Eastern Shore Episcopalian - Pre-Convention 2020

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How do we accomplish that? Frankly, I
don’t know. I DO know we must be open
to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Prayer
is the most powerful tool we each have;
corporate and individual prayer empowers
the Jesus Movement. And I’d like to
witness that happening.
General Convention Deputation, Lay -
Kathy Wise
As a member of
Great Choptank
Parish,Christ Episcopal
Church, Cambridge,
in the Middle
Convocation, I have
served in many roles –
both in my own church
and in positions
in the Diocese of
Easton. I have loved opportunities to
be a Eucharistic Minister and Worship
Leader, a member of a shared-leadership
Bible Study group, a delegate to Diocesan
Convention, a Vestry member, Senior
Warden, and part of our parish Search
Committees. In the Diocese, I have been
a Deputy to four, and an alternate to
two General Conventions, served on the
Standing Committee, the Commission
on Ministry, the Youth Task Force, as
a Consultant to churches for Mutual
Ministry Reviews and Search Committees,
and most recently as the Co-Chair of the
Transition Committee for the election of
Bishop Marray.
church where God is at work in our lives,
we become more comfortable sharing our
faith stories beyond the church walls. My
vision for the Church and for the Diocese
is to see growing opportunities at the
Diocesan level, and within and between
our individual churches, for equipping our
members to become more comfortable
and more skilled at sharing their faith
stories with one another. As we learn to do
this with fellow believers, we will become
better able to share our stories of Jesus’
love and grace in our families, in our work
places, and in the communities where
we live, being light and salt throughout
the Shore. Caring for the business of our
churches and the Diocese is important;
“equipping the saints” is essential!
General Convention Deputation, Lay -
Jim Kamihachi
I am a member of
St. Mark’s Church
in Perryville, at the
edge of the Northern
Convocation. It’s
a wonderful, small
church with an
inclusive Christian
community and
well-worth a visit.
Currently, I am a deacon-in-training,
Chairman of the Diversity Awareness
Commission, and a member of the
Constitution and Canons Committee. I
am a past member of the Commission on
Ministry.
Bishop San reassigned me to St. Mark’s last
March, and since then I have assisted in
nearly every Sunday service, occasionally
leading Morning Prayer. I also help give
out food to the needy at the monthly
church food pantry, and I continue to
assist Fr. John Schaeffer at his 12-step
services and unload delivery trucks for the
Outreach program at St. Mary Anne’s in
North East. I take comfort in less visible
service, such as cleaning up after church
functions.
I devoted my career to regulatory policy
and spent 20 years in the federal service
at the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Office of Management and Budget, and
the Treasury Department. When I retired
from government, I was the Sr. Deputy
Comptroller for Economic and Policy
Analysis at the Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, the administrator of national
banks. I was at Promontory Financial
Group for 17 years, working with banks on
compliance risk management. In earlier
days, I led the Mayor of Seattle’s policy
staff and was a member of the Board of the
family business.
General Convention Deputation, Lay -
Sandy Bjork
I am a RN with a B.S. in Health Care
Administration and a J.D. with a certificate
in Health Law. My career path has been
direct patient care, utilization review and
case management. Following Law School,
I worked with members of the radiology
community developing guidelines and
standards for radiologic procedures.
My husband and I enjoy travel in the
US and abroad, golf, and local theater. I
was pleased to spend almost ten years of
singing with the Chester River Chorale.
We are fortunate to have our children and
grandchildren living on the Western Shore
and in New York so there are many trips
back over the Bay Bridge.
I see the vision of the church already being
played out in response to Bishop Curry’s
The Way of Love and particularly in the
reconciliation efforts through the Sacred
Ground initiative. When we can see God
in the face of every human no matter who
they might be or where we might find
them, then we will be accomplishing the
mission of Jesus.
General Convention Deputation, Clergy
- Kevin Cross
and respiratory therapy.
At work and in my communities I
have served as a member and leader of
numerous task forces and committees
including DOE’s Standing Committee,
the Diocesan Council, the Commission
on Ministry, the Bishop’s Listening
Committee, and as a deputy to the
78th annual General Convention of the
Episcopal Church. At that convention
I co-authored two resolutions adopted
by the convention regarding new church
alcohol and drug policies.
As a founding member of the Diocesan
Youth Missioner committee I helped
establish and fund our diocesan Youth
Missioner position. I founded the
diocesan Recovery Ministry committee
and served for two years as President of
the Board of Recovery Ministries of the
Episcopal Church. I currently serve the
diocese as chair of the Bishops’ committee
to Camp Wright, a member of the Camp
Wright development committee and
continue the work of the recovery ministry
team.
