely with the innovative support of the IT department. Laptops were loaded with software so all administrative employees could work from home. At the end of April, Governor DeWine announced a tentative return to business in person within strict guidelines and on May 1, CCC staff began the cautious, step-by-step process of returning to the building on May 4. CCC followed the state’s and CDC’s public safety directives, and the May 2020 Planning Guidelines issued by the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Beginning on May 1, live-streaming or pre-recorded streaming of services from the interior of our church buildings was authorized by the Diocese of Southern Ohio, with a maximum of five people physically distant from one another. Initially, all in-person gatherings were limited to 10 people. All services were streamed remotely until the end of May. In July, Bishop Breidenthal opened up outdoor gatherings for , Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Liturgy of the Word, baptisms, weddings, and funerals. We began gathering for services in the beautiful Sycamore Commons in closely prescribed numbers with pre-registration required. The decision was made to carefully gather for worship on July 15 in the Nave. Senior Warden Michael Hendrickson sent a letter to the congregation sharing that this first service would be in the Nave with 20 people plus a minimal number of worship leaders. Planning considerations included air circulation, traffic patterns with separate entrances and exits, enough pews for safe distancing, safety signage, and contact tracing procedures. Pre-registration was required; family groups could sit together. Registration increased each week and success/challenges were closely monitored and adjusted.

15 The opening of our church buildings is tied to the Ohio Public Health Advisory System, which church leadership monitors closely. When Hamilton County returned to red level in October, worship services were once again pivoted away from indoor serves and toward online and outside gatherings, and when it reached purple in January 2021, all in-person worship was suspended for the time being. Staffing Jean Beck began as the part-time Controller in December 2019. Andrea Owens started as the Operations Administrative Assistant in February as a shared staff member between the Diocese and the Cathedral. 2020 was the third year of the ongoing collaboration between Christ Church Cathedral and the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Operations Executive Carine de Lange (50/50 split), Facilities Director Matt Hornsby (80/20 split), IT Director Tammie Vanoss (40/60 split), all divided their time between CCC and DSO. All in-house catering ceased with the stay-at-home order. Ro Morsby, our kitchen manager, resigned in July as he moved to New York.

The nursery was closed in March due to the COVID-19 restrictions and childcare services have not resumed. Our emphasis continues to be on keeping our staff, congregation, and community safe. Only limited staff has returned to the building. Anyone who can continue working efficiently from home is encouraged to do so. As we remain closed to the public for the time being the front door is locked and any visitors (contractors etc.) are required to sign in for contact tracing purposes. All employees and visitors are required to wear face masks. Several washable cloth face masks were issued to all employees and disposable paper masks are available at the front desk for anyone who needs one. Anyone not feeling well is encouraged to stay home—employees have a generous PTO policy. Each employee was provided with hand sanitizers and disinfectant wipes for their work areas. Social distancing (6 feet) is to be observed in all work areas. In order to continue to work cohesively weekly staff meetings continued to be on Zoom. A new photo board for staff and vestry members was added to the wall opposite the nursery in January 2020. Our sextons received new uniforms and jackets for a more professional appearance and to be easily identified. A CCC staff organizations chart is included in the annual report. Facilities Security is a continuing focus at the cathedral. Before the pandemic hit discussions took place with a group of retired police officers to take over our security on Sundays.This will be revisited once we are able to gather in person again. Keypads for the tower elevator and electric strikes for the stairwell doors were installed in January. In September, a Masterlock Vault access system—a doorbell with video—was added to the cathedral’s Fourth Street entrance making it easier to provide limited access to those needing access without issuing keys. Bids are being reviewed for other external and internal doors.

The facilities department continues to review systems for greater efficiencies, including event set-up procedures. Maintenance contracts and supply orders were reviewed for best pricing. Project work also continued throughout the pandemic. Quotes were reviewed for capital budget items such as outdated kitchen suppression equipment and roof repair. Two 30-yard dumpsters were rented in the fall to begin

16 the clean-up of the CCC basement and other areas. The sextons were then able to clean, disinfect, and combine storage areas. The sidewalk repair for issues causing crumbling in the basement was completed in December. The Nave Organ In January 2020, the eagerly awaited construction of the Nave organ—Richards Fowkes & Co. Opus 24—officially began. The installation and voicing of the organ would be delayed by the pandemic as the building was shut down, and later by issues with the HVAC system in September. The tuning should be completed by the end of February 2021. Commemorative Stones Two new commemorative stones now grace the panels lining the sidewalk ramp in Sycamore Commons. These limestone sculptures were created by Karen Heyl, the same nationally celebrated local artist who crafted the other evocative bas-relief sculptures in the garden. The stone honoring the Very Rev. Gail Greenwell for her seven-year service as dean was installed in November. The design of Rev. Greenwell’s stone represents one of her favorite Bible passages—2 Corinthians 5:17. The bird and nest with eggs represents new life, while the withering tree represents the passing away of former things. The second decorative stone honors the Rt. Rev. Thomas Breidenthal’s thirteen-year ministry as the Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio. The artwork pictures one of the Bishop’s favorite saints, St. Michael and All Angels, and was dedicated the first Sunday in Advent, the day of the Bishop’s final sermon at CCC. Historical Marker: The cathedral, in conjunction with the Ohio History Connection, celebrated our over 200-year history as a downtown church with the installation of an historical marker on June 9, 2020. The marker is installed on the northeast corner of Fourth and Sycamore Streets. The text on the plaque reads: In 1817 twenty-two men, including future President William Henry Harrison, chartered Cincinnati’s first Episcopal parish, Christ Church. In 1835 members erected a Gothic Revival-style church on this site. The neighborhood evolved as the city grew with the influx of immigrants. Parish women raised funds to teach, feed, clothe, and shelter tenement families, and alleviate suffering during floods and disease outbreaks. In 1883 the women helped establish what became Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. In 1909 members opened the Late Gothic-style Parish House, a community center with kitchen, classrooms, library, auditorium, clinic, gymnasium, and bowling alley. By the parish’s centennial in 1917, music had expanded beyond worship to public concerts. In 1940 the annual Boar’s Head Festival of music and pageantry began. Since the 1960s, members have collaborated with local agencies to advocate for social and economic justice, a mission continuing into the 21st century. Many church members were civic leaders and war veterans. They built soap and chemical factories, foundries, meat packing plants, riverboat, rail, and streetcar lines, retail stores, utilities, banks, publishing houses, schools, and public buildings. By 1925 they had helped organize charities under what became the United Way and helped found the City Charter Committee to fight city hall

17 corruption. Among these families were Yeatman, Drake, Lytle, Pendleton, Foote, Procter, McGuffey, Longworth, Probasco, Strader, Kilgour, Emery, Anderson, Taft, and Rawson. In 1918 the parish consecrated the Gothic and in 1957 a new church of mid-century design. In 1993 this church became the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. In addition to worship services, the cathedral hosts concerts, public forums, housing and food programs, and reading and art camps. Facilities Pandemic details Once the cathedral building was shut down at the end of March, suspending in-person worship and staff shifting to working from home, the facilities team checked in frequently to make sure the building was okay. Sextons disinfected high traffic areas on Tuesdays (5000 Club) and Sundays (live streamed services) after each use of the building; disinfected communal areas used by drop-in staff such as bathrooms, doorknobs, light switches, stair railings, and elevator buttons; and ordered disinfectant cleaners, hand sanitizers and dispensers, disinfectant foggers, and PPE (masks). This was challenging since so many supplies were unavailable for extended periods at the start of the pandemic. In preparation for the eventual reopening, we minimized the potential for surface contamination by removing water from baptismal fonts and stoups as well as the , , hymnals, prayer cards, and kneeling cushions from the pews which were put in storage. Informational signs were posted to remind congregation, employees, and visitors about safety protocols (wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing hygiene, non-contact greeting). Also posted directional signs to reinforce safe distancing.

HVAC and water systems were flushed as recommended by CDC workplace guidance and strategies for reopening buildings. Sextons focused on high traffic areas and cleaned areas such as the Nave or Sycamore Commons after each service. We purchased a battery operated Ryobi Lithium-Ion Cordless Fogger Mister to spray Shockwave, an EPA approved cleaner for use against COVID-19. A protective plexiglass partition was built around the front desk. Visitors are required to sign in for contact tracing purposes. No more than five people should gather in the reception area at one time and people should observe six foot social distancing convention. A plexiglass shield was also purchased for the altar, the , and other areas in the nave that is moveable and can be used in other areas as required (chapel, Sycamore Commons). The Sycamore Commons, a peaceful and inspiring outdoor gathering space with a walking labyrinth and living wall, would play an essential role in the spiritual life of CCC. Built as a space for rest, reflection and renewal, the gardens took on a new role as host to outdoor worship services. As COVID-19 infection rates climbed once again in the fall, the gardens provided outdoor gathering space so that the congregation could continue to gather in person. The multitiered space was adapted as a sound system was installed for services and instruments were rolled out for musicians. As the weather grew colder, high powered patio heaters were added, along with a canopy tarp for the pergola.

18 AA Meetings were suspended during the shutdown. The Sunday discussion meeting is held online and our Operations Executive is in discussion with the group as to when they will be able to return. IT and Communications The reorganization work done by the IT and Communications departments in the first quarter of 2020 would become the foundation for the successful transition to virtual services during the upcoming pandemic. They began an audit of the website and social media channels for usability, effectiveness, and performance. This analysis would be used to help restructure and upgrade the website. Online nominee profiles, nominee forms, and voting ballots developed for the CCC February 2020Annual Meeting. Lessons learned from this meeting would later be useful for the Annual DSO convention that was held virtual and the 2021 CCC Annual meeting that will also be virtual. The Wi-Fi network in the undercroft was upgraded for the annual meeting.

The 2020 Boar’s Head VHS/DVD was transferred to a digital file for preservation, which would be a major save when the pandemic prohibitions made it impossible to stage the 81st annual Boar’s Head in 2021. Over 2,100 people shared and enjoyed the archived performance in January 2021.

Adjustments were made for all administrative staff to work from home, including the set-up of laptops with remote software applications. A scheduling and forwarding system for calls was established, along with a Plumb Line messaging system. Additional Zoom accounts were purchased so that staff, clergy, vestry, and committees could hold meetings, panel discussions, and webinars. A remote file system was set up so clergy could easily upload their daily reflections to the website. COVID-19 and liturgical resources were added to the website and shared with both the congregation and the Diocese.

