Name: Beck Grabau  - Elected
Church affiliation: St. Andrews, Saratoga

1) What can I contribute?
I have been on the board during Bishop Shimpfky’s last years and one year with standing committee’s leadership. I understand the necessary steps the diocese must and is taking to move into a new relationship with a new bishop that will need background and experienced officers to help her or him become effective.

2) Church activities
Sr. Warden
Bishop’s Warden
Education Superintendent
Vestry member
Stewardship chair
Sunday school teacher
Current member Diocesan Board of Directors

3) What major issues face the church today?
How to efficiently marshal the diocesan resources to allow the episcopal message to be delivered to all available. Strategic planning along with prudent management of our resources will greatly enhance the ability of our clergy and congregations to move further into evangelism.

Name: Malcolm C Greenidge - Elected
Church affiliation: St Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church, Morro Bay
 

1) What can I contribute?
Having served on the Corporation in the mid-eighties during the Diocese’s early
and formative years the issues and items we addressed are perhaps somewhat akin to those we are now experiencing as we move forward in developing the vision for our ministry. My activities have given me a sense of what can be accomplished with thoughtful and responsible planning and prayer. I have also served as parish treasurer which has provided me with a regard for using the resources available to best meet the needs of mission and ministry.
I feel these activities, along with my hope and desire to help the Diocese achieve its mission of renewal, will allow me, with God’s help, to make a meaningful contribution in this quest.

2) Church activities
Senior Warden at St Peter’s, finance committee, memorial garden committee and the annual audit commission. In other parishes I have served as senior warden 4 times, junior warden 2 times, treasurer 1 time, convention delegate 2 times, convention alternate delegate 2 times and commission member in establishing a regional missioner ministry for several parishes in Northern California.

3) What major issues face the church today?
I look at several issues which we are facing today which are somewhat
interrelated. The first is perhaps our aging parish population with its concomitant reduction in membership and loss of income from these parishioners. While we can expect to bring new members into the congregation, the financial support from these new parishioners seldom approaches that of those who are no longer with us. It will probably be sometime until parity is reached during which time costs are increasing adding to the problem. In light of this how do we meet our obligations for ministry and mission?

Membership is declining, what are the reasons and how might these be
identified and addressed so that actions and activities can be initiated to reverse this trend.

Name: Richard E. Wells
Church affiliation: St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Jose

1) What can I contribute?
Business experience as developer and manager. Church leadership experience as Senior Warden twice, including during the search and transition to a new rector. Interest in moving the diocese and parishes forward in the restructuring and reorganization to be come more effective in our missions and responsibilities.

2) Church activities
Currently vestry person with administrative leadership responsibility. I have been on the vestry twice before with Senior Warden responsibility both times. My family and I are active members of St. Francis Episcopal church.

3) What major issues face the church today?
I believe that the major challenges with the diocesan operation are to continue to redefine and evolve the operations to provide the central leadership and support to the parishes in the diocese, and to continue the reestablishment of the lines of communications at all levels.

The church’s major issues include how to grow the membership, and how to address the broad range of social divisive issues while staying true to its basic principles.

Name: Russ McBrien - Elected
Church affiliation: St. Thomas, Sunnyvale CA

1) What can I contribute?
As past President of the Diocesan Corporation I can contribute experience in the role. In addition my firm specializes in risk management and reduction for non-profit organizations. It would be a priviledge to share my experience with the Diocese.

2) Church activities I have participated in:
I have been an active choir member at St. Thomas for years and have served there as a member of the vestry and as senior warden. At the diocesan level I have had the priviledge of serving on the Diocesan Corporation and as it's president in the early 1990's.

3) What major issues face the church today.
As we work through the change of Bishops we have the ongoing issue of financial stability. Only with proper management of the Diocese's limited assets can we hope to continue the process of reaching out and growing the church.

The Episcopal church has so much to offer the world today. It is important that all ministries are able to move forward with reduced concern about financial support. It is important to manage our assets properly to enable those ministries.

Name: The Rev. Ken Wratten - Elected
Church affiliation: St. Stephen's in-the-Fields, San Jose

1) What can I contribute?
Before ordination I grew up in a family owned and operated business. I worked as a partner in that business as an adult. I have worked as an electrical engineer as a department manager for a Fortune 100 company. I have been a vice- president of a $2 billion manufacturing and engineering company. I have owned and operated an engineering consulting business. These career experiences have provided me training in engineering, administration, business plans, finance, marketing & sales, supervision, hiring, advertising, and project management. I also served on the Board of Trustees of St. Stephen's School for a year and a half. I offer these talents and gifts to the diocesan corporation.

2) Church activities
I am an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, and serve as vicar of St. Stephen's in-the-Fields in San Jose. Prior to ordination I served as Stephen Ministry Leader and Lay Leader. I have served as spiritual advisor on Happening and Cursillo weekend teams. My wife Ruth and I have served as supply couple for Marriage Encounter. I currently also serve on the Board for ECCO, and serve as their secretary.

3) What major issues face the church today?
The issue pulling at my spirit is the need for the diversity of this branch of Christendom to be seen as an asset and as a responsibility to educate, empower, and engage.

Name: The Rev. Dwight W. Edwards - Elected
Church Affiliation: Rector Emeritus, St. Mary's by-the-Sea, Pacific Grove

What I can contribute:
A lifelong commitment to the Church: nearly fifty years of pastoral ministry; two years as seminarian in charge of St. Luke’s, Jolon and St. Matthews, San Ardo; eighteen years as vicar and rector of St. Timothy’s, Mountain View; twenty six years as rector of St. Mary’s by the Sea, Pacific Grove.

Church Activities:
I served on various councils and committees of the Diocese of California, including presidency of the Standing Committee at the time of the prayer book revision and the ordination of women.

I was active in the founding of this diocese, serving in the planning and implementation of its proposal to General Convention, chairing the first conventions and as a planner for the installation of Bishop Mallory as first Bishop of El Camino Real at San Juan Bautista

I have been an Alternate to General Convention (1979) and a Deputy to General Convention (1985), and a member of various diocesan committees.

What Major Issues Face the Church Today?
To maintain hope and promise in the midst of societal uncertainties.

To encourage, educate and exemplify the gift of Christ which identifies each human being as a beloved of God

To reassure everyone that even with our individual peculiarities, we matter to the heart of God and, therefore to the Body of Christ, the Church.