Candidate Conversations Provide Help in Discerning the Next Bishop of our Diocese

Whether participating live or watching the recorded videos on their own time, hundreds of people from throughout the diocese learned more about the five candidates for the XV Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina this week through the three-day virtual event known as Candidate Conversations (In the photo, Jeanette Spencer, a member of Calvary, Charleston, and the Very Rev. Dr. Adam Shoemaker, rector of St. Stephen's, Charleston, both members of the Bishop Search Transition Committee, moderated the Wednesday morning session with the five candidates.).

From Monday through Wednesday, people of the diocese watched panel discussions with the candidates where they answered 4-5 questions in a live video conference each day, and then they joined in the evening for breakout sessions that provided an opportunity to meet and listen to each candidate one at a time. Throughout the event, churches from around the diocese joined together to offer morning prayer, noonday prayer and evening prayer for each daily session. Youth of the diocese closed the three-day event with Compline on Wednesday evening.

Candidate Conversations hopefully served as a wonderful opportunity for the candidates to learn more about the diocese and for people to learn more about them. This will be particularly helpful for those who will serve as lay and clergy delegates at the Electing Convention on May 1, 2021.

​For those who were unable to watch the events live, the panel discussions from each of the three days were recorded and can be watched on the Diocesan YouTube account at this playlist. Learn more about the candidates, including interviews, resumes, application essay answers and more, on the Bishop Search website at this link.

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