The main priority of the communications department has been to keep our community connected throughout the COVID-19 crisis, without sacrificing the substantive nature of our worship and music events in the shift online. Collaborating to connect and communicate, online services recorded the times of our spiritual lives – making liturgical content available 24/7 on an as-needed basis, reaching people where they were and when they liked. Recordings of worship gatherings, reflections, concerts, , appeals, and meetings were streamed. CCC services stayed relevant by responding to changing needs and circumstances. Communications Director Sarah Hartwig and IT Director Tammie Vanoss worked in tandem to aggressively shift all programming online. This evolving programming helped to build relationships and awareness of cathedral offerings. In addition to the three Sunday worship services, the list of special services continued to grow: virtual coffee hour following the 10:00 a.m. service, Friday Noon Prayer, Choral , Daily Noon Reflections, Happy Half Hour with the Rabbi, Evening , and Music Live@Lunch. An online support group for COVID-19 survivors was established. Members of the congregation were invited to increasingly participate by contributing content, reflections, and testimonials. A nimble communication system was even more necessary as we started returning to the building in Summer 2020 and the Ohio public alert system constantly fluctuated. Parishioners could reserve spaces for in-person gathering and make contributions online. In addition to clearly communicating regathering plans, communications supported key strategic goals put forward by Interim Dean Jason Leo, the Dean Search Committee, Next Century Vision plan, the music program, free summer art and music camps, programming for CCC Christian Formation including new branding for Fresh Expressions, Absalom Jones Convention, annual meeting, bi-monthy community issues forums, and online programming from the Diocese and the Presiding Bishop’s Office.

19 Members of the finance, administration, communications, and IT departments worked together on the 2020-2021 annual appeal, developing content and creative material for the We Are Christ Church Cathedral campaign. The campaign launched in October has a significant website presence in addition to social media, radio and print support pieces. Donation forms make it easy to give on all devices. Finance Jean Beck joined the CCC staff as part-time controller in December 2019 and hit the ground running working on year-end, parochial reporting, and preparing the financial annual report. Our fixed asset list was reviewed for disposals in February. The data was input into the new asset module in ACS, our financial database. The transfer of custody of investments from 5/3 Bank to PNC Bank was completed in April. The annual audit began May 18 and was conducted entirely remotely. The final report by Clark Shaefer Hackett was presented at the July vestry meeting. The 2021 budget process proceeded virtually through the summer with budget managers completing goal worksheets for their respective programs. The 2021 budget was approved in the December Vestry meeting after funding questions were resolved.

Contact was made with the Rev. David Getreu, Associate for Financial Management and Oversight of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, to discuss ways the cathedral’s Finance Department might collaborate to assist other churches in the Diocese by providing guidance and sharing good practice ideas. This is the final year of the five-year 3CV Capital Campaign. To wrap everything up, letters were sent to all those who pledged, whether fully paid or those with a remaining balance. The intent was to thank those who have made donations and to encourage those with balances to make final payments prior to year-end. We received $245,182 in 3CV pledges through the end of December, putting us at 91% of 2020’s projection of $268,835. Additional 3CV pledges of $25,000 are expected to be received by the end of February. CCC successfully applied for a SBA Paycheck Protection Plan loan through PNC bank. Paperwork will be submitted for loan forgiveness when the PNC forgiveness application portal opened in January 2021. Collaboration The combined CCC and DSO staff met on March 3 to review where we are with the collaboration and to talk about what is working and what needs to change. There was some great discussion and ideas will be reviewed to plan for beyond the pandemic. Sarah Hartwig worked with Julie Murray, Associate Communications Director of DSO, to edit and design the Regathering Guidelines published by the Diocese. Dr. Casurella, the Rev. Canon Leo, Carine de Lange, and Andrea Owens assisted with developing and updating COVID-19 worship guidelines. Dr. Stephan Casurella developed COVID-19 Safe Singing Guidelines, which were shared with DSO congregations through the website and eConnections. A virtual choir led by Dr. Casurella was a huge success.

The COVID-19 signage created by the CCC and DSO Communications teams was posted online for all congregations to use. These resources were also printed and included in the As We Begin to Gather care packages sent to parishes throughout the Diocese. The cathedral hosted the 2020 Diocesan virtual convention on November 7. Bishop Breidenthal’s address to the 146th annual convention was filmed in the nave. Morning and evening prayers were also streamed from the cathedral.

20 Connect the Dots Initiative: visitors from throughout the Diocese were encouraged to experience the cathedral’s liturgical and music programs. Once the pandemic prohibited in-person visits, many people checked into the CCC streamed resources. Sole Clinic sneaker distribution and foot washing usually held before Easter was postponed due to pandemic safety restrictions. Members of the 5000 Club were remeasured and existing stock was re-inventoried and augmented in the Fall, and sneakers and fresh socks were distributed. The Rothenberg School backpack project was held for the third year. This year we were unable to purchase from our usual partner Crayons to Computers because they did not have enough stock. Due to COVID-19 the CCC community was not invited to donate items. Instead, Interim Dean Leo and Bishop Breidenthal authorized funds for the school supplies. CCC and DSO staff volunteers packed 150 backpacks for students and 40 Gift bags for teachers, which were delivered in September as the school was reopening. Parkway Place gift bags were packed by staff and delivered to 70 residents of Central Parkway Place in December. Cleaning and personal care products were donated by staff. Matching sets of hats, gloves and scarves were provided by CCC. 5000 Club gift bags were packed by staff and distributed in December. CCC donated hand warmers, matching sets of warm hats, gloves and scarves, socks, candy and snacks, and personal care products.

The cathedral Outreach Committee donated $25,000 to the Diocese COVID-19 Financial Aid Task Force to assist congregations financially throughout the Diocese of Southern Ohio during these turbulent times. Respectfully submitted, Carine de Lange, Operations Executive

21 2020 SPECIAL GIFTS AND BEQUEST

Calendar Year 2020 None

Calendar Year 2019 None

Calendar Year 2018 The Estate of Alfred Lippert------General Endowment

Calendar Year 2017 The Estate of Phyllis Hopple------Cincinnati Scholar House The Estate of Betty Johnson------Cincinnati Scholar House The Estate of Robert LaShelle------Music The Estate of Philip Osborn------General Endowment Luther Charitable Foundation------Third Century Vision Capital Campaign

Calendar Year 2016 Doris M. Smith------General Endowment

Calendar Year 2014 Virginia Bohn Trust------General Endowment The Estate of Compton Allyn------General Endowment Wodecroft Foundation------Cathedral Organ Fund Allyn Family Foundation------Cathedral Organ Fund

Calendar Year 2013 Wodecroft Foundation------Organ Development Fund Anonymous------Organ Development Fund Luther Charitable Foundation------Boar’s Head

Calendar Year 2012 Wodecroft Foundation------Organ Development Fund

Calendar Year 2011 The Estate of Alice Tyler------General Endowment The Estate of Irene Kennedy Taylor------General Endowment

Calendar Year 2010 The Estate of Anna Marie Evans------Cathedral Library The Estate of Anna Marie Evans------Altar Guild The Estate of Betty Gillespie------Unrestricted Charles A. & Carole C. Kehrer Family Trust------Unrestricted F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation------Purchase of Continuo Organ The Estate of Margaret Ohanian------Music Mission Fund Endowment Wodecraft Foundation------Organ Development Fund

Calendar Year 2009 The Estate of Rosemary Frey Rogers------Frank H. Nelson Fund The Estate of Smith Hickenlooper------General Endowment Fund The Estate of Virginia Hickenlooper------General Endowment Fund Girl’s Friendly Society------Boar’s Head Girl’s Friendly Society------General Endowment Fund The Estate of Virginia Worthington------Unrestricted Wodecroft Foundation------Organ Development Fund

22 2020 STATEMENT OF OPERATIONAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES

2021 2020 2020* BUDGET BUDGET ACTUAL REVENUES Pledges & Donations $ 436,300 $ 504,800 $ 524,105 Misc. Program Income 6,900 25,950 374,426 Facility Usage Fees 0 5,000 1,425 Endowment Draw (Operating) 3,337,892 3,698,499 2,886,804

TOTAL REVENUES $ 3,781,092 $ 4,234,249 $ 3,786,760

EXPENDITURES Administrative & Technology $ 251,306 $ 337,300 $ 226,307 Adult Ed/Hospitality/Consortium 80,600 125,800 41,787 Altar Guild 4,550 8,000 1,722 Boar's Head 15,000 26,000 30,341 Buildings & Grounds/Nelson Mem 263,691 263,483 253,246 Camp & Youth 65,500 65,500 45,000 Children & Family Ministry 11,100 11,360 11,211 Communications (PR) 87,100 97,800 83,406 Diocesan Assessments 490,000 498,454 463,155 Flower Guild 10,600 19,850 4,733 Libraries 1,950 2,500 348 Liturgical 13,450 19,400 11,449 Music 145,362 166,860 147,479 Native American Mission 93,800 93,800 82,677 Outreach & Seminary Support 419,600 393,333 386,066 Salaries & Benefits 1,784,483 2,047,159 1,975,042 Stewardship 13,300 18,500 9,329 Welcome Ministry/Pastoral Care 15,400 22,450 3,826 Youth Group & Church School 14,300 16,700 9,636

TOTAL EXPENDITURES $ 3,781,092 $ 4,234,249 $ 3,786,760

REVENUES OVER/ (UNDER) EXPENDITURES $0 $0 $0

* unaudited revenues and expenses as of 2/2/2021 ** includes PPP Loan proceeds of $356,900

23 2020 STATEMENT OF CAPITAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES

2020 2020 Budget Actual DRAWS Endowment Draws/Loan Proceeds $ 955,211 $ 915,916 Capital Campaign Pledge received 268,835 245,182 Other Gifts/Income 0 4,320 $ 1,224,046 $ 1,165,418

Pledges and Other Income Collected-To-Date $ 3,475,156

EXPENDITURES Third Century Vision (3CV) Projects Scholar House $ 250,000 $ 250,000 Nave Organ & Remodel 559,846 166,359 Chapel Remodel/Organ/Garden 95,365 10,648 3CV Total 2020 $ 905,211 $ 427,007

