Annual Meeting 27 January 2019
Order of Business 27 January 2019
Welcome & Prayer Declaration of a Quorum & Minutes
Richard Lawson (Dean) Tom Keyse (Senior Warden)
Vestry Elections Senior Warden’s Report Director of Operations Financial Report
Capital Projects Report Christian Formation Pastoral Care Canon Precentor’s Report Saint Francis Apartments Questions & Answers
Tom Keyse Audrey Chapman Tom Barbour (Treasurer) Jack Denman (Vestry Member) Tina Clark (Director of Christian Formation) and Christina Rutland (Youth Minister) Pat Petrash (Lay Leader, Spiritual Direction) Broderick Greer Fran Trujillo (fltrujillo6964@gmail.com) Dean & Senior Warden
Motion to Adjourn
* The Dean’s Sermon will serve as the Dean’s Report. It will be available at sjcathedral.org/sermons.
Meet Your Vestry Nominees
JENNIFER ALLEN
Beyond Vestry, I serve our community as a leader of the Middle School Youth Group. Giving our kids and youth as feeling of place and belonging that they can carry with them into adulthood is my personal goal in this work. I am also a member of the Finance Committee. Professionally, I am the co-owner of 52eighty Ventures, a general contracting company in Denver.
Vestry Nominee The community of Saint John’s Cathedral has been a vital source of support and encouragement to me in my journey of faith. My husband, Kevin, and I made our way to Saint John’s soon after moving to Colorado over 20 years ago. The children’s programs and youth activities are woven into the lives of our three children - all now adults. The study and discernment process to become a storyteller for the children’s education program was a transformative experience for me. I dearly loved working with elementary-aged children for many years. More recently, I enjoyed a complete immersion experience by helping to fill the eight-month gap between the retirement of Kim McPherson and the hiring of Tina Clark as our Director of Christian Formation and doing so with the support of scores of fellow volunteers. That experience made clear the strength of Saint John’s is in the people offering their hearts and talents to the joyful work of growing this community - all of us seeking and serving God in each other and in the larger community. We are blessed with clergy and staff who fully support lay leadership and involvement in so many aspects of our life together.
I have loved serving you as a member of the Vestry. I started this work when we were still very much in transition, waiting for Richard, and subsequently Katie and Broderick to arrive. The transformation I’ve witnesses in our community has been so beautiful. In a world that often feels bent towards conflict I appreciate the care, concern and openness is which the members of Vestry approach difficult decisions and the support and love the parish provides in the execution of these decisions. These are exciting and challenging times and I would love to receive your support and continue this work. Again, I am so honored to be considered for the Vestry and I hope I’ll receive your support.
BILL FINCH Vestry Nominee
Vestry Nominee
I’m a cradle Episcopalian who became a member of Saint John’s Cathedral in 2013, after retiring from the Denver Police Department as a lieutenant. I was a police officer for 31 years, much of it spent working on Capitol Hill, first as a patrol officer, then sector sergeant and eventually as the night-shift commander of the police district for this neighborhood. From this, I have an extensive background in participating in the creative and collaborative process of working towards finding solutions among divergent opinions.
I am honored to be a candidate to serve the Vestry of Saint John’s Cathedral for a second term. I was baptized at Saint John’s and grew up in this community. I buried my father and more recently I was married here. I have a deep love and appreciation for the Cathedral, not only as a physical place that I know as well as my own childhood home but also as a community that is steadfast and remains open and inviting to all of us as we walk a path exploring the beautiful faith and tradition of being not only a Christian but an Episcopalian.
As a member of the Buildings and Grounds Commission, I gained valuable insight into the funding and operational complexities necessary for us to continue to be good stewards of this very special place, our church home. In my position as safety advisor on the commission, I advised the cathedral leadership on threat assessments, evaluated the existing electronic security systems and other access-control safeguards, and revised various safety policies and procedures. From my recommendations, significant improvements were made. I wrote the cathedral’s Safety and Security Policy, which was unanimously approved by the vestry in 2015 and remains in effect today. It outlines
In addition to involvement with several education committees over the years, I have served on the personnel committee and helped organize the women’s retreats. I have enjoyed serving on the Vestry these last two years and am honored to stand for re-election. Thank you for your consideration.
ELIZABETH (SPRINGER) DRUMMOND
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prevention strategies and intervention tactics intended to make Saint John’s a safer place for people to come worship, work and visit.
soar, and its supportive family reaches out to embrace those in Denver who most need love in their lives. It’s the spirit of this time of year that has inspired me to seek Vestry nomination, and to do all I can to help the important mission we pursue.