I have been a guest lecturer at General
Theological School and national
conferences on Youth, Addiction and
Spirituality. For the Diocese of Fredericton
I served on the Human Resources
committee and Secretary and Treasurer for
the deanery of St. Andrews.
your good works and give glory to your
Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14- 16 The
darkness of divisiveness has taken over
the world. Jesus calls the church to be a
change agent, transforming the darkness
of division into the light of peace and
harmony. Together we can shed light on
the goodness of God. Just as the mirror in
a lighthouse projects light to guide ships
safely home, we can be mirrors of Christ’s
light. The light of Christ can banish the
darkness of the world and illuminate the
way toward creating a glimpse of God’s
kingdom here on earth. We can be the
change..
General Convention Deputation, Clergy
- Charlie Osberger
The Very Reverend
Charlie Osberger,
rector of Wye Parish,
Queenstown and Wye
Mills, Dean of the
Middle Convocation.
Graduated from the
University of Southern
California, Fuller
Seminary, Pasadena,
California and Trinity Episcopal School
for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Recently married to the Reverend Frieda
Malcolm.
I have been blessed to
After my retirement
serve on the eastern
as a nurse attorney, we
shore as rector of The
moved to Chestertown
Church of the Holy
A vision for the church: I believe in the
in 2007. I have been
Trinity, Oxford since Currently in addition to continuing Church, “that wonderful and sacred
an active member of
March of 2010. Prior diocesan work I serve on the board mystery” real and sacramental, local and
Emmanuel Church,
to moving to the of Talbot Hospice and serve on the
universal, in but not of the world, the
I have been a clinical social worker for over
50 years, working as a family therapist,
and before retiring, as the program
administrator for home visiting and school
based heath prevention programs. After
being a widow for 16 years, I remarried
eleven years ago, and my husband, Doug
Ridley, and I are enjoying sharing family
events with children, grandchildren and
As Christians, we are called to be living
examples of God’s love and an antidote
to the divisiveness in our country and
the world. The future of the Episcopal
church lies in service to communities
outside church walls, extending ourselves
to people who are not like us, just as Jesus
did.
Chester Parish in the
Northern Convocation,
where I have been a
choir member, helped
with the Kitchen Krew, Flower Guild,
choir, other parish activities and am
currently Senior Warden. With my health
care background, I have been honored
to serve on the Board of For All Seasons,
eastern shore with my
wife Barbara, I was
ordained a priest in
the Anglican Church of Canada where
I served as priest-in-charge of a small a
parish in the Diocese of Fredericton (New
Brunswick). Holy Trinity is a vibrant
parish which continues to grow spiritually,
numerically and financially in new and
chaplaincy staff of the National Cathedral.
I also serve as chaplain to the Oxford
Police and Fire Departments. For the past
three years I have also served as a visiting
priest at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican
Church in the Caribbean and raised funds
to assist the Diocese of the North Eastern
Caribbean and Aruba with their recovery
from hurricane Irma.
People of God declaring the purposes
of God in Creation. All this means to
me the church is gifted by grace to be
persons made new by the power of the
Holy Spirit, seeking to live courageously
for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In a world
progressively divided by the idols of this
age, our deepest need is to be present as a
reconciling community able to act upon
great grandchildren, travel opportunities,
the behavioral health and rape crisis
exciting ways each year.
the implications of the Gospel and to reach
My wife and son and I live in Elkton.
My vision for the church, enthusiastically
and participating together in church and
center, serving the five mid Shore counties
out to our neighbors with a real grace,
We also have two daughters and six
Pastoral work has always been at the core embraces our responsibility as followers of
community activities.
and am currently vice president of the
mercy and goodness that brings hope
grandchildren. We lived in Alexandria,
of my vocations and along with strong Jesus Christ to teach, model, and inspire
Chester River Health Foundation Board.
in the midst of despair and confusion.
As the chair of our Stewardship
VA for 25 years, where our daughters
leadership skills is a leading strength the love and mercy of God in ourselves,
I have learned a lot and continue to learn
This kind of authentic church asks to
Committee, I have been inviting
attended the Episcopal diocese school. I
of my ministry. Prior to following this our congregations, and the world beyond
about the functioning of the Diocese or
be equipped and sent by the mission of
parishioners to share each Sunday what am a three-generation Episcopalian on my
calling I worked for over 25 years as a the boundaries of church and diocese.
Easton by being privileged to serve on the
God in the world . Throughout my life of
they celebrate about our church, and about father’s side, though I fell into the Church
senior executive in Fortune 100 financial Amidst the divisiveness of today’s world,
Commission on Ministry and Diocesan
service in this Diocese I have sought and
where they see God at work in our life after our marriage in 1980. Bud Shand
companies focusing on human resource the church is called to be a source of hope
Council.
would seek as a clergy deputy nominee to
together. I believe that as we recognize married us and baptized our daughters; he
and merger/acquisition work. My
and reconciliation. Jesus proclaimed, “You
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General Convention be the kind of pastor
and practice sharing with one another at has many stories to tell.
experience also includes work in the are the light of the world… let your light
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functions of chaplaincy, psychotherapy shine before others, so that they may see
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