Eastern Shore Episcopalian - Pre-Convention 2020
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General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation Continued<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation Continued<br />
How do we accomplish that? Frankly, I<br />
don’t know. I DO know we must be open<br />
to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Prayer<br />
is the most powerful tool we each have;<br />
corporate and individual prayer empowers<br />
the Jesus Movement. And I’d like to<br />
witness that happening.<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation, Lay -<br />
Kathy Wise<br />
As a member of<br />
Great Choptank<br />
Parish,Christ Episcopal<br />
Church, Cambridge,<br />
in the Middle<br />
Convocation, I have<br />
served in many roles –<br />
both in my own church<br />
and in positions<br />
in the Diocese of<br />
Easton. I have loved opportunities to<br />
be a Eucharistic Minister and Worship<br />
Leader, a member of a shared-leadership<br />
Bible Study group, a delegate to Diocesan<br />
<strong>Convention</strong>, a Vestry member, Senior<br />
Warden, and part of our parish Search<br />
Committees. In the Diocese, I have been<br />
a Deputy to four, and an alternate to<br />
two General <strong>Convention</strong>s, served on the<br />
Standing Committee, the Commission<br />
on Ministry, the Youth Task Force, as<br />
a Consultant to churches for Mutual<br />
Ministry Reviews and Search Committees,<br />
and most recently as the Co-Chair of the<br />
Transition Committee for the election of<br />
Bishop Marray.<br />
church where God is at work in our lives,<br />
we become more comfortable sharing our<br />
faith stories beyond the church walls. My<br />
vision for the Church and for the Diocese<br />
is to see growing opportunities at the<br />
Diocesan level, and within and between<br />
our individual churches, for equipping our<br />
members to become more comfortable<br />
and more skilled at sharing their faith<br />
stories with one another. As we learn to do<br />
this with fellow believers, we will become<br />
better able to share our stories of Jesus’<br />
love and grace in our families, in our work<br />
places, and in the communities where<br />
we live, being light and salt throughout<br />
the <strong>Shore</strong>. Caring for the business of our<br />
churches and the Diocese is important;<br />
“equipping the saints” is essential!<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation, Lay -<br />
Jim Kamihachi<br />
I am a member of<br />
St. Mark’s Church<br />
in Perryville, at the<br />
edge of the Northern<br />
Convocation. It’s<br />
a wonderful, small<br />
church with an<br />
inclusive Christian<br />
community and<br />
well-worth a visit.<br />
Currently, I am a deacon-in-training,<br />
Chairman of the Diversity Awareness<br />
Commission, and a member of the<br />
Constitution and Canons Committee. I<br />
am a past member of the Commission on<br />
Ministry.<br />
Bishop San reassigned me to St. Mark’s last<br />
March, and since then I have assisted in<br />
nearly every Sunday service, occasionally<br />
leading Morning Prayer. I also help give<br />
out food to the needy at the monthly<br />
church food pantry, and I continue to<br />
assist Fr. John Schaeffer at his 12-step<br />
services and unload delivery trucks for the<br />
Outreach program at St. Mary Anne’s in<br />
North East. I take comfort in less visible<br />
service, such as cleaning up after church<br />
functions.<br />
I devoted my career to regulatory policy<br />
and spent 20 years in the federal service<br />
at the Environmental Protection Agency,<br />
the Office of Management and Budget, and<br />
the Treasury Department. When I retired<br />
from government, I was the Sr. Deputy<br />
Comptroller for Economic and Policy<br />
Analysis at the Office of the Comptroller of<br />
the Currency, the administrator of national<br />
banks. I was at Promontory Financial<br />
Group for 17 years, working with banks on<br />
compliance risk management. In earlier<br />
days, I led the Mayor of Seattle’s policy<br />
staff and was a member of the Board of the<br />
family business.<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation, Lay -<br />
Sandy Bjork<br />
I am a RN with a B.S. in Health Care<br />
Administration and a J.D. with a certificate<br />
in Health Law. My career path has been<br />
direct patient care, utilization review and<br />
case management. Following Law School,<br />
I worked with members of the radiology<br />
community developing guidelines and<br />