I helped to establish and then oversee the program in which Denver Police officers were hired to work, off-duty, at the cathedral on Sundays, Cathedral Nights and at other times throughout the year. Now in its fifth year, the program has been very successful. Officers have prevented many harmful or disruptive acts from occurring; and when a law-enforcement or medical intervention became necessary, their presence proved extremely helpful. Another benefit has been the officers’ ability to effectively assist persons who walk up to them at Saint John’s asking for help with resources for the homeless.
Saint John’s has always been a part of our family, even though I grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. It was my Dad’s church as a child, where he served as an Acolyte, and I remember attending services, sitting in awe of the windows and the candle-lit columns, when we would come up to visit my Grandmother. She taught me so much about charity and service by baking for the church bazaar back then, and she now rests eternally with my Grandfather on All Souls Walk. This family history has always kept me tied to Saint John’s. As an adult, I reconnected first through The Wilderness service and then Catechumenate, leading to my confirmation last Easter with Bishop O’Neill, before his retirement. Now, with Rev. Kym Lucas starting her tenure, I am again reminded of the natural cycle of things as the history of our cathedral continues to unfold.
I have trained the staff and clergy, vergers, acolytes and ushers on situational awareness of potential safety problems and how best to respond to them. Last year, I spoke about church safety to the national convention of the Vergers Guild of the Episcopal Church, and with another parishioner presented an adult formation program on fraud awareness and prevention at a recent Cathedral Night. I am a member of the Care Advisory Board, which supports the Share the Care ministry by providing information regarding community service, and by developing educational ideas for training and workshops for the congregation and community. I recently represented Saint John’s as a lay delegate to the 131st Annual Colorado Diocesan Convention, where we voted for a new bishop.
My lifelong ties to Saint John’s have led me to feel called to action, and I believe my experiences will lend valuable skills to the Vestry as we navigate the important decisions facing us. For 12 years, I served on the Colorado Steering Committee for the Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest civil rights organization for LGBTQ equality. Much of that time I had the honor of being the state’s Chair and representing Colorado on the national Board of Governors. We were tasked with the very similar mission of shaping how to change hearts and minds in our community and to stewarding the critical financial resources entrusted to us. It was absolutely the highlight of my volunteer career with HRC when full marriage equality was won in 2015! Especially in these divisive and polarizing times, I believe that Christ’s examples of love and respect for human dignity are more critical than ever to heal and move forward.
After completing the 2013-2014 catechumate class at Saint John’s, I reaffirmed my baptismal vows. I now serve as a table host for the current class. I’m a graduate of the Episcopal Church’s four-year Education for Ministry course. I have served here as an acolyte. My wife Judy and I have one daughter and three grandchildren. Judy, her mother Bonnie, and I live in Applewood. I’m a dog lover and an aspiring landscape painter.
Professionally, I work in environment, health and safety at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden under the Department of Energy, and I am a licensed real estate broker with the state of Colorado - two additional skill sets I hope will prove useful in service.
ALEX LINDQUIST Vestry Nominee
It is my passion for social justice, my non-profit organizational leadership experience, and my lifelong roots in Saint John’s that have moved me to seek membership in the Vestry. In my reflections this winter, I ask God to lend my mind, my heart and my hands to the Cathedral, in service of this incredible community as we come together to enact His important work.
Winter is the perfect time each year for quiet reflection and discernment, when we pause for much-needed rest, ahead of the excitement and energy of a new year. It is in these months that I think the parish community of Saint John’s Church in the Wilderness shines brightest! Its architecture and liturgy
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MARILYN NEWELL
formalize the place of advocacy in our work. I have also coled the Loaves and Fishes July food drive for the last two years. I am excited about how Saint John’s Faith in Action work is growing and the support this work has received from our clergy and our community. I am hopeful that we as a community can become an even stronger force for love, mercy, and justice in Denver and beyond.
Vestry Nominee It is my honor to be considered for the Vestry of Saint John’s Cathedral. The role of the Vestry to oversee the financial responsibilities of the Cathedral is near and dear to my heart and professional background. I enjoyed a 25+ year career in the Investment Banking business located in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles, affiliated with major banking and investment banking institutions. Having grown up in the Methodist Church, I was confirmed into the Episcopal Church on April 9, 1977, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. The three-legged stool of scripture, tradition, and reason has been the mainstay of my life. I served on two vestries at parishes in in California.
