NEWS FROM THE SEARCH COMMITTEE

St. Paul's Search Committee was very pleased to receive the news of the diocesan appointment of the Rev. Nancy Miller as the new Interim Deployment Officer for El Camino Real. Nancy Miller is now the Search Advisor for St. Paul's Cambria as well as Arroyo Grande's St. Barnabas Church. The committee is glad to be working at full steam once again, now that Bishop Romero is in place and we have been assigned a new search advisor. Our first task has been to complete our Parish Search Request which will be submitted to the Church Deployment Office of the Episcopal Church Center in New York City by Reverend Miller.

Prior to Christmas, the search committee completed a profile for what we would like to see in our new rector, in addition to the parish and community profiles that are now on our church web site (stpauls@stpaulscambria.org) and are available for mailing to prospective rectors for St. Paul's. The committee appreciates the several confidential suggestions we have received, from time to time, in the suggestion box at the back of the church. To date we have received inquiries from ten prospective rectors who have expressed an interest in becoming St. Paul's new rector, 5 women and 5 men. Only two are from out of state. As we receive communications from these individuals, we request their profiles from the church deployment office and resumes from them individually. Once our Parish Search Request is received by the church's New York office and our listing is sent out in The Positions Open Listing, we expect to receive additional interest in St. Paul's, Cambria. At present we are concentrating on applicants from Province #8, which is primarily the western states.

The committee; Courtney Brockman, Bob Clunie, Anne Hubbard, Barbara Marks, Carol Schutz and Linda Turner, are looking forward to receiving all the applicants credentials so that we can study them and eventually make our recommendations to the Vestry. If you would like to recommend someone you think would be a great new rector, your committee would love to hear from you and we thank those who have already done so.
Thank you,
Bill Baker, Chairman