standards for radiologic procedures.<br />
My husband and I enjoy travel in the<br />
US and abroad, golf, and local theater. I<br />
was pleased to spend almost ten years of<br />
singing with the Chester River Chorale.<br />
We are fortunate to have our children and<br />
grandchildren living on the Western <strong>Shore</strong><br />
and in New York so there are many trips<br />
back over the Bay Bridge.<br />
I see the vision of the church already being<br />
played out in response to Bishop Curry’s<br />
The Way of Love and particularly in the<br />
reconciliation efforts through the Sacred<br />
Ground initiative. When we can see God<br />
in the face of every human no matter who<br />
they might be or where we might find<br />
them, then we will be accomplishing the<br />
mission of Jesus.<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation, Clergy<br />
- Kevin Cross<br />
and respiratory therapy.<br />
At work and in my communities I<br />
have served as a member and leader of<br />
numerous task forces and committees<br />
including DOE’s Standing Committee,<br />
the Diocesan Council, the Commission<br />
on Ministry, the Bishop’s Listening<br />
Committee, and as a deputy to the<br />
78th annual General <strong>Convention</strong> of the<br />
Episcopal Church. At that convention<br />
I co-authored two resolutions adopted<br />
by the convention regarding new church<br />
alcohol and drug policies.<br />
As a founding member of the Diocesan<br />
Youth Missioner committee I helped<br />
establish and fund our diocesan Youth<br />
Missioner position. I founded the<br />
diocesan Recovery Ministry committee<br />
and served for two years as <strong>Pre</strong>sident of<br />
the Board of Recovery Ministries of the<br />
Episcopal Church. I currently serve the<br />
diocese as chair of the Bishops’ committee<br />
to Camp Wright, a member of the Camp<br />
Wright development committee and<br />
continue the work of the recovery ministry<br />
team.<br />
I have been a guest lecturer at General<br />
Theological School and national<br />
conferences on Youth, Addiction and<br />
Spirituality. For the Diocese of Fredericton<br />
I served on the Human Resources<br />
committee and Secretary and Treasurer for<br />
the deanery of St. Andrews.<br />
your good works and give glory to your<br />
Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14- 16 The<br />
darkness of divisiveness has taken over<br />
the world. Jesus calls the church to be a<br />
change agent, transforming the darkness<br />
of division into the light of peace and<br />
harmony. Together we can shed light on<br />
the goodness of God. Just as the mirror in<br />
a lighthouse projects light to guide ships<br />
safely home, we can be mirrors of Christ’s<br />
light. The light of Christ can banish the<br />
darkness of the world and illuminate the<br />
way toward creating a glimpse of God’s<br />
kingdom here on earth. We can be the<br />
change..<br />
General <strong>Convention</strong> Deputation, Clergy<br />
- Charlie Osberger<br />
The Very Reverend<br />
Charlie Osberger,<br />
rector of Wye Parish,<br />
Queenstown and Wye<br />
Mills, Dean of the<br />
Middle Convocation.<br />
Graduated from the<br />
University of Southern<br />
California, Fuller<br />
Seminary, Pasadena,<br />
California and Trinity Episcopal School<br />
for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania.<br />
Recently married to the Reverend Frieda<br />
Malcolm.<br />
I have been blessed to<br />
After my retirement<br />
serve on the eastern<br />
as a nurse attorney, we<br />
shore as rector of The<br />
moved to Chestertown<br />
Church of the Holy<br />
A vision for the church: I believe in the<br />
in 2007. I have been<br />
Trinity, Oxford since Currently in addition to continuing Church, “that wonderful and sacred<br />
an active member of<br />
March of 2010. Prior diocesan work I serve on the board mystery” real and sacramental, local and<br />
Emmanuel Church,<br />
to moving to the of Talbot Hospice and serve on the<br />
universal, in but not of the world, the<br />
I have been a clinical social worker for over<br />
50 years, working as a family therapist,<br />
and before retiring, as the program<br />
administrator for home visiting and school<br />
based heath prevention programs. After<br />
being a widow for 16 years, I remarried<br />
eleven years ago, and my husband, Doug<br />
Ridley, and I are enjoying sharing family<br />
events with children, grandchildren and<br />
As Christians, we are called to be living<br />
examples of God’s love and an antidote<br />
