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Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. ReddallOne of my first actions as your bishop was to send out a Pastoral Letterdescribing new intake procedures for Title IV, the Episcopal Church’s means foraddressing clergy misconduct. We now have a single email:TitleIV@azdiocese.org and dedicated phone number on our website to streamlinereporting for those who wish to report in that way. And rather than having a singleintake officer of the Canon to the Ordinary, we now have five intake officers,spread geographically around the diocese, and who are diverse in their languageskills, gender, sexuality, and are both lay and ordained. Canon Debbie Royals, theRev. Ann Johnson, Canon Martir Vasquez (who is currently on medical leave), andMr. Clyde Kunz join Canon Anita Braden in this important ministry. We arecalled to ensure our churches are safe for laypeople, for clergy, for employees, foreveryone.CLERGY COLLEGIALITY AND LIFEHealthy clergy make for healthy churches. I desire all of our clergy to beactive in their prayer, study, and fellowship with one another, that we may not besiloed each in our separate congregations. Clergy collegiality was clearlyidentified as a growth area when I arrived for the walkabouts and upon arrival asyour bishop.As one way of addressing this, we are going to embark upon a two-year trialperiod of a deanery structure, beginning November 2019. Deanery meetings will

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. Reddalltake place five times per year, and replace the current Clericus gatherings. I willbe giving a topic or Bible study for each meeting in the first year. Those topics willinclude reflections on our ordination vows; a Bible study of 1 Peter in preparationfor the Lambeth Conference, which takes 1 Peter as its theme; and theologicalconversation about our role as stewards of creation.There are six deaneries: three in the Phoenix area, one in Tucson, one in theNorth of our diocese, and one “Zoom deanery” comprised of our rural churches inevery direction, whose gatherings will be via webcams, since those congregationshave so much in common and should be able to gather together for support andsharing of ideas. I will attend one meeting per year in each deanery. At the end ofthe two year trial, we will evaluate and see whether we should continue, change, orexpand the deaneries into regional convocations that will gather and support notjust clergy but congregational ministry at many levels.Another change for clergy involves those at retirement age, who hadpreviously been expected to attend all diocesan gatherings in order to remainlicensed or active. I want to maintain those expectations for clergy who are over 72years old who are compensated for at least ¼ time work, because those clergy areteaching and preaching and in many cases leading congregations and must be up todate with goings on in the wider church.

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. ReddallBut clergy who are over 72 and who are not stipendiary, may opt out of theburden of attending diocesan events while still being active in their local parishes. Iknow for myself, when I imagine my own retirement, I want to be able to serve atthe altar and preach for as long as possible—and that is a more essential part of ouridentity and vows as clergy than attending meetings. We are blessed by theministry of so many retired clergy in our diocese.Finally, I want to highlight and explain two staffing changes reflected in the2020 Statement of Financial Mission.BORDER MISSIONERMy experience in walking with Jesus is that sometimes God puts somethingin front of you—a mission, a relationship, a burden, something. And you caneither walk away from it or you can pick it up. The faithful response is usually totake it up. In Arizona, our border is that something that God has put in front of us.We could turn away from it and ignore it but we hear the commandment of Godin Deuteronomy 10:19: “You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers inthe land of Egypt.” We hear that commandment echoed through all of scripture,and we look at the child, the mother, the person seeking safety from violence andfamine, and we see the face of Jesus.We have already taken up that ministry: Bishop Smith wrote a wonderfulbook called “Bishops on the Border” a few years ago. Over 20 congregations in

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. Reddallour diocese are doing some kind of ministry involving migration and border issues.But no one is coordinating those ministries, connecting volunteers and needs, orhelping us adapt as policies and procedures change. Cruzando Fronteras, ourflagship ministry as a diocese, needs administrative help to step forward intostructural and financial sustainability. And our diocese receives frequent requestsfrom outside Arizona from visitors who want to “help” at the border, but we haveno structure or ability to really allow them to do so.So we are not serving our neighbors and welcoming the stranger aseffectively as we might. Consequently, the 2020 Statement of Financial Missionincludes a new full-time “Missioner for Border Ministries” position that will meetthose needs. We have received a grant from Episcopal Relief and Development tofund the position beginning on November 1, 2019, pending the adoption of the2020 budget today.The Missioner will be out in your congregations on Sundays, preaching andteaching and connecting you to the wider church. They will be helping CruzandoFronteras develop structures for financial and administrative stewardship;connecting congregations to ecumenical and civic partners for ministry withmigrants; and developing a “Border pilgrimage” for people outside Arizona—andsome of you inside Arizona—to come and see our southern border and return homecarrying the stories of those who are on this journey.

