Your Role

Here are the basics:

• Attend deanery meetings. In the Alameda Deanery, these are held on the second Thursday in March, June, September and November with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting at 7p.m. *Due to Covid-19 we will be holding Zoom Meetings Online until further notice.

• Distribute information from the deanery meetings to your vestry and congregation. In the Alameda Deanery, we usually end meetings by developing a list of about five talking points. You may want to take a photo of the list before you leave the meeting to help you when you talk to other people or to draft a short article for your parish newsletter or website.

• Attend the annual convention at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. It usually begins Friday afternoon and continues through late afternoon Saturday on the fourth weekend in October. This is where representatives of the churches throughout the diocese consider issues such as the diocesan budget, changes to church canons (laws) and new proposals, as well as electing members to some Diocesan committees and, in some years, representatives to the national convention.

Rules

  1. Be Respectful to All

  2. Share the Space

  3. Speak Your Truth

  4. Be Fully Present

  5. Help others

Norms

  1. One speaker at a time

  2. Roberts Rules of Order Apply