Name: J. Holmes Armstead, Jfl.
Church affiliation: St. Andrews-Ben Lomond

1) What can I contribute?
35 yrs as a lawyer and legal scholar, participation in a number of boards and businesses, and work as an arbitator understanding both concepts of justice within a rule based system and the need for an organization to administer itself with a sense of fairness and mercy to members accused of violating its provisions.

2) Church activities:
Former vestry member, provided legal counsel over the past
7 yrs to St Andrews

3) What major issues face the church today?
Recruiting new clergy and members - ministering to underserved communities and providing demonstrations of Christian values in our daily lives.
 

Name: Janet Mize - Elected
Church affiliation: St. John the Baptist, Capitola


1) What can I contribute?
As a real estate broker in California and Nevada, I served on the professional standards and ethics committees for both the Tahoe Sierra and Incline Village Boards of Realtors for 13 years, from 1981 to 1994. As such, I participated on and chaired many arbitration and ethics hearings. I was also trained as a mediator, but I only mediated one dispute before my retirement in 1994. Although my experience is extensive, it is not current.

2) Church activities
At St. John's, I am the coordinator of lay pastoral care ministries, a L.E.M.II, the UTO coordinator, serve on the Canterbury Site Team (for the development of our new site) as the overseer of the sale of the Depot Hill
property.

3) What major issues face the church today?
Relevance. We seem not to be seen by the non-churched, the outside world, as having a relevant role in society. Sadly, in fact, we have become a negative role model since we, having differences, cannot work together under one identity. If the Episcopal Church could honor those within our ranks with whom we disagree and show understanding and respect for our differences, we could be a powerful and positive role model for the world. We could show the world how to live together in peace while acknowledging our cultural differences.