to the divisiveness in our country and<br />
the world. The future of the Episcopal<br />
church lies in service to communities<br />
outside church walls, extending ourselves<br />
to people who are not like us, just as Jesus<br />
did.<br />
Chester Parish in the<br />
Northern Convocation,<br />
where I have been a<br />
choir member, helped<br />
with the Kitchen Krew, Flower Guild,<br />
choir, other parish activities and am<br />
currently Senior Warden. With my health<br />
care background, I have been honored<br />
to serve on the Board of For All Seasons,<br />
eastern shore with my<br />
wife Barbara, I was<br />
ordained a priest in<br />
the Anglican Church of Canada where<br />
I served as priest-in-charge of a small a<br />
parish in the Diocese of Fredericton (New<br />
Brunswick). Holy Trinity is a vibrant<br />
parish which continues to grow spiritually,<br />
numerically and financially in new and<br />
chaplaincy staff of the National Cathedral.<br />
I also serve as chaplain to the Oxford<br />
Police and Fire Departments. For the past<br />
three years I have also served as a visiting<br />
priest at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican<br />
Church in the Caribbean and raised funds<br />
to assist the Diocese of the North <strong>Eastern</strong><br />
Caribbean and Aruba with their recovery<br />
from hurricane Irma.<br />
People of God declaring the purposes<br />
of God in Creation. All this means to<br />
me the church is gifted by grace to be<br />
persons made new by the power of the<br />
Holy Spirit, seeking to live courageously<br />
for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In a world<br />
progressively divided by the idols of this<br />
age, our deepest need is to be present as a<br />
reconciling community able to act upon<br />
great grandchildren, travel opportunities,<br />
the behavioral health and rape crisis<br />
exciting ways each year.<br />
the implications of the Gospel and to reach<br />
My wife and son and I live in Elkton.<br />
My vision for the church, enthusiastically<br />
and participating together in church and<br />
center, serving the five mid <strong>Shore</strong> counties<br />
out to our neighbors with a real grace,<br />
We also have two daughters and six<br />
Pastoral work has always been at the core embraces our responsibility as followers of<br />
community activities.<br />
and am currently vice president of the<br />
mercy and goodness that brings hope<br />
grandchildren. We lived in Alexandria,<br />
of my vocations and along with strong Jesus Christ to teach, model, and inspire<br />
Chester River Health Foundation Board.<br />
in the midst of despair and confusion.<br />
As the chair of our Stewardship<br />
VA for 25 years, where our daughters<br />
leadership skills is a leading strength the love and mercy of God in ourselves,<br />
I have learned a lot and continue to learn<br />
This kind of authentic church asks to<br />
Committee, I have been inviting<br />
attended the Episcopal diocese school. I<br />
of my ministry. Prior to following this our congregations, and the world beyond<br />
about the functioning of the Diocese or<br />
be equipped and sent by the mission of<br />
parishioners to share each Sunday what am a three-generation <strong>Episcopalian</strong> on my<br />
calling I worked for over 25 years as a the boundaries of church and diocese.<br />
Easton by being privileged to serve on the<br />
God in the world . Throughout my life of<br />
they celebrate about our church, and about father’s side, though I fell into the Church<br />
senior executive in Fortune 100 financial Amidst the divisiveness of today’s world,<br />
Commission on Ministry and Diocesan<br />
service in this Diocese I have sought and<br />
where they see God at work in our life after our marriage in 1980. Bud Shand<br />
companies focusing on human resource the church is called to be a source of hope<br />
Council.<br />
would seek as a clergy deputy nominee to<br />
together. I believe that as we recognize married us and baptized our daughters; he<br />
and merger/acquisition work. My<br />
and reconciliation. Jesus proclaimed, “You<br />
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General <strong>Convention</strong> be the kind of pastor<br />
and practice sharing with one another at has many stories to tell.<br />
experience also includes work in the are the light of the world… let your light<br />
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functions of chaplaincy, psychotherapy shine before others, so that they may see<br />
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