OTHER CAPITAL PROJECTS Parish House Masonry Parapet Repair $ 40,000 $ - Roof Repairs 60,000 0 Sidewalk Repairs 0 23,030 Other Capital Projects Total 2020 $ 100,000 $ 23,030

Total 2020 Capital Expenditures $ 1,005,211 $ 450,037

3CV Project Expenditures-To-Date $ 12,094,933

DEBT SERVICE Principal $ 562,330 $ 535,529 Loan Interest 152,342 124,322 Total Debt Service for 2020 $ 714,672 $ 659,851

Loan Balance at December 31, 2020 $ 3,420,725

24 2020 EXPENDITURES IN MISSION FORMAT

Pastoral Care Christian Formation 2% 8%

Worship and Music 25% Outreach 18% Outreach 17%

Facilities 12%

Community Life 16% Communications & Administration 19%

Pastoral Care Worship and Music Community Life Communications & Administration Facilities Outreach Christian Formation

CATEGORIES Pastoral Care$ 83,461 Worship and Music$ 947,791 Community Life $ 623,145 Communications & Administration$ 720,612 Facilities$ 440,954 Outreach $ 667,178 Christian Formation$ 303,619 $ 3,786,760

25 2021 PLEDGE APPRECIATION Drew Abbott & Robert DiMartino Mary Grover Ethan Nichols Gloria Abernathy Phil & Mary Hagner Stephen & Lynn Okel Denny Alcorn Virginius Hall George Patrick & Emily Boswell Cecile Allyn Dennis Harrell Michael Pelgen & Troy May Susan Anuforo Chuck & Betsy Harris John & Frances Pepper Adabelle Ashley-Foster Dale Harris and Alexander Watson Mike Phillips Merrilee Atkins Sarah Hartwig Mike & Sandy Porada Keith & Margaret Baldwin Corny & Janet Hauck Holly Pratt & Cecilia Pratt Ruth Bamberger Pat Haug Roxanne Qualls Gratia Banta Neil & Sue Heighberger David & Leslie Quattrone Marja Barrett Michael & Mary Henrickson Blake Racer Thornton Bartlett George & Amy Hill III Brooke Reidy Merelyn Bates-Mims Sue Hoel Paula Rose Jeff & Laurel Bauer Billie Houston Michael Rouse Jean Beck Hyman, Jr. Kathy Sackett Bob & Judy Beiring Abie Ingber Connie Sanders Jon & Linda Berger Ted & Anne Jaroszewicz Mary Anne Sanders Beth Boatright Quinton Jefferson Nick Sargen Michael Bootes Mark & Sarah Johnson Shirley Schooler Richard Boydston Jack & Kathy Jose Vicky Schooler Sue Brammer Brianna Kelly Thomas Schuck Paula Brickler Tom & Jenny Kent Bill Scrivener & Susan Pace Prince & Elizabeth Brown, Jr. Julie Kline Paula Sears Amy Brubaker Martin & Lisa Koepke Bob & Brenda Shawver Doug & Dawn Bruestle Barbara Koerner Andy & Nikki Shenk Sammie Bubel Dan Lakamp & Dan Shirley Vestal & Julieta Simms-Howell, Sr. Ed & Carole Burdell Don Lane & Matt Dunn Ron Slone Tom & Meg Burrows Charles & Jean Lauterbach Karen Smith Dianne Butler Susan Lehman & John Dalzell Matthew & Cyndi Smith Martha Camele Suzann Parker Leist Eric Soderlund & Matt Shad Chris Carey Steve & Lisa Lemen Warren Solar, Jr. Dan Carlson & Kim Taylor Patsy Leo Jerry Stein Stephan & Rae Casurella Roger & Berta Lerch Roy Steiner & Jane Page-Steiner Tom & Cindy Cecil Kelsey Linder Tucker & Andrea Stone Bill & Judy Chamberlain Carl Rhodes & Lori Luchtman-Jones Gina Strohm Joel Chanvisanuruk & Stephen Yandell Carol Lyon Karen Taylor Chris & Nancy Christensen Bobbie Lyons Douglas & Kay Thompson Alicia Clark Mark Mahoney David Thomson Kathleen Cox Scott Malone & Judith Robinson Roger & Rita Thoney Pat Coyle, Jr Michael Maloney John Treacy & Roland Ficke John & Sandra Crawford, Jr. George Marshall Michael Unger Yvonne & Madison Cuffy Janet McDaniel Kyle & Melissa Vath Patrick Daffin Bernie McKay & Zack Weber Tony & Suzanne Walch Bruno & Carolyn De Palma Jesse & Rachel McKnight Harolyn Walker Joseph Julnes & Noel Julnes-Dehner Frank & Janna McWilliams Brad Walsh & Sherry Glover Jeffrey Dey Brandon & Claire Mello Kevin Walzer & Lori Jareo Robert & Gretchen Dinerman Tom Milbery C.K. & Shirley Wang Malcolm & Priscilla Dunn Thom & Roberta Miles Olden Warren & Sheila Hill Cheryl Eagleson John & Ellen Miller Christopher Wheeler Peter & Dianne Ebbs Karen Montagno Gregory Williams Kathyrn Elsnau Kim Montgomery Paul Williams & Larry Hayes Marjorie Fox John & Karen Moreland Charmienne Willmoth Mike & Barbara Gehrig Douglas & Donna Mullins Tom & Barbara Winshurst Steve Gerdsen Sarah-Theresa Y. Murakami Mary Lynn Woebkenberg & Lexie Bopp John & Chris Gillespie Denis Murphy & Nancy Woodburn Pat Groth Yvonne Schrotel-Murphy Bill & Carol Woods James Murray Roland & Dona Young Christ Church Cathedral Annual Pledge Campaign Results *

Pledge Year Number of Pledges Number of New Amount Average Pledge Pledges 2021 166 4 $352,570 $2,124 2020 201 14 $449,655 $2,237 2019 198 16 $423,377 $2,138 2018 191 13 $422,065 $2,210

* Figures updated to include pledges received after year end 26 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the Christ Church Cathedral Endowment Funds Year Ending December 31, 2020

During calendar year 2020, we adjusted our policy to being invested approximately 85% in equities and alternative investments, which produced a 12.5% return for the year. This was considerably above the Custom Benchmark Index of 6.3%, which is comprised of US and International equities, alternative investments, and a fixed income component. During 2020, the cathedral withdrew $4,386,159 from the General Endowment Fund to support the cathedral budget, of which $2,810,892 was used for operating purposes, $587,356 for debt service, capital and 3CV projects, and $250,000 for Scholar House. (In 2019, the cathedral withdrew a total of $7,261,611 from the Endowment.) After 2020 withdrawals, the market value of the endowment at year-end 2020 stood at approximately $95.5 million vs. $89.6 million at the year end 2019.

General Endowment Fund

2020 2019 2018

Principal Market Value $95,535,697 $89,616,618 $78,849,038

Gross Income Before Charges $1,228,293 $1,947,258 $1,383,012

Net Total Return 12.5% 23.8% -5.3%

Ensign Harry James Coombe Fund

2020 2019 2018

Principal Market Value $34,003,497 $28,520,317 $22,045,810

Gross Income Before Charges $394,105 $401,532 $346,870

Net Total Return 22.4% 34.4% 0.3%

During calendar year 2020 the Trustees contracted with a new investment advisor, Associates, using an “OCIO” approach with discretionary investment authority. Cambridge will invest the endowment funds based upon the cathedral’s “Investment Policy Statement” as set by the Trustees, which incorporates “Socially Responsible Investing” to guide the Investment Managers on these issues.

Endowment Trustees: Stephen F. Gerdsen, Chair Janna U. McWilliams, Vice Chair John R. Gillespie, Treasurer & Secretary Joseph J. Dehner Donald Lane Cornelius W. Hauck

27 SLATE OF NOMINEES

SENIOR WARDEN (Voting for one one-year term—2022) Michael Henrickson

JUNIOR WARDEN (Voting for one one-year term—2022) Mary R. Grover

TRUSTEE OF THE ENDOWMENT FUND (Voting for one five-year term—2026) Donald Lane

VESTRY MEMBERS (Voting for four three-year terms) Michael Bootes Sue Brammer Patrick Daffin Quinton Jefferson Paula Rose Robert Shawver Michael Unger Kyle Vath

DELEGATES TO THE 2021 DIOCESAN CONVENTION (Voting for two one-year terms) Denny Alcorn Ellen Gerard Troy May Ethan Nichols Blake Racer

2021 NOMINATING COMMITTEE (Voting for two two-year terms) Emily Boswell Robert DiMartino Kelsey Linder Gregory Williams

28 ROTATING VESTRY EXPIRATION DATE ROSTER

WARDENS Michael Henrickson (Senior Warden) 2021 Mary Grover (Junior Warden) 2021

VESTRY Quinton Jefferson (2021) Jean Lauterbach (2021)

Frank McWilliams (2021) Michael Pelgen (2021) Matt Dunn (2022) John Gillespie (2022) Dan Lakamp (2022) Julieta Simms (2022) Drew Abbott (2023) Elizabeth Brown (2023) Jack Jose (2023) Ethan Nichols (2023) Mary Lynn Woebkenberg (2023)

29 (p/t) Vacant Sandy Porada Sandy Sarah Hartwig Margo Nelms Crystal Jones Crystal and and sexton (p/t) Friday Friday Desk Front Director Director of IT (40/60) Weekend desk Front Weekend Bishop’s Office Administrative Support Administrative Director Director of Communications Carine Lange Carine de Sexton Operations Executive (50/50) Madeline Sartor Madeline (50/50) Jean Beck Controller Kathy Noe Kathy to the Dean Bookkeeper Judy Hering Matt Hornsby Andrea Owens Executive Assistant Executive Administrative Assistant Assistant Administrative Director of Facilities (70/30) Director of Facilities Sexton Marvin Williams Stipendiary Stipendiary - - Non Non Associates Priest Honorary Canons Dean - (p/t) Sub FEBRUARY 2021 FEBRUARY Paul Williams Paul The Canon Rev. The Stipendiary Stipendiary – – Scrivener Wiseman The Rev. William William Rev. The Jason Leo Non Non Cathedral Deacon Cathedral Non Non Pastoral Pastoral Care The Marshall Rev. The Associate Canon Canon Associate for Deacon in Residence in Deacon Interim Dean Interim ORGANIZATIONAL CHART ORGANIZATIONAL The Rev. Stacey Stacey Rev. The Sands The Canon Rev. The CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHRIST Pat Phelan Pat Nursery (p/t)Nursery Ministries Director ofDirector Open position Nursery (p/t)Nursery Brooklin Taylor Ericka Williams Ericka Fresh Expressions Director of Family (p/t) Vestry Music Wheeler of Music Associate Christopher Christopher Youth (p/t) Youth Shiloh Roby Musician for Children and Administrator Douglas Bruestle Douglas Music Choir members Associate Director Director Associate Casurella Dr. Stephan Dr. Stephan and ofDirector and Canon Precentor Canon

