Name: Dorothy J. Fuller (Dottie) - Elected, First Deputy
Church affiliation: Church of the Good Shepherd, Salinas

1) What can I contribute?
Experience gained from participation in the last 7 General Conventions.
!1nderstanding of the needs of El Camino Real gained through past membership in
DIEM, Diocesan Council, Standing Committee and current membership in Commission on Ministry.
Knowledge of the polity of the national church through membership on the Executive Council and participation in General Conventions.

2) Church activities
National: Council for Women's Ministries 1993-1998, Women in Mission and
Ministry Leadership Training, Elected by General Convention 2003 to serve a six year term on Executive Council. Member: Episcopal Women's Caucus, Integrity. Qiocese ofECR: General Convention Deputy 1997,2000, Chair of Deputation 2003, Alternate 1991,1994. Council 1991-95; DIEM 1996-99; Standing Committee 2000-04: COM 2004-05.
Parish: Delegate/alternate to ECR convention since 1986. Currently: LEM. lector, choir, altar guild.

3) What major issues face the church today?
Growth: Increasing and diversifying membership among ethnic, age, and economic parameters.
Church Planting: Evangelizing in areas of new population growth.
Youth and Young Adults: Strengthening our ministries in the under 40-age group and supporting young people in their discernment of lay and ordained ministries. Reconciliation: Deepening our understanding of the Gospel message as we struggle with issues of human sexuality. Seeking a way to keep everyone at the table as we explore the richness of our communion.

Name: James Wilson - Elected, First Alternate
Church affiliation: St. Paul's, Cambria

1) What can I contribute?
Experience with the convention process and issues as first alternate and lay deputy to the Convention in 2003. A pragmatic approach to problem solving. A feeling for the basic positions of the people of El Camino Real.

2) Church activities
I have held every lay parish office during a 50 year history in three parishes. I served a four-year term on the Standing Committee of the Diocese of El Camino Real (1996 to 2000). I have been a delegate to diocesan conventions in Los Angeles and El Camino Real for most of my adult life. I have served on four special committees in our Diocese since 1990.

3) What major issues face the church today?
The finding of a willingness to do the work of the Church rather than the politics of the Church.

Name: Gordon W. Gritter - Elected, Third Deputy
Church affiliation: St. Stephen’s, San Luis Obispo

1) What can I contribute?
Ever since I was led into the Episcopal Church in 1962 I have had an. enduring love for the Gospel, liturgical worship, and the Church as family and as organization. I have taken many opportunities to learn and grow, to participate and serve, in many ways at all levels of the Church. Thus I feel that I am equipped to be useful, in motivation, humility, and faith I also bring to the Church the accumulated experience of 4&-years as a physician, fully qualified in Psychiatry of an eclectic and wide-ranging kind, with background and skills in evaluation and understanding of people and of myself as one of them. I also bring administrative experience, having held significant positions in both large and small professional and public organizations. Alongside and woven through those activities have been the many deep and broad years of family and community life, joys and responsibilities.

2) Church activities
Diocese of California, Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley (1962-73): Choir, Lay reader, Vestry, Sr. Warden, regularly annual delegate to Diocesan Convention, Cursillo, Diocesan committees including Restructure and Renewal, Standing Committee, President of Deanery of Marin. Diocese of Michigan, St. Paul's, Corunna (1973-76): Lay reader, Vestry, Licensed to preach, Delegate to Diocesan Convention. Church of New Zealand, Diocese of Wellington, St. Peter's, Wellington (1976-79): parish activities, Lay reader, observer at National Synod. Diocese of Michigan, All Saints' , East Lansing (1979-82): parish activities, Lay reader.
Diocese of El Camino Real, St. Stephen's, San Luis Obispo (1982-2004): Choir, Lay reader, Adult education,Vestry, Jr. Warden, Sr. Warden, regularly annual delegate to Diocesan Convention, Deanery Convenor, Diocesan Commission on Ministry, Diocesan Commission on Human Sexuality, Integrity, Board of Examining Chaplains, Episcopal Search Committee, Standing Committee (1990-94, 1996-99, 2001-2004, President 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004; Deputy to General Convention (1994, 1997, 2000 (Chair of Deputation), 2003).

3) What major issues face the church today?
At the parish level: Many parishes are struggling to maintain themselves. During recent decades there has been a persistent pattern of adolescents and young adults leaving the Church, and not returning when they establish families and become middle-aged. The remaining population is aging. It has become difficult to maintain many of the worship and program activities which characterize a healthy parish, and to maintain the economic viability of parishes. Subtle racism continues to be a problem. Non-Anglo people nave not been readily assimilated. Many people are distressed about liberal/conservative conflicts, and issues about human sexuality.