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. ReddallCanon for Creation CareThe second position created for 2020, pending the passage of the budget, is aCanon for Creation Care. We love our land in Arizona—I don’t know anyone wholives in Arizona who is immune to the beautiful and biblical landscape of desert,mountain, canyon and forest. And because of our particular landscape, we aremore attuned than many to how fragile our ecosystems are: drought can imperilspecies and habitats, but a single rainstorm can bring abundant life to the desert; asinhabitants of this land, we feel the pressure of increasing fires and floods andconcern about water, energy, pollution and climate change. Both as Arizonans andas Christians, we know that we must learn to live more lightly on the land in orderto live up to our role as the stewards of creation.This position arose because a clergy person who was an environmentaladvocate in their pre-ordination life approached me with a possibility of structuringa mobile position helping congregations. Like the Missioner for Border Ministries,this person will also be out in your congregations on Sundays, ministering throughpreaching and teaching; providing resources for your congregation to live morelightly on the earth; encouraging parish action and projects; and connecting ourdiocese to organizations like Interfaith Power and Light, and the wider EpiscopalChurch’s resources for grants, theological materials, and inspiration.

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. ReddallThey will also be an important part of planning for our next DiocesanConvention. The Episcopal Church has identified three pillars of Building theBeloved Community: Care of Creation, Evangelism, Racial Reconciliation. Weare going to take each one of those as organizing topics for our next three DiocesanConventions, and do some collective work on those topics surrounding theconventions so that we can dive more deeply into how we as Christians care forour earth, proclaim the Gospel, and heal the sin of racial injustice.CONVENTIONS IN THE FUTURESo it gives me great pleasure to announce today that 60th Convention of theEpiscopal Diocese of Arizona, on the topic of Care of Creation, will be held onOctober 16-17, 2020 at the El Conquistador Hilton in Tucson, Arizona. I amaccustomed to having Convention rotate locations to make it more convenient forone group of people one year, and more convenient for a different group of peoplethe next year, so we are going to test out what it will be like to meet in Tucson nextyear.The 61st Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona will be back inPhoenix on October 15-16, 2021 focusing on Evangelism, and our keynote speakerand leader of that convention will be our Evangelist in Chief, Presiding BishopMichael Curry.

Convention Address, 2019The Right Rev. Jennifer A. ReddallOur 2022 Convention will be in a location to be determined later, and willtake up Racial Reconciliation as our focus.It’s quite a walk we are on. A walk in love, a walk in joy, a walk infriendship. You are a blessing to me, and I feel so supported by your prayers andthe warmth when we gather. I am excited about the future of this diocese and thechurch as a whole, because I catch a glimpse of the Reign of God every day.I’d like to close with one of my favorite prayers from Morning Prayer,which encapsulates much of what I believe about walking in Love with Christ:Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of thecross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clotheus in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who donot know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your name.Amen.

Clergy of the Diocese - 2019The Bishop of ArizonaThe Right Reverend Jennifer A. Reddall, D.D.Retired BishopThe Right Reverend Kirk Stevan Smith, Ph.D., D.D.Bishop of Arizona 2004 - 2019Canonically Resident PriestsThe Rev Laura Ann Adelia 2010The Rev Enrique Cadena 2008The Rev Susan Anderson-Smith 2002The Rev Gail M. Carlsen 2006The Rev Melinda Archer 2006The Rev Philip L. Carlson 2001The Rev Susan Charlee Armer 1988The Rev Charles E. Chatham 2000The Rev Debra Asis 2009The Rev Cn David Ulloa Chavez 2018The Rev Kathryn J. Baird 2009The Rev Peter G. Cheney 1993The Rev Franklyn J. Bergen 2005The Rev Sandra L. G. Chilese 2015The Rev Robert M. Berra 2012The Rev John S. Christopher 2012The Rev James H. Booker 2006The Rev Cathy A Clark 2012The Rev Anita Luise Braden 2001The Rev Canon Frank H. Clark 1997The Rev Gerardo E. Brambila 2015The Rev James B. Clark 2004The Rev W. Allen Breckenridge 1992The Rev John Caleb Collins 2020The Rev Rosa M Brown 1994The Rev Martha A. H. Conner 2009The Rev Canon Norman C. Burke 1976The Rev James W. Conrad, Jr. 1987The Rev Robert Burton 2009The Rev Allison Cornell 2016The Rev Craig R. Bustrin 2008The Rev Paul L. Crowell, D.Min. 1990