30 COMMITTEE REPORTS

ARCHIVIST Dennis Harrell, Archivist With the cathedral being closed for most of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the primary work in the archives was to reorganize files and documents to make them more easily accessible for research. There were inquiries from various sources—both within and outside the cathedral family— seeking information on such topics as the old Christ Church Burying Grounds and the formation of the Missions Fund. As I do each year, I ask members of the congregation to go through old files, pictures, notes, etc., pertaining to activities at the cathedral, and consider donating them to the archives before throwing such things away. Such items can either be donated to the archives for permanent preservation and storage or loaned for the purpose of scanning. *** BOAR’S HEAD AND FESTIVAL Anne Jaroszewicz, Co-Director COVID-19 changed lots of things at Christ Church Cathedral last year, including how we went about presenting our 81st Annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. For the first time in our history we were not able to do Boar’s Head as a live performance. Fortunately for us, our lighting director, Trevor Shibley had made a video recording of last year’s performance, which was quite good. Taken from the vantage point of his perch up in the choir loft, and using just one microphone, the recording captured the richness of the pageant below, as well as the magnificent music from the orchestra, the choir, and the choir soloists. What it didn’t capture well were the soloists singing from the front of the church. Our team (Bob Beiring, Stephan Casurella, Doug Bruestle, Ron Thomas, and me) put our heads together to come up with ways to address these audio issues as well as to enhance the video experience to make it more viewer-friendly and accessible. We knew we would have to re-record all the altar soloists and then “over-dub” the new recordings with the old so as not to lose the orchestral music supporting each singer. This meant singers had to match their new recordings with the old video—in essence, “lip sync” to the video. Other improvements we thought of, were, adding a short illustrated explanation of the tradition and history of the Boar’s Head, and a synopsis of the scenes and symbolism represented; and recording a new welcome by our Interim Dean, the Rev. Jason Leo, explaining our COVID-19 response. Before we could do any of this, however, we needed to get permission from our musicians’ union to use the video footage at all. The video was made to mark the lighting cues for Trevor and his team, and not for broad public distribution. Fortunately, the union kindly gave us permission, and we were able to make all the additions mentioned above. The virtual Boar’s Head experience opened at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 2, 2021 and was available until midnight on January 3. This was the weekend we would have presented Boar’s Head live had it not been for COVID-19. It was viewed by more than 2,100 households, some from as far away as Ontario, Canada and Amsterdam. The feedback we got from social media as well as from our own Christ Church Cathedral community was overwhelming.

31 In the words of CCC member and Boar’s Head chorister, Berta Lerch, “A short note to say thank you for the performance of Boar’s Head this weekend, for me, was a true gift. It gave me a chance to see the intricacies throughout the performance, that are missed as we sing and watch Stephan for cues and direction. I have an even greater appreciation for every little detail that goes into the meaningful performance. Yes, in person is the best and most exciting/emotional, but this year’s gift is greatly appreciated too…” Our Boar’s Head Team is so grateful to so many for making this year’s virtual experience possible. To Trevor and his foresight, to Ron Thomas whose technical wizardry enabled the audio track to be heard, to Stephan Casurella and Doug Bruestle for rounding up all the soloists for re-recording; for the soloists themselves for making the time to get it done; for the entire cast, crew, orchestra, and choir from 2020 who created such a perfect performance last year, and to the musicians’ union for graciously allowing us to share the video with the public. Thank you one and all. We look forward to seeing all of you in person down at the cathedral, on New Year’s Day, 2022 for a live performance of our Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival, and for a reunion of our Boar’s Head family. *** BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Matt Shad, Chair The committee continued on course through 2020, serving on an ad-hoc basis during the pandemic and limited mostly in a facility maintenance review capacity. The most extensive work at the cathedral, the third and final of the Third Century Vision capital projects, (the Nave Organ and associated improvements managed via special project committee), was effectively drawing to a close by year’s end. Special thanks to David Thomson for his countless additional hours participating on that project from 2018-2020. The work of committee members in 2020 was focused almost exclusively on two significant facilities evaluations. The first was analysis of need when the right of refusal option was presented to the cathedral for the purchase of 322 East Fourth Street. Committee members met on numerous occasions within the course of about three months, diligently and thoughtfully evaluating the priorities of the congregation, the opportunities for collaboration with the diocese, and the effectiveness of the building. After determining that significant changes to the building were not cost effective, and through interviews, ascertained that the existing space did not align well with current facility demand expectations, the committee recommended to the vestry to relinquish the right to purchase the building. The property was purchased by an affiliate of Western and Southern on December 22, 2020 for $1,100,000. The committee also was requested to evaluate the opportunity to work in collaboration with the diocese on a project known as Solarize Ohio. The project was considering a contract with a third party to generate solar energy from the roofs of the cathedral and diocesan offices, as well as dozens of other churches and diocesan properties. After analysis of the solar capacity at the cathedral was evaluated, and the contract terms submitted, the committee recommended to the vestry that our particularly property did not lend itself to participate in the effort, particularly given the limited energy supply that could be provided. Of special note, in conjunction with the Ohio History Connection, Christ Church Cathedral celebrated our over 200-year history as a downtown church with the installation of an historical marker on June 9, 2020. The marker is installed on the northeast corner of Fourth and Sycamore Streets. Our sincere thanks to Suzann Parker Leist with her continued and singular pursuit to complete this project.

32 The committee recognized that now major projects are effectively completed on the campus, it was important to again prioritize the systematic and routine maintenance of the facilities, requesting the vestry pursue roof replacement for the Parish House in 2021. Finally, the work of the recently completed Next Century Vision process, as well as the recent COVID-19 crisis, illustrated that post pandemic, the way we potentially use our facilities could be impacted in new unforeseen ways. Thus, the committee acknowledged that careful study of space utilization mindful of the Next Century Vision recommendations will be a focus of our endeavors in the next one to two years. Our budget remained on track with our utilities again being well within expectations. Orchestrated by our Director of Facilities, Matt Hornsby, we closed out major projects and effectively managed staff through the many challenges of using our facilities while meeting our ever-changing COVID-19 safety requirements to allow congregants to come together. We thank all the facility staff for their patience and their commitment to our community. Finally, thanks to all the committee members serving during the year included: Ed Burdell, Patrick Daffin, Carine de Lange, Matthew Dunn, Matt Hornsby, Martin Koepke, Frank McWilliams, Matthew Shad, and David Thomson. *** CAMPING AND YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES Mark J. Mahoney, Chair The work of the Camping and Youth Opportunities Committee is an important and fulfilling part of Christ Church Cathedral. It provides the opportunity to invest in young people who enthusiastically go from pews to life-enhancing experiences near home, and at times abroad. It is not always understood that the committee does not administer ongoing programs or make distributions that satisfy budgetary items, rather, it annually makes educational and recreational grants to applicants based on merit, need, and available funds. The cathedral’s history with camping started in the 1930’s on Bass Island on the Little Miami River near Newtown. It continued in the 1950’s at Lakeside Ohio on Lake Erie. In the late 1950’s, Judge Robert Marx (think Playhouse Theatre), a Jewish former member of Christ Church Cathedral Boy’s Club, gave us his 100-acre hunting spread near Felicity, Ohio for a summer youth camp. We developed and ran that camp for 25 years to benefit our parish members’ children and inner-city children. The proceeds from the subsequent sale of that camp to the YMCA, and the consolidation of other camping and youth activities bequests, have resulted in an endowed fund overseen and administered by the committee. Unfortunately, youth activities were limited this year due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, the committee thought it important in instances where camping did not occur to still provide some grant funding to support ongoing administrative needs. The following is a summary of committee activity for 2020: • The committee continued our long tradition of supporting camping at the Diocesan Procter Camp ($2,500) and YMCA Camp Ernst ($3,000). • Summer Reading Camp was sponsored ($6,000). This six-week reading program helps underachieving students from low-income families improve their reading; and readies them for successful learning. • Camp Joy, a United Way affiliated agency, was supported ($2,500). • Consistent with our practice for over 25 years, we provided college scholarships to Christ Church Cathedral family youth. 13 students were awarded scholarships ($31,000 total). We look forward to the opportunities that 2021 will bring. *** 33 CATHEDRAL IN THE PARK Judy Beiring Cathedral in the Park didn’t happen this past summer due to the pandemic. *** COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT Sarah Hartwig, Director WHAT A YEAR. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk about all of the ways in which the communications department was able to support the cathedral’s programming in a time where one week looks nothing like the one before it. Sunday, March 8, 2020, was our last “normal” day of worship service offerings, and of all services, truly. Once it was clear that we would not be able to safely gather in person, the real work began to identify ways to continue to not only bring worship to our community, but to keep our community connected to one another. With live streaming capabilities already in place for our Sunday 10:00 a.m. service and The Noon Service, efforts were underway to do the same for our 8:00 a.m. service. Bulletins that were normally in hand were made available online, where people could use them to follow along with service online. Friday Noon Day Prayer was quickly made available on a Facebook Live hosted by the Rev. Paul B. Williams. Outdoor services received support with external signage and radio spots inviting people to join us masked and safely distanced. In tandem with online worship, music offerings were quickly translated in much the same way. One of the crown jewels being the first-time ever online offering of The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival, which ran January 2 and 3, with more than 2,100 views! We also started early—on March 19, 2020, to be exact—recording and pushing out daily videos to our community to stay connected. These two- to five-minute daily videos delivered by email initially were offered by cathedral clergy and staff; with their popularity, the presenters grew to include diocesan clergy as well. Ultimately, we invited members of our community to share their thoughts during this time, and by the time this series concluded on July 31, 2020, the communications department had produced ONE HUNDRED AND NINE daily videos! (For our data lovers out there, the average open rate was between 34.4 and 41.6%, which is remarkable!) Throughout the pandemic, we have made every effort to communicate to our community and the general public the ways in which they can safely join us. This looks like event postings on all of our social media channels for worship and programs like Music Live at Lunch. For our larger, more ambitious schedules—like Christmas—events were packaged up and sent out to all local media. This translated to online interviews with local stations to explain and invite people to our offerings, and cathedral offerings being added to online search via local events calendars. Add to this the news stories we pitched—and were picked up—like the incredible ongoing work of the 5000 Club.

