#doingchurchdifferently 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 & Yule Log Festival------------------------------------------------ 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 ordination 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). Deacon 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 Church 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