It has been my great joy to help out in other facets of our common life at Saint Johns as well. I have been active in Saint John’s vibrant children’s ministry for eleven years, serving on the Nursery Committee and as a storyteller in the Pre-K Godly Play classroom. I have served on the Grants Committee for the last three years and had the privilege of learning about many of our ministry partners. I’ve gardened, cooked, helped with stewardship calls, and assisted with the Women’s Homelessness Initiative. And while I am not much of a musician, I have watched my son thrive in our extraordinary children’s choir for over six years.
My service involvement at Saint John’s includes Eucharistic Visitors, Share and Care Ministry, Stewardship Committee, and a Congregational Discernment Committee. On the Diocesan level and at the request of Canon Lou Blanchard, I organized an effort to outline and document a protocol of succession and sustainability for the Twelve Institutions.
By profession, I am an environmental attorney. I currently work for the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment; I previously worked for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and Hogan Lovells. I have a 2006 J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
It is inspirational to be a member of this spiritual family. To be a part of assuring the growth, vibrancy, and delivery of our mission as a legacy for the burgeoning population of our youth and children would be thrilling for me.
I would bring to the Vestry a love of our community and a vision of an open, joyful, diverse church centered in Christ and committed to justice. I am also a pragmatist skilled at listening, facilitation, and compromise who would help move all of the Vestry’s important work forward.
MEG PARISH
A PRAYER FOR DISCERNING OUR VESTRY LEADERS
Vestry Nominee I love Saint Johns and would be honored to serve our community on the Vestry if chosen. My family and I (Griff, Ben (11) and Ginny (4)) have been parishioners at Saint Johns for eleven years. Saint Johns is home and I am thankful for our wonderful community and clergy. For the last four years, I have worked with a number of extraordinary people at Saint Johns to build up some of our work beyond our Cathedral walls, particularly how we as a community can more publicly speak out and work for justice and peace among all people. To this end I helped work for the establishment of Saint John’s current Faith in Action Commission and have served on it since its start in 2016. While on the Commission, I have worked to build up the Commission, strengthen our ministry partnerships, and
Almighty and ever living God, source of all wisdom and understanding, teach us in all things to seek your honor and glory. By your Holy Spirit, open the hearts and minds of the people of Saint John’s as we earnestly ask your guidance in choosing our Vestry leaders. In all things, grant us the courage to pursue your will in our ministries, and the grace to accomplish it, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, forever. Amen 7
From the Treasurer
Through wise and deliberate use of these campus improvement funds from 2017 the 2019 budget will continue this work with a remaining balance of approximately $650k. Priority projects in 2019 include completion of remediation projects in the music basement and garths followed by:
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n behalf of the Finance Committee I would like to extend deep appreciation to the incredible groups and individuals who mindfully manage the financial affairs of Saint John’s Cathedral. These groups include the Investment Committee, the Audit Committee, the Vestry, the clergy, the administration, Saint John’s staff, lay leaders, and all who bring their unique experience and talents to help carefully guide the fiscal success of this great institution.
• a permanent A.D.A. concrete ramp to get from Clarkson to St. Martins • an update to our archives • perimeter sidewalks and some interior sidewalk repairs
One of the simplest measures of our financial success is our ability to balance our annual budget. Our long-term stability depends on matching recurring revenues to recurring expenses. In 2018 the Vestry approved a budget with a known deficit of $175k. Through a year of constant oversight and management and with the support of the Finance Committee, the Vestry, and our auditors we identified an unrestricted surplus in 2018 allowing us to balance our year end deficit of $157k. While we celebrate our success of both reducing our deficit and balancing the 2018 budget, we humbly continue our resolve to achieving long term stability with recurring income matching recurring expenses.
ENDOWMENT In 2017, $4M was withdrawn from the endowment: $2M for campus improvements and $2M to pay off the line of credit. In that same year the total return on the endowment investments was over $2M. In the words of audit committee chair Chuck Thompson, “the market returned half of what was taken out”. With the wise stewardship of Investment Committee chair Giles Fox and his committee the endowment remains a strong and critical component of the balance sheet with additional diversification to foreign markets newly added in 2018.
AUDIT In fiscal year 2018 the 2017 JDS professional group audit of consolidated financial statements ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The only technicality is a qualification on the depreciation of property and equipment; a difference that is congruent with most churches. This highly successful audit is a testament to the professionalism of the administration staff in addition to the experience of the audit committee led by Chuck Thompson.
