Among the parish's most recent outreach to the neighbourhood is an after-school tutoring and feeding program. Bishop elect Waynick views her role as rector primarily as corporate spiritual guide, and to enhance her skills in that area she is enrolled in a Doctor of Ministry program at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. You have identified issues which are troubling to the Church and our society in general. One not mentioned, but which must be addressed, is sexuality. You have the diversity to provide you with an understanding of the challenges and needs of both urban and rural communities, and you are of a size which makes collegiality and mutual concern possible among congregations.
Clergy seem to want enhance their own sense of community, which can benefit the life of any diocese.
Indianapolis seems poised to move into the next century with renewed and strengthened faith and vision. May your tenth bishop be someone who can affirm what you already claim as fruitful, and who will be willing to move into troubled waters with you. The Good News is that troubled waters often part or become calm when we enter them in faith and good will, and in response to God's call.