The Rev Angelito C. Cubillas (Lito) 2015The Rev Holly A. Herring 2015The Rev Sumith S. De Silva 1996Hoffman Jr, The Rev Henry Jesse 2020The Rev Mary J. Delaney 2012The Rev Canon William T. Holt III 1993The Rev Taylor P Devine 2018The Rev Carol S. Hosler 1994The Rev Canon Timothy Dombek 2007The Rev Pamela W. Hyde 2015The Rev Roger O. Douglas, D.Min. 1977The Rev Bruce A. Jackson 2012The Rev Canon Raymond P. Dugan 1960The Rev Claudia (Jan) James 2006The Rev Anne K. Ellsworth 2014The Rev Ann Ruth Johnson 2006The Rev Emilie A. Finn 2012The Rev William G. Johnson 1974The Rev Joseph M. Fitzgerald 2011The Rev Scott Jones 2008The Rev William C. Forrest 1992The Rev Kelli Danielle Joyce 2018The Rev Cheryl Lynn Fox 2009The Rev Stephen M. Kelsey 2014The Rev Benjamin N. Garren 2015The Rev Stephen J. Keplinger 2010The Rev Earl Gibson 2004The Rev Canon John E. Kitagawa 2001The Rev Devin Scott Gillespie 2021The Rev Alison Ruth Lee 2018The Rev Lisa A. Goforth 2013The Rev Dr Warren Neil Leibovitch 1992The Rev Janet R. Gooltz 2009The Rev Canon Carmen Guerrero 2005The Rev Angela Guida 2009The Rev Scott S. Hankins 2010The Rev Joseph M. Harte, Jr. 1991The Rev David T. Hedges 2016The Rev Peter A. Helman 2017The Robert J. Hendrickson III 2016The Rev Thomas E. Leonard 1995The Rev Anderia A. Lual 2008The Rev Dr. Richard D. Mallory 2015The Rev Scot Alexander McComas 2004The Very Rev Troy D. Mendez 2014The Rev Nelson Lucas Mendoza 2020The Rev Daniel J. Messier 2011The Rev Alan K. Meyer 1983

The Rev Byron K. Mills 2001The Rev Samuel M.N. Reec 2007The Rev Lucas J. Mix 2010The Rev Jeffrey B. Reed 2003The Rev Mark Moline 2008The Rev James C Rhodenhiser 1992The Rev Dominic C. Moore 2014The Rev Daniel P. Richards 2016The Rev Ellen Morell 2004The Rev David A. Richardson 2005The Rev Henry T. Morrison, Jr. 1993The Rev David Kevin Rickert 2018The Rev Canon Richard N. Morrison 1997The Rev Canon Charles K. Robertson 2004The Rev Denise Holly Muller, 2018The Rev Benjamin D Rodenbeck 2020The Rev Dorian L. Mulvey 2008The Rev N. Jean Rogers 1994The Rev Kerry C. Neuhardt 1986The Rev Elizabeth J. Roles 2016The Rev Gary G. Nicolosi 2017The Rev Heather D Rose 2020The Rev Deborah Noonan 2009The Rev Grayce O Rowe 2014The Rev Julie O’Brien 2008The Rev Canon Deborah J. Royals 1994The Rev Perry Michael Pauley 2021The Rev Charles Hunter Ruffin 2015The Rev Diane M. Pella 1991The Rev Robert W. Saik 2014The Rev Lynn J Perkins 2007The Rev Susana Santibanez 2018The Rev Roger S Perkins 2007The Rev Mark D Schultz 2017The Rev Canon David E. Pettengill 1960The Rev Roger T. Scott 1992The Rev Mary T. L. Piotrowski 2003The Rev Philip A. Shaw 2007The Rev Seth A. Polley 2006The Rev Gabriel Sinisi 2006The Rev James R. Porter 1997The Rev Anita M. Slovak 2016The Rev Ronald G. Poston 1991The Rev John R. Smith, Jr. 1987The Rev Donne E. Puckle 1990The Rev Michael A. Smith 2004The Rev Jeanne L. Rasmussen 2015The Rev Canon Colville Smythe, Jr 1972