34 Our website continues to be updated to not only reflect our week to week events and gathering status, but also to support the current dean search. Resources and accessibility to dean search information was added to our home page (cincinnaticathedral.com), and includes the parish profile. (Take a look if you haven’t already!) All of the cathedral’s social media channels are continually updated with current messaging and content that reflects the ethos of our mission and that of The Episcopal Church. This looks like a mix of cathedral events, feel-good stories, music pieces, and helpful community information (i.e. COVID-19 testing sites, local free food distributions, health and wellness options during this time). While no one could have predicted the year we have just had, nor the one to come, I can offer that the cathedral shows no sign of slowing down while we await a new normal. Rather, we continue to adapt and pivot—and get very creative!—to continue to be the hands and feet of God at this time. As followers of Jesus, we are called to step out in faith. Right now this means leaving behind doing things the way we were used to, the way we were comfortable with. By doing so, we can continue to learn, witness, and work. In this way, I see these times as an opportunity to serve even more fully, and to offer the cathedral’s ongoing message of ministry to the world. *** COMMUNITY ISSUES FORUM Ed Burdell and Bill Woods, chairs The Community Issues Forum completed its 39th year of providing forums in August, and it launched its 40th year in September. Established as a program that reflects the commitment of this downtown cathedral to the public life of the city, the Forum features presentations on important local issues. A particular focus of the Forum is to address questions of social, economic, and political justice. Scheduled every other Thursday from September to June, Forums begin at noon and are open to the public with no reservations required. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the Forum schedule in 2020. No Forums took place from mid-March until late May. Reformatted utilizing Zoom, Forums began again on May 28 and continued on a regular basis until December 7. This format continues in 2021 until effective control of the virus makes it safe to again hold forums at the cathedral. Success in 2020 19 Forums (five sessions at the cathedral and 14 via Zoom) took place in 2020. Diverse topics such as Cincinnati’s affordable housing crisis, the case for a public transit levy, the development of a neighborhood agenda for equitable development, emergency housing for the homeless during the pandemic, City and County budget issues, planning Public School education options during the pandemic, the increased work of services such as the Freestore Foodbank during the pandemic, local responses to the need for police reform, potential voting issues in Ohio this fall, the role of the religious community in community service and advocacy work, an initiative underway to provide revenue for the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and presentations by Congressional candidates and candidates for County offices were featured. Speakers included the Executive Director of MARCC, two Cincinnati City Council members, the Director of the Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio, the President of the Hamilton County Commissioners, two members of the Cincinnati School Board, the Executive Director of the Greater

35 Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, the Canon Missioner of Christ Church Cathedral, two Program Directors of the Freestore Foodbank, the City Health Commissioner, the Director of Common Cause Ohio, the Education Coordinator of the Peaslee Neighborhood Center, the Coordinator of the Cincinnati Educational Justice Coalition, and candidates for Congress and various Hamilton County offices. The Forum continued to benefit in 2020 from the involvement and insights of the Forum Planning Committee that includes five members of the cathedral (Prince Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Michelle Dillingham, Tom Kent, and Karen Montagno), and two community leaders (the Director of the Interfaith Workers Center and the recent President of the Woman’s City Club). Sarah B. Hartwig, the cathedral’s Director of Communications, attends most meetings and provides invaluable assistance in getting the word out about the Forums including spots on WVXU. In 2020, Forum planners continued to collaborate with other community groups and organizations in planning and sponsoring events. When possible, the Forum will also venture to other community sites such as the Peaslee Neighborhood Center. In terms of other ways The Forums can be viewed or read about, segments of every Forum were filmed, and ten minute programs can be viewed on the cathedral and AIR, Inc. websites. Articles on the Forums also appear regularly in StreetVibes. Besides the thirty-plus people that participated in each Forum this past year, hundreds of others have gone on-line to view and hear portions of these presentations. For further information call Ed Burdell or Bill Woods at 513-381-4994. *** DOCENT REPORT Dennis Harrell The cathedral docents normally lead tours of the cathedral on the first Sunday of the month and at other scheduled times for special groups. Obviously, these offerings were not available after the cathedral cancelled live services for most of the year due to the coronavirus. Hopefully, they can resume when conditions are proper. Any members—old or new—who are interested in becoming a docent or have ideas for new or specialized tours in the coming year are encouraged to contact either myself or Suzann Parker Leist. *** EPISCOPAL NETWORK FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE Steven Simpkins, ENEJ Secretary and Administrator The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice (ENEJ) experienced a few changes in 2020. The first of which being the retirement of staff person Michael Maloney of Cincinnati, Ohio and subsequent hiring of Steven Simpkins of Tiffin, Ohio. ENEJ also changed presidents because Dianne Aid’s term expired. The Rev. Geoffrey Curtiss is the active president while Dianne continues to serve on the board as immediate past president. Past president Michael Kendall resigned and retired in October 2020. At the 2020 ENEJ annual meeting Dianne Aid received the Hugh White Worker Justice Advocacy Award for her past and ongoing service to immigrant workers and her commitment to writing convention resolutions and issue papers advocating for worker justice issues. Also at the annual meeting Michael Maloney was awarded the Michael Bryant Award to recognize his commitment of volunteer service to ENEJ.

36 In 2020 ENEJ received financial contributions from 19 dioceses across the Episcopal Church. ENEJ released a handful of resources in 2020. ENEJ, in conjunction with The Episcopal Networks Collaborative helped produce a voter issue guide for 2020 titled Vote for Justice. ENEJ also assisted the Episcopal Networks Collaborative’s General Convention Task Force in releasing an interim report on the implementation of Social Justice Resolutions of the 79th General Convention. Michael Maloney and Sue Lloyd were instrumental in creating an updated Community Investing Resources Directory. ENEJ as a member of the Lectionary Project released Reflections on St. Francis’ of the Creatures. The lectionary project also aided in the creation of the aforementioned Voter Issue Guide in 2020. ENEJ began creating provincial networks for information sharing and advocacy related to Economic Justice; at the end of 2020 networks were in early formation in Provinces I, III, and V. ENEJ remains a member of The Consultation. *** FAMILY MINISTRY Brooklyn Taylor, Director With the transformation of the Family Ministries Department, we have sought to create and facilitate existing and new spaces of intentionality around the full and safe inclusion of the family unit. Family Ministries has focused on providing intergenerational integration into our worshiping spaces (with a specific focus on The Noon Service where many of our active families are found), family- centered community ministry and education. In times of social distancing and isolation, Family Ministries has sought to be creative in its endeavors to engage families as the foremost unit of spiritual formation for their children. Thus, we have created the Community Boxes and Zines to be sent out to every registered family active in the cathedral community. These boxes are meant to be an invitation into the participation of the life of the church and correspond closely with the Noon Service theme and liturgical calendar. They are filled with resources for families to easily talk about their faith, thematic original artwork, the weekly passage, reflection and discussion questions, hand-crafted coloring books, corresponding games, recipes, and activities. They have become a tool of engagement and connection for the families of the cathedral. Additionally, these tools have been picked up by the broader diocesan formation community. We are now developing a collaborative process to create them and make them available to the entire diocese. They are currently being utilized to lead an online small group as well as resourcing churches across southern Ohio. A reimagined Advent Village went underway this year as well. As bags filled with Advent Wreath ingredients were packed with love of the Noon Service Community and distributed to the greater cathedral community. We are now continuing to experiment on ways to further integrate families into our communities and looking forward to the newness that is to come. A big thanks to all who have helped make these trying times more beautiful. ***

37 5000 CLUB Mike Bootes, Chair 2020 was a year like no other for all of us. For the 5000 Club it was a tale of a year of two parts. On the third Tuesday of the year we suffered the loss of one of our most loyal and long-term volunteers when Chuck Ellman collapsed as we prepared to serve dinner and died later that night adding to the list of losses suffered by our tight-knit group of workers. For the first 10 weeks we continued with our Tuesday evening gatherings in the undercroft (and occasionally the chapel) with an average attendance of 143 with a high of 185 on February 25 and a low of 90 on February 4. For those 10 weeks life continued as we have known it and volunteers continued to appear with about 20 people putting in about 40 total hours each week. The gatherings continued to feature evening prayer service, Friends social services, Cancer Justice Network navigators and a thankfully little-utilized police officer. Chef Marcus and his Cincinnati COOKS students continued to prepare the famously generous and tasty meals. With all the commotion we didn’t know how good we had it.