LONG RANGE PLAN While 2019 looks very promising, our challenges toward a sustainably balanced budget in the future remain real. The Finance Committee and the Vestry have a five year plan in place that guides our decisions. It is clear that we must have additional sources of income, other than pledges, which are growing, and the endowment draw, which is reducing. Therefore, the Vestry is considering potential uses of the Kimberly that would provide such an income stream. In light of our conversations with professionals, I am confident that we have great options for this project. Without such an income stream, however, we would likely return to six figure deficits in future years.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES In 2018 $638k was spent from the 2017 $2M portion of the endowment draw designated for campus improvements. Some of those major projects included remediations and improvements to the: parking lot garth parish building floor kitchen dagwell hall floor cathedral lighting sewer elevator masonry music basement hearing Loop asbestos abatement
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2019 Path to Sustainability 2018 Deficit of $157,091 2019 Surplus of $59,749 2018 Completed Capital Projects including: asbestos abatement, parking lot resurfacing, hearing loop installation, theatrical lighting in the cathedral, and individual controls added to radiators in the cathedral Upcoming Capital Projects: garths and music basement waterproofing, remediation, and reconstruction, A.D.A compliant, permanent ramp update to exterior entrance to Saint Martins Chapel, update of the archives department, and repair and reconstruction to perimeter and some interior concrete sidewalks 2019 Endowment Draw – Continues to exclude non-liquid assets (2018 was the first year they were excluded) 2020 Endowment Draw – Begins decreasing from 5% to 4% (decreases by a quarter of 1% annually from 2020-2023) 2019 Pledges: $1,320,164 – a 6% increase 2019 Budget cuts: $64,164 in expenses SJC has committed not to fund budget deficits with debt 3 full-time clergy now and in the future Wartburg lease ended December 2018 Feasibility study continues for the Kimberly. Meanwhile, for at least the first six months of 2019 the Kimberly is being rented and managed by Real Property Management with net revenues being paid to SJC and included in SJC’s 2019 Operating Revenues
REVENUE
EXPENSES
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Operating Expenses
Operating Support & Revenue
(783)
Net Result: Operating Support & Revenue Over Operating Expenses
150 3,113
692 3,199
(917)
532 1,010 1,406 211 221 402 219 29 4,030
473 1,206
3,297
595 1,568 1,367 157 127 478 248 4,540
161 1,234 4,100 643 7,837
2016 2017 Audited Audited 1,284 1,699
321 885
2015 Audited 1,301
488 628 1,727 208 136 449 307 39 3,982
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Administration Buildings and Grounds Worship and Ministry Christian Formation Communications Music Stewardship Dean Transition Total
Earned Income (Rental, Fees, Interest and Other) Distributuions from endowment Net Assets Released from Designation Net Assets Released from Restrictions Total Support & Revenue
Pledges, Annual Giving, Contributions and Bequests
Financial Summary
(157)
600,898 1,341,561 1,246,755 184,593 124,196 395,810 26,764 3,921
199 1,227 667 169 3,764
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572 1,220 1,276 236 118 434 3,857
374 1,197 650 138 3,917
2018 2019 Proposed Pre-Audit Budget 1,502 1,558
St. Francis Apartments It’s been almost a year and the St. Francis Apartments at Cathedral Square and Saint John’s have developed a steady and growing relationship. We began with three volunteer projects: van driving to Metro Caring, workshops on a variety of topics (knitting/crocheting; journal writing; poetry and drawing; cooking healthy meals; weaving and more), and a monthly community meal. We’ve now grown to include a Friday morning community gathering, a gardening group including both volunteers and residents who carefully tend the rooftop gardens, a birthday party every six months, a contribution of a CSA share which includes a twice monthly cooking class, and field trip buddies. We also arranged a concert event in December. We’re busy in the best possible ways. It isn’t about quantities of activities or residents participating or volunteers working with residents. It’s about growing a relationship with neighbors in meaningful ways. It isn’t about doing this quickly and then checking it off. It’s about gently developing experiences that grow the knowledge of our volunteers and our neighbors. We know we’re growing in the right ways when residents and volunteers know each other’s names, happily greet one another at a monthly meal or at one of the other activities.Volunteers would readily tell you they know so much more and that their hearts have grown. Residents would do the same. We still have needs for volunteers, so please contact Fran (fltrujillo6964@gmail.com)
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