At the Diocesan level: The Diocese of El Camino Real, after several years of struggle, succeeded in bringing about the resignation of Bishop Shimpfky in 2004. The Standing Committee, having become the Ecclesiastical Authority, is now carrying out a complete reappraisal of all diocesan structures, functions, and policies. It has achieved the active cooperation of the Diocesan Council, Corporation, DIEM, Commission on Ministry, Strategic Planning Commission, and staff. The objective is to build a diocese which is organizationally coherent and effective explicit in its mission and goals, and operationally transparent to its members. The Diocese is preparing to carry out a search process by which to choose a new bishop. The Diocese continues to lack sufficient financial resources for adequate staffing and program.

At the national and international level: ECUSA, together with other 'main-line' denominations, finds itself embedded in an increasingly secular culture which regards Christianity as essentially archaic and irrelevant. On the other hand, much of the U.S. continues to be strongly oriented toward religious faith and practice, including various forms of spirituality. Many people perceive the 'main-line' churches as preoccupied with maintaining traditional institutions rather than development of spirituality. ECUSA finds itself in an unfortunate competition with churches which are essentially congregationally oriented and are adapting themselves to popular demands for simplistic faith, traditional morality, and contemporary worship.

Those Americans who are keenly concerned and involved in addressing local, national, and international social needs tend to perceive the Church as not only inadequate in its response to urgent issues (health, mental health, infants and children, education, employment, poverty, homelessness, aging, world economics, civil rights, civil and tribal strife), but as having a massive inertia which impedes effective action. At the same time, ECUSA is under attack by some groups within itself, and by some portions of the Anglican Communion, which regard it as too liberal and even "apostate".  Both because of its internal issues and its external circumstances ECUSA is hard-pressed economically.

Name: Patrick Waddell - Elected, Fourth Deputy
Church affiliation: St. Luke’s, Los Gatos

1) What can I contribute?
I have been a member of the Diocesan Deputation to the General Convention since 1991. I served as Recording Secretary for the Cognate Committee (Bishops and Deputies meeting as one Committee) on Canons in 2003, and hope to be reappointed in 2006. I have also served on National “interim bodies.” This results in an in depth knowledge of our National Church organization and leadership which is helpful to our Diocese.

2) Church activities
Deputy or Alternate Deputy since 1991.
Parish Delegate or Alternate Delegate to this Convention since 1980.
Member, (National Church) Committee on Sexual Exploitation, 1992 to 1997
Member, Ecclesiastical Trial Court
Member, Committee on Constitution and Canons
Parish Vestry member, Acolyte, Eucharistic Minister, Acolyte Trainer, Youth Leader
(Oh, and I also usually provide the Convention sound)

3) What major issues face the church today?
The toughest question gets the least space! As a Church we face issues that emerge from the society in which we live. I am not speaking of sexual issues, but rather how we, as a community of Christians in faithful response to our Baptismal Covenant engage, educate, and convert a post-modern world that has never heard the message of the Gospel. This is a situation the Church has not found itself dealing with since 420 AD! I do not have a trite answer, but pledge to work hard to get the Church engaged and moving forward

Name: Frank Snow - Elected, Second Deputy
Church Affiliation: St. Jude's, Cupertino

What I can contribute:
I am an experienced Deputy (GC2003), Alternate (GC2000) and Committee member C21-GC2000. I have a deep interest in the structure and operation of both the national church and the diocese.

Church Activities:
Secretary Diocese of El Camino Real; West Valley Deanery representative to Diocesan Council, Diocesan Strategic Planning Task Force, Bishop's Warden, Jr. Warden, Clerk of the Vestry, Vestry member, Outreach Chair, Teen program co-chair, Search Committee Chair, Search Committee, Parish Strategic Planning facilitator, Stewardship trainer.

What Major Issues Face the Church Today?
At both the national and diocesan level the context in which these organizations operate has radically changed and continues to evolve. Both the national church and the diocese must understand these new contexts and evolve revised structures and approaches to effectively carry out our fundamental mission.  The Windsor Report 2004 from Lambeth Council calls us to careful consideration of the effects of our actions on the Anglican Communion and raises questions for us about how we are to be in the world at large which is not worried about the same issues, at the same level of priority.