For the week of March 17, the cathedral was closed. There was a scramble for permissions, supplies, and logistics to meet our commitment to continue as Foy Knierim would have wanted. With the help and renewed participation of the cathedral administration we switched to all carry-out and did not miss a beat, setting up a somewhat distanced assembly line in the north corridor, ushering guests into the narthex one-at-a-time to grab a bag and exit the west end of the corridor. We were even inspired to offer an Easter Sunday brunch which brought 59 guests to the door. Meals delivered to the street increased from an average of nine before COVID-19 to 13 after we went all carry-out. Attendance dropped to 55 on March 24 and fluctuated for the next 42 weeks from a low of 55 several times to a high of 137 on September 22. The Freestore Foodbank closed the COOKS program and Derrek Dickey and his family, who had been our substitute cooks, stepped up and became our reliable exclusive cooks. It took only about 10 brave and cautious volunteers to serve all carry-out putting in a total of about 20 hours of work each week. As has always been the case, about half of the volunteers were there virtually every week, including Sub-Dean Paul Williams who has not missed a beat, with a changeable group filling out the balance in almost mystically sufficient numbers with no scheduling or cajoling. Our continued service inspired occasional treats, periodic supplies of cloth masks, a truncated sole clinic offering of shoes and socks, a bag of winter supplies, and several financial donations to help our budget. It became apparent that many of our pre-pandemic guests had joined us for the comradery of the undercroft (random numbers notwithstanding) rather than raw need and chose not to partake of our carry-out offerings. There was a palpable loss of contact with our guests but no doubt of the thankfulness of those who have continued to file through. With the loss of Freestore Foodbank donations, the addition of packaging supplies and a token payment to Derrek, our total costs rose to an average of $6.44 per meal. As the health crisis consumed the world it was more apparent than ever that the 5000 Club is not the main source of nutrition for our guests but does offer a special, complete, generous meal once a week to many of our most disadvantaged neighbors. Never has it been more apparent that we maintain an important and welcoming resource for them and a fulfillment of the mission of the cathedral. The overall numbers include a total of 5,299 guests and 628 meals-to-the-streets made possible by about 1,260 volunteer hours; well worth the effort judged by the heartfelt thank you’s and blessings we hear every week as we continue in our 15th year. *** 38 FLOWER GUILD Susan Pace, Chair The Christ Church Cathedral Flower Guild supplied beautiful arrangements for the cathedral through mid-March when the whole world ground to a halt. Many of our members are in high-risk categories so we have moved ahead carefully since then. We have worked closely with the clergy and staff to provide arrangements for in-person services and, when possible, for on-line worship as well. We had planned to initiate our partnership with Cincinnati Scholar House in the spring and work with the residents to plant, grow, maintain, and harvest flowers, vegetables, herbs, and fruits at the Cincinnati Scholar House property. Though our intention had been to begin in the spring, like so many things, that was put on hold until we felt we could safely do this work. Finally, in the fall, several Flower Guild members and other volunteers from the cathedral spent a morning planting and placing pots of ornamental cabbage and kale, chrysanthemums and pansies in the children’s playground at Cincinnati Scholar House. *** GALLERY SOUTH Mike Phillips, Chair Thanks to COVID-19, Gallery South was dark the whole year. Behind the scenes, we worked on developing three shows that surely we’ll be able to hang in 2021: Wonder III will be the latest version of what has become our signature group show theme, which we hope to anchor immediately after Easter each year. Real News is a group show of bright young photographers and one nationally known master who document the lives of real people in real small-town America. It originally was meant to be our 2020 contribution to FotoFocus, the biennial show that crops up all over town in even-numbered Octobers. (We’ll think of something else for 2022.) And we now have a tentative return visit date in October, with all new work, of Icons in Transformation by Swedish artist Ludmilla Pawlowska. Her work is deeply spiritual and unlike any art you’ve seen before. *** HOSPITALITY GUILD Constance Sanders, Chair

The Hospitality Guild was formed in 1997 to provide a meaningful way for cathedral worshipers to gather informally. Since then, the guild has served the cathedral by providing refreshments for worshipers during the Sunday morning coffee hour following the 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning service. This service continued through the first couple months of 2020. Cathedral members and visitors regarded this as an important time to discuss cathedral activities, visit with friends, and meet new people.

During these months, members of the guild arrived early on Sundays to prepare an assortment of food and beverages, some of the food being supplied by the cathedral and some donated by guild members and others. Denis Murphy faithfully procured pastries from Busken Bakery each week, or arranged for other guild members to pick them up, including Carl Rhodes, John Treacy, and Roland Ficke. The guild also worked with members of the growing Noon Service to discuss how best to serve the hospitality needs of those attending.

39 Guild volunteers are scheduled quarterly, usually in teams of four, using a combination of online and manual processes. The responsibility for creating the schedule was assumed by Lexie Bopp and Mary Lynn Woebkenberg toward the end of 2019.

The Hospitality Guild was on hiatus from coffee hour for most of the months of the pandemic. In the late summer and early fall the cathedral started offering coffee in the garden area for those present for in-person services, and several members of the guild were on hand to help with logistics. Membership in the Hospitality Guild has fluctuated over the years, as we have gained and lost members for various reasons. We especially will miss Chris Carey, an enthusiastic and dependable guild member for many years, who moved away from our area this year. At present, the roster stands at 29 members. We always are happy to have new members. We encourage others to join us when we get underway again, when we hope to continue the quality of service that we have provided to our fellow parishioners in the past. *** INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK Elizabeth Brown, Chair The cathedral is one of 27 host congregations in the greater Cincinnati area providing shelter and food for families who are homeless. We were scheduled to host families five weeks during 2020, but only hosted two of our weeks before the pandemic hit. The cathedral’s host week in March was the last week before congregate living at churches was deemed not to be safe, and IHN moved the families to long- term hotel rooms. During the weeks we hosted, the families came each evening at 5:00 p.m. and spent the night at the cathedral leaving for the IHN Day Center around 7:00 a.m. the following morning. The cathedral’s mission is to provide food, shelter, and hospitality for the families. Other needs and issues are met by the IHN social work staff during the day. The cathedral contributed the amount budgeted for the three host weeks we missed to IHN to help cover the cost of housing and feeding the families during the pandemic. In 2020, we provided food and shelter for 14 days for 11 adults and 14 children, ranging in age from infants to teenagers. Volunteers donated and prepared 14 hot sit-down dinners for groups of 15- 20 people. We also provided breakfast and bag lunches for the guests. Each week, about 30 cathedral volunteers made the program possible by playing with the children, preparing meals, and spending the night with them in the cathedral undercroft. Volunteers set up and tear down the room dividers and beds, do the laundry, and shop for groceries. In addition to cathedral members, Calvary Episcopal Church is our supporting congregation and provides volunteers and the meal for each Thursday of host week. *** JUBILEE DEBT FORGIVENESS PROGRAM Elizabeth Brown, Chair This was a new cathedral initiative in 2020. It was piloted in 2019 with a Coombe Fund grant and was included in the cathedral operating budget for 2020. The goal of the program is to remove debt that is an immediate barrier to stabilizing a family’s life and moving toward self-sufficiency. Requests are accepted from the case managers at the four family homeless shelters in Cincinnati: the Interfaith Hospitality Network, Bethany House, Salvation Army, and the YWCA domestic violence shelter. Requests were also accepted for residents of the new Scholar House.

40 The budget was $30,000 plus an additional $5,000 from a designated contribution. In December, an additional $10,000 was made available from the general Outreach budget. Debts were forgiven for 27 families with an average payment of about $1,600. Most of the debts were to Duke Energy and prevented the families from finding stable housing because they could not get utilities in their name. Many had been in homeless shelters with their children for months and were able to move into stable housing quickly once the utility bill was paid. Three debts were to prior subsidized housing landlords and barred the families from receiving a current rent subsidy although they otherwise were eligible. Families that are homeless have a priority for Section 8 vouchers, but a debt to any federally subsidized program, no matter how old, will result in the voucher being denied. Two debts were for past college fees that would have prevented Scholar House parents from continuing their education. The parents had been working, struggling to pay rent and tuition for themselves and child care for their children. Moving into Scholar House stabilized their rent and child care, so they could handle the tuition going forward, but they still owed fees from last term.

The cathedral’s financial staff was extremely efficient in making the payments which went directly to the creditor. The Duke Energy bills could be paid online. In two cases, cathedral staff had to deal with a collection agency. The program often has a dramatic, immediate effect on the families. In one case the social worker said of the homeless client’s large utility bill, “She is a single-hard-working mother of three who is trying to do the best by her family, but has been overwhelmed by this obstacle in her path.” On hearing that the cathedral had paid the bill, she wrote, “Thank you for your speedy response! My client was so thankful she burst into tears.” *** MUSIC COMMITTEEE Drew Abbott, Chair It is a privilege to continue sharing the gift of music with the cathedral’s worship community, the Diocese of Southern Ohio, and the City of Cincinnati. The 2020 calendar year has, of course, been a year like no other due to the pandemic! We have fought the limitations caused by the pandemic with technology and presented many of our worship services and concerts virtually. In 2020 online attendance for liturgies with music was over 18,100 and online attendance for concerts was over 4,400—in addition to in-person attendance. Below are music ministry highlights for the year. Nave Organ Project Richards Fowkes & Co. Opus 24 was delivered in January and installed over the next couple of months. Then began the intensive voicing process, in which each pipe is adjusted to work perfectly with the other pipes and with the acoustics of the room. Several new ranks became playable each week, giving an ever-broadening palette of colors. The COVID-19 shutdown in April and May meant that voicing had to stop for a while, but barring unforeseen circumstances, the organ will be completed by the end of February 2021. Cathedral Choir The Cathedral Choir consists of 31 choristers: 12 professionals, two high school choral scholars, and 17 volunteers. The realities of COVID-19 drastically changed how the choir functioned for much of 2020. For several months, when no in-person singing was possible, the singers created virtual

41 performances for use during worship. Beginning in October, the choir began rehearsing and singing for worship in person with safety measures (e.g. wearing special singer masks, wide spacing between singers, and the use of quartets and octets rather than the full choir). Whether virtually or in person, the choir sang for more than 80 liturgies and concerts in 2020, including: • The Annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival • An Procession • A “Shrove Sunday” Jazz Mass • Services of Choral Evensong • • liturgies • • Thursday • Liturgy • Good Friday Evensong • • Easter Day • Ascension Day Eucharist • Indigenous Peoples’ Celebration • All Souls’ • An Advent Procession with Lessons and Carols • ’s A Ceremony of Carols • A Festival of • and Christmas Day liturgies Solo cantors have provided music for liturgies such as • The Epiphany • Thanksgiving Day • Blue Christmas The choir also created a virtual choir video as a tribute to Bishop Breidenthal upon his retirement. Diocesan virtual choir Cathedral musicians put together a virtual diocesan choir for two major events: • The Day of Pentecost (May 31) 25 singers from eight different parishes participated • Diocesan Convention (November 7) 27 singers from 10 different parishes participated Christ Church Singers The Christ Church Singers is an all-volunteer ensemble designed for those who love to sing but are not able to commit to the cathedral choir’s rehearsal and performance schedule. Typically the singers meet to rehearse and sing for Sunday morning Eucharist four times a year, but due to the pandemic, three of the rehearsals/performances scheduled for 2020 were cancelled.