The Rev Ben L. Somerville II 1999The Rev Monica A. Whitaker 2017The Rev Jorge S. Sotelo 2006The Rev Bruce A. White 2011The Rev Diane J. Souder 1997The Rev Wayne V. Whitney 2013The Rev Canon Gil W. Stafford 2005The Rev Julie A. Williams 2014The Rev Joseph G. Stafford 1983The Rev Susan E. Wilmot 2007The Rev Chad L. Sundin 2014The Rev Richard A. Wilson 2007The Rev Cn Jana Patrice Sundin 2021The Rev Nordon W. Winger 2011The Rev Canon Daniel F. Tantimonaco 2006The Rev Timothy J Yanni 2016The Rev Timothy True 2013The Rev Clare M. Yarborough 2010The Rev Adrian Tubbs 2020The Rev Judith E. Turberg 2011The Rev Canon Irineo M. Vasquez (Martir) 2012The Rev G. Vance Vidal 1971The Rev Erika E. von Haaren 2008The Rev Tanya Watt 2019The Rev Janice D. Watts 2011The Rev Harry L. Way 2001

Canonically Resident Deacons - 2019The Rev Patrice Al-Shatti Taylor 2019The Rev Debra Lynn Greenleaf 2015The Rev Kimball C. Arnold 2000The Rev Wendy K. Guyton 2011The Rev Rodger A. Babnew Jr. 2017The Rev Michael Halle 2009The Rev James R. Bade 2012The Rev Susan B. Harte 2000The Rev Jefferson Bailey 2006The Rev Daniel P. Herron 2012The Rev Ursula Paula (Pixie) Baker 20017The Rev Gordon C. Hill 1992The Rev Tara A. Bartholomew 2018The Rev Robin Hollis 2012The Rev Janetta Beaumont 2008The Rev Ruth I. Hooper 2011The Rev Pamela Bell 2019The Rev Frederick E. Huls II 1993The Rev Cathleen Ann Carlisle 2016The Rev Linda D. Hutson 2014The Rev Christine L. Christy 2016The Rev Maeve V. Johnson 2006The Rev Susan Cihak 2009The Rev John Kapp 2010The Rev William P. Cohee 2008The Rev Myra J. Kingsley 2009The Rev Patrice Cole 2018The Rev Patricia L. Kirk 2006The Rev Kimberly D. Crecca 2016The Rev Christopher M. Ledyard 2014The Rev Scott Deasy 2012The Rev Joan C. Goodwin Lewis 1992The Rev Michael J. Douglas 2015The Rev Thomas J. Lindell 2000The Rev Bess D. Driver 2006The Rev Debra J. Loder 2017The Rev Sally Durand 2009The Rev Nadine Martin 2006The Rev Martha Durham 2008The Rev Marlys J. McLaughlin 1997The Rev Margaret J. England 1992The Rev Nancy D. Meister 2010The Rev Susan Erickson 2020The Rev Charles E. Milhoan 2009The Rev Sarah J. Getts 2012The Rev Deirdre V.W. Moulinier 2014The Rev Grant Gilfeather 2009The Rev Emmanuel B. Oluloro (Bola) 2015

The Rev Susan D. (Susie) Parker 2017The Rev Margaret H. Perry 2008The Ven Canon Veronica M. Ritson 1993The Rev Gay Romack 2006The Rev Frances S. Ryan 2006The Rev Rosa L. (Leah) Sandwell-Weiss 2011The Rev Gary Alan Sawyer 2018The Rev Martha L. Seaman 2004The Rev Jon Skaug 2010The Rev Craig Loren Smith 2021The Rev Charles P. Sowinski 2014The Rev Sally H. Stevens-Taylor 2010The Rev Anne L. Strong 2010The Rev Ralph D. Taylor 2008The Rev Lee S. (Skip) Vellom 2005The Rev Stanley W. Wagaman 2013The Rev Mary B. (Brigid) Waszczak 2012The Rev Rebecca A. Williamson 2011The Rev Vivian J. Winter Chaser 2012

ANNUAL REPORTS TO CONVENTION 2019Anti-Racism CommitteeArchivist/HistoriographerChapel Rock Camp & Conference CenterChaplain to Ret

The Rev. Thomas W. Davidson The Rev Dorothy Saucedo The Rev Vergie R. Ferguson The Rev Dr Joseph W. King . sitting in a pew listening to the Gospel. Because the Gospel is radical and challenging. But we should be safe. We should be able to trust those around us to . Here are a summary of the events and activities we developed;