Please prayerfully consider serving Grace as a member of our elected Vestry or as a Delegate to Diocesan Convention. This is a wonderful way to help lead and guide Grace toward the bright future we all want for our parish.
Elections are held each year at our Annual Meeting (the next one is January 25, 2026).Wardens normally serve a two-year term, Vestry members a three-year term, and Convention Delegates a one-year term. Currently we need to fill three vestry 3-year terms and one 2-year warden term (Junior Warden.) We also will be electing three Conventions Delegates and two alternates for a term of one-year.
Requirements for nomination are simple:
- be a baptized person age 18 or older
- baptized youth ages 16 to 18 may be nominated for a non-voting youth position on Vestry
- regularly attend worship and events at Grace
- be recognized as a member of the parish by the rector and at least one of the wardens
- whose names appear on the books of the Parish Treasurer as having contributed by pledge, by subscription or otherwise to the funds to meet the expenses or other obligations of the Parish during the six months immediately previous to the annual meeting, it being understood that the pledge or obligation for such contributions shall be incurred prior to the said six-month
- declare their willingness to conform to the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Church.
See job descriptions at this link.
Nomination form can be accessed via this link, and also available from Cherryl Holt, Senior Warden and Chair of the Nomination Committee. The other members of the Committee are Karen-Jo Mensch, Steve Kvaal, Liz Gould and Jan Palucci. Nominations close on December 15.
Please submit you nomination by email to. Jack Short, Parish Administrator, at office@graceoakpark.org
Nominations from the floor will also be accepted at the Annual Meeting.