Cathedral Choir of Children and Youth The Cathedral Choir of Children and Youth (CCCY) under the leadership of Christopher Wheeler is engaged in an all-virtual format for the 2020-21 season. Singers meet once a week online for fellowship, community building, and rehearsal. Singers also each receive a weekly voice lesson to help learn music and to find ways to integrate instrumental music into the choral experience. Choristers are currently preparing music for viola, cello, and guitar to accompany singing. As always, CCCY is

42 focused on learning and performing quality that is engaging and worthy of our time and efforts, but building and sustaining a sense of community and engagement in lieu of in-person singing is also a high priority. CCCY is in the final stages of producing three virtual choir videos with voices and instruments to share with the congregation. Summer Music Camp The 2020 Summer Choir Music Camp was also entirely virtual. Eight children participated. The camp culminated in producing two virtual choir/instrument videos, which were shared with the congregation. (example here). Sunday Noon Service Music Under the leadership of musician Kim Taylor, the Noon Service incorporates singing, Taizé chants, paperless singing, and original melodies written to foster community participation. Singing is sometimes unaccompanied but also features various instruments such as guitar, Shruti box, or violin. For much of the year the service was offered on Zoom due to the pandemic. The cathedral’s Noon Service worship team also hosted a concert by husband-wife duo The Turtledoves. The team presented its annual Lessons and Carols Concert featuring readings and original interpretations of beloved Christmas carols by local musicians and songwriters, a program made available online via Bandcamp rather than as a live performance because of COVID-19 restrictions. Sadly, Kim Taylor has moved out of state and will no longer be leading music at the Noon Service. We are grateful for her vital contribution to the cathedral and wish her all the best in the next chapter of life! Concerts During 2020 the cathedral presented special performances that included the following: • Organ Recital (Roberta Gary) • On the Voice: Arias and Art Songs (Collegium Cincinnati) • An Evening with the Turtledoves (Ashley and Alex McGrath) • Organ Recital (Stephan Casurella, Shiloh Roby, Stella O’Neill) • Organ Recital (Michael Unger) • Music of Mussorgsky for All Hallows’ Eve (Slavic Voices) • (Mostly) Messiah (Collegium Cincinnati) Additional concerts had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Whenever possible, however, concerts were streamed live whether or not an in-person audience was present. Collegium Cincinnati, our ensemble-in-residence, continues to enjoy the use of our facilities while we benefit from the ensemble’s energy, vision, and ability to bring audience members to the cathedral. Music Live Music Live at Lunch performances have continued strong, even though serving lunch was no longer possible and many of the concerts were made available via live stream only due to the pandemic. Programs ranged from New Orleans Jazz and Bluegrass to vocal music of Hildegard von Bingen. The position of organ scholar has a long history, particularly in England, where many prominent church musicians, conductors, and professors served as organ scholars early in their careers. It has been an important way to foster and nurture talented students who will serve in sacred music. We are pleased to have Stella O’Neill returning in this capacity for the 2020-2021 academic year at Christ Church. Stella is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, rounding out her varied studies in organ, piano, and harpsichord. As Organ Scholar, Stella is gaining experience in performing, conducting, and accompanying, as well as assisting with music-related administrative tasks.

43 Friends of Music We give special thanks to the generous Friends of Music donors who make possible special concerts, commissioned works, and other music projects not supported by the cathedral’s music operating budget. In 2020 the Friends of Music provided funding for concerts by Collegium Cincinnati and a couple of organ recitals. Thanks The Music Committee thanks all those supporting music events at the cathedral, including the donors, cooks, ushers, greeters, publicists, sextons, receptionists, administrative assistants, librarians, and musicians! We thank our former dean, Gail Greenwell, and our interim dean, Jason Leo, for their support. Above all, the Music Committee is grateful for the superb music staff: Stephan Casurella, Shiloh Roby, Christopher Wheeler, Kim Taylor, Doug Bruestle, and Stella O’Neill. Through their artistry, dedication and hard work, the music ministry at Christ Church Cathedral continues to thrive with innovation and flexibility, bringing us together as a worshiping community and sharing beauty with people in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond. Cathedral Music Staff Stephan Casurella, Canon Precentor and Director of Music Shiloh Roby, Associate Director of Music Christopher Wheeler, Associate Musician for Children and Youth Kim Taylor, Associate Musician for the Noon Service Stella O’Neill, Organ Scholar Doug Bruestle, Music Administrator Music Committee Members Drew Abbott, chair Dan Lakamp, Vestry liaison Cecile Allyn Merrilee Atkins Robert Beiring Dawn Bruestle Janet Hauck Mary Henrickson Isaiah Hyman, Jr. Kim Taylor Michael Unger *** NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRY COUNCIL John Grate, Chair The Native American Ministry Council provides hands-on outreach by witnessing and building awareness of the contemporary needs, values, and traditions of Native American cultures. It contributes to education and theological development of leadership within Native American communities and supports initiatives to empower Native American societies and ministries related to needs, cultural sustainability, and spiritual growth.

Council Activities in 2020: The council continues its partnership with the Episcopal Church in Navajoland through contributions, scholarships, and grants to support Navajo’s pursuing seminary and undergraduate degrees that will provide leadership in the church’s ministries on the reservation. The

44 2020 Navajoland mission trips had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A call for support to aid parishioners and families throughout the Navajoland Area Mission led to the council allocating significant resources to support the pandemic relief effort on the reservation. Monies normally spent for the mission trips were sent to Good Shepherd and St. Christopher’s Missions to help them in the ministry to the Navajo people. The Economic Development Corporation of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland, of which John Grate serves as president, succeeded in raising over a half a million dollars to support the Mission efforts during these troubling times. The council was unable to conduct a workshop and service on Indigenous Peoples Day weekend in October as in the past. It did, however, support the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition’s YouTube program of native speakers over the weekend. The Sunday service was virtual and included beautiful music by the choir and a pre-recorded sermon by the Rev. Cornelia Eaton of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland. The Shima fundraising was cancelled, but the Council sent a donation to assist efforts to remain viable as an enterprise. Hands-on Outreach Expenditures: • Episcopal Church in Navajoland Annual Appeal—$10,000 • Outreach and Covid Pandemic Relief—$29,500 • Hozho Wellness Center—$1,000 • Support for Delegate Trips—$657 Education and Leadership Development Expenditures: • Navajoland Communicators Conference—$1,900 • Minnesota Department of Indian Works travel scholarships—$5,000 • Native American Youth Event—$6,000 Native American Empowerment Expenditures: • Support Lillie Ann Begay’s aid to the poor and elderly in Navajolan—$5,373 • Economic Development Corporation of Navajoland—$10,000 • Shima soaps for fundraising—$1,000 • National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition—$5,000 • Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition—$6,000 • Native Americans in Philanthropy—$1,000. Council Volunteers: Amy Brubaker, Tom Bensman, Martha Camele, Chris Carey, Dan Carlson, John and Toni Grate, Guy Jones, Jack Jose, Laura Kennedy, Lisa and Steve Lemen, Kathy Mank, Danyale Marshall, Frank and Janna McWilliams, Ro Morsby, Jheri Neri, Ethan Nichols, Bob Shawver, Kim Taylor, and David Thomson. *** OUTREACH Olden Warren, Chair The Outreach Committee continued to live out its mission of “Claiming God’s mission as our own, we seek and raise awareness of the issues affecting the poor and underserved in our community. We provide the advocacy and resources of the cathedral to make significant impact and meaningful change in the areas in which we focus.” The committee oversees the following longstanding ministries:

45 • Plumb Line • 5000 Club • Volunteer Friend/Outreach Assistance program • Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) • Community Issues Forum • Grants • Gun Violence Task Force • Debt Forgiveness Details from each of these ministries have been submitted separately for the annual report. The shuttering of cathedral activities in response to the COVID-19 crisis impacted a number of our ministries’ planned activities, but thanks to the dedication and flexibility of many, we were able to adjust and deliver a number of needed services. In April, the Outreach Committee acted swiftly to meet the needs of our community most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. One hundred thousand dollars of the Outreach budget was repurposed in the following manner: • $25,000 was donated to the Bishop’s Diocesan Relief Fund, established to help parishes struggling to make their financial ends meet due to their loss in plate offerings since their parishes were not holding service. • $75,000 was awarded to 16 local non-profit organizations who needed assistance responding to the COVID-19 crisis. The Grants Committee set aside its work and used its expertise to quickly review grant applications and make awards. The awards were made within two weeks, expediting relief during a critical time in the COVID-19 crisis. Other ministries adapted to continue to provide services. The 5000 Club continued providing meals to our guests, changing the meals to carry-out. This put these volunteers on the front line of the crisis as they served folks who had little protection from the spread. The Community Issues Forum turned to a virtual format to continue its important discussions on key local issues. The Grants Committee completed its review and award of grants for the second half of the year. Finally, the Debt Forgiveness program was able to make awards, paying utilities debts that were causing barriers for homeless folks seeking housing. This was especially critical during the COVID-19 crisis as sheltering-in-place was one of the major strategies to combat the spread. In November, the committee was able to provide the Bishop’s Diocesan Relief Fund with another $5,000 and provide $10,000 to our partners at Over-the-Rhine Community Housing (OTRCH) who have been facing significant reductions in their income as their residents lost their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis. The grant helps defray their losses and allows OTRCH to avoid evicting residents who were unable to pay rent. Members of the Mission and Outreach Committee in 2020: Olden Warren (Chair), John Gillespie (Vestry Liaison), Pat Coyle, Canon Marshall Wiseman, Canon Karen Montagno, Julieta Simms, Mike Bootes, and Janna McWilliams. *** COMMUNITY GRANTS Don Lane, Chair In March, 2020, the normal ebb and flow duties of the Community Grants Committee endured some very abrupt changes, as the committee was pleased to help the cathedral respond to the Covid-19 crisis in the Greater Cincinnati area. Working remotely, committee members approved emergency Covid-19 grants for the following organizations on an expedited basis:

46 1. Covington Ladies Home $5,000.00 2. St. Vincent DePaul $5,000.00 3. Brighton Center $2,500.00 4. OTR Community Housing $6,025.00 5. Ohio Valley Voices $3,000.00 6. Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky $2,500.00 7. MEAC $7,500.00 8. ERS $7,500.00 9. Lighthouse $7,500.00 10. UpSpring $2,500.00 11. Freestore $5,000.00 12. Learning Grove $5,000.00 13. New Foundations $5,000.00 14. Community Matters $2,500.00 15. Santa Maria $5,000.00 16. Dragonfly $3,475.00 The committee acknowledges the input of Dean Gail Greenwell and Outreach Chair Olden Warren on diverting Outreach funds to this worthwhile effort.

The committee’s adjustments did not stop there. The committee resumed regular grant making over the Summer and Fall by considering what normally would have been two rounds of grants at one time. The committee provided grants to the following organizations: 1. Parents for Public Schools $8,500.00 2. UC Upward Bound $1,000.00 3. Cincinnati Urban Promise $15,000.00 4. KY Senior Apartments $15,000.00 5. Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses $15,000.00 6. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital $15,000.00 7. Redwood School $15,000.00 8. Prince of Peace Cold Shelter $16,000.00 9. Education Matters $10,000.00 10. Crayons to Computers $10,000.00 11. Boys Hope Girls Hope $15,000.00 As usual, these grants represent assistance to diverse organizations that address varying issues of poverty, racial justice, and social issues. *** PLUMB LINE MINISTRY Jack M. Jose, Chair In the city of Cincinnati, more than half of children under the age of five live in poverty, and the children’s poverty rate is at its highest in more than a decade. The most heartbreaking impact of poverty is children experiencing homelessness. Plumb Line at Christ Church Cathedral is an integral part of a citywide safety net to prevent families from falling into homelessness. We work through a Central Access Point with St. Vincent DePaul, Community Action Agency, Our Daily Bread, Tender Mercies, CAIN, and the Freestore Foodbank to identify families in genuine need of support.

47 Plumb Line prevented over 300 families from being evicted in 2020. In one case, a mother and her five children, ranging in age from three months to 13 years, had moved to Cincinnati with the help of a domestic violence support organization. She was unable to contact family members when she fell behind in rent, and faced eviction just two days before Christmas. Thanks to Plumb Line connections and a company donor, she was able to keep her apartment and stabilize her income. During the pandemic, another family found themselves homeless because of childbirth. When Mom went to the hospital to deliver her twins, her roommates would not let her return due to COVID-19 fears. Our one-time donation to Maslow’s Army kept her family housed for months. After 30 years of face-to-face interviews, COVID-19 completely shut down our in-person consultations with volunteers this year. At that time, Ryan Luckie at Freestore and Crystal Jones began handling the entire operation over the phone. It simply could not have happened without their dedication and commitment to our mission, and I express our sincere thanks on behalf of Christ Church Cathedral. We are also thankful for the life of Nancye Phillips, whose cheerful support of our ministry will be missed. I am thankful for our volunteers for this important work: Judy Beiring, Sammie Bubel, Nancy Christensen, Marjorie Fox, Sally Ghering, Toni Grate, Joanne Handy, Sue Heighberger, Beverly Jones, Janna McWilliams, Nancye Phillips, Holly Pratt, Brenda Shawver, and Nancy Woodburn. Thank you to Judy Hering who processes rent payments to landlords, making our work possible. Finally, I am deeply grateful for the continued partnership and leadership of Toni Grate. Despite stepping down last year from her co-chair position, she remained an active and authoritative volunteer. Plumb Line works better because of her faith and dedication. *** PRAYER GROUP MINISTRY Pat Haug and Priscilla Dunn, Co-Coordinators Our group of 20 members of the congregation offer prayers for 70 persons for whom prayers have been requested. The list changes as there are healings, thanksgivings, and deaths that remove names from the list and from our lives. Each day different concerns that reach outside of our congregation are also offered up in prayer. *** RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP Julie Kline and Michael Pelgen, Co-Chairs The Resource Stewardship Committee functions with two sub-groups: (1) Budget and Finance and (2) Stewardship. Under Stewardship, the four areas of giving are: Memorial Giving, Legacy Giving, Annual Appeal, and Capital Campaigns.

The Budget and Finance committee members are: Elizabeth Brown, Steve Gerdsen, Julie Kline, Michael Pelgen and Sandra Crawford as cathedral treasurer. The committee crafted a 2021 budget that is reflective of the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on reducing expenditures while maximizing outreach endeavors. The Annual Appeal was co-chaired by Patrick Daffin and Drew Abbott. As of this writing, the Annual Appeal for 2021 totaled approximately $330,000, 9.3% below the budgeted

48 goal of $364,000. Matt Dunn chairs the Anchor Society, representing the cathedral’s effort to encourage Legacy Giving. The committee chairs would like to thank Jean Beck and Carine de Lange for their work with the committee. Please refer to the financial information in this annual report for the 2021 budget, the trustee’s report for the endowment position and performance, and the treasurer’s presentation for a full financial summary of 2020 for the cathedral and 2021 annual appeal campaign results. *** TAFT LECTURE SERIES Dianne Ebbs, Chair Due to the present pandemic, all lectures for 2020 were cancelled. *** USHERS – 10 AM SERVICES AND SPECIAL SERVICES Paula Rose, Coordinator We reflect upon this year which presented to us time spent apart due to the release of a virus that span across the globe impacting so many of our lives, whether it be from losing a close loved one, to the inability to spend time with our friends and families, fellow parishioners, and the like. As I write this report, I wish to thank those that have served as ushers during the pandemic, whether it be in the summer heat, the rain and frigid temperatures, your service was and still is greatly appreciated. Those that cannot serve, we truly understand, and miss you all. The Ministry Scheduling Pro (MSP) proved to be invaluable with all the scheduling changes for both indoor and outdoor services. Stephan Casurella, the administrator of MSP, on top of his many other duties as Director of Music and Canon Precentor, does a fantastic job in ensuring each service is planned with finesse. The Welcome Table ministry in March had to be discontinued in light of the services being live streamed from March. We look forward to re-implementing when safe to do so. Recruiting and scheduling of ushers is ongoing to help us prepare for the time we are together again. George Marshall continues as head usher at the 10:00 a.m. Sunday Eucharist and the vestry handles first Sundays. We coordinate all through Liturgical Scheduling, including . The 8:00 a.m. and the recently added 12:00 Noon service, Eucharist and Boar’s Head have their own usher teams. Ushers are called upon to assist at the beautiful weddings and as needed funerals where we send our farewells to cherished members. Concerts and other “outside” musical events ushering, such as Music Live, is being coordinated by Merrilee Atkins, supported by Matt Shad and Eric Sunderland. This will be included in the Music Committee Annual report. As happens every year, we joyfully welcome new ministers to the usher ranks and say good-bye to those who have moved on, transferred, or are taking a break. For those who have left and those who are no longer listed below, their service will be missed. Thank you. Those that follow have served in some capacity in 2020 and will continue to serve in 2021 when able: Jon Berger, Lexie Bopp, Jim Borgo, Elizabeth Brown, Ed Burdell, Tom Cecil, Chris and Nancy Christensen, Matt Dunn, John Gillespie, Phil and Mary Hagner, Denis Murphy, Sigrun Haude, Walter

49 Langsam, George Marshall, Mike and Sandy Porada, Paula Rose, Julieta Simms, Ron Slone, Tucker Stone, Olden Warren, Roger Pomplas, Ethan Nichols, Mary Lynn Woebkenberg, and Jack Jose. The ushers current main responsibility due to the COVID-19 guidelines are to ensure that all present at the outdoor (and indoor when permitted) are greeted and list attendees and contact information for contract tracing. Once services are in the Nave again, ushers ensure attendees have a service leaflet/program at the Nave door and get them seated promptly and with courtesy. Ushers also and present the offering or monitor plates in the aisle, as appropriate. Ushers welcome attendees, answer questions (away from the Nave doors) before and after the service. Ushers are also responsible for ensuring the pews are cleared of any disposed of leaflets. Ushers handle crowds from overflowing out the doors of the cathedral to a handful of people in the chapel. This ministry is a terrific way to meet other members of the congregation and to learn others’ names through the service leaflets. Now serving are 30 ushers on a regular basis.

As we close out this unusual year, we look forward to serving in the new year 2021. *** YOUTH PROGRAM Dan Carlson, Chair As with so many areas of ministry this year, Youth Ministry at the cathedral has been radically impacted by the pandemic and the transitionary period we’re collectively navigating as a community. Entering 2020, we knew that this was going to be the end of a certain era for our cathedral youth group— more than half of our core students were seniors graduating high school in 2020. Yet the year turned out to be an even greater shift than anyone could have anticipated. On February 22, a group of eight volunteered at Freestore Foodbank for a day. This was our youth group’s first Service Day with Freestore and there was strong interest in continuing to volunteer with FF in the future. The pandemic put a hold on physical gatherings before this relationship could be further developed. At the start of the year our youth were continuing to gather at the cathedral every few weeks for a ‘Big Questions’ evening of dinner and discussion. These gatherings have been central to our program by letting youth talk about the questions they wrestle with—questions about God, faith, community, ethics, and life. With the arrival of the pandemic, we switched to Zoom BQ for a few months, but this was discontinued over the summer months (as most kids were feeling exhausted by Zoom gatherings at that point). Our last major physical event was our Spring Retreat from March 6-8. A group of 10 spent time at Red River Gorge in Kentucky, where we hiked, prayed, and discussed our growing concerns about the coronavirus which was just beginning to appear in news reports. In retrospect, our youth were grateful for this last extended gathering before the pandemic hit in full force. The pandemic made it impossible for our youth to connect with their friends in Navajoland for our annual youth arts project at St. Christopher’s Mission. Instead, cathedral youth created a care package of art supplies, books, and personal greetings to let our friends in Bluff, Utah know that they were very much on our minds.

50 With the severe limitations placed on our program with the arrival of the pandemic, we continued to connect regularly in small ways (a weekly video was sent out each Sunday until mid-summer), but eventually decided that the cathedral youth program needed to be re-invented for a new generation on the other side of the current period of institutional turmoil and reorganization. We’ve been pointing cathedral youth to our local partner program Kids4Peace as we make plans for a new kind of youth program in years to come. ***

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