Fundraising is Pastoral Care

3630 Deanery Drive,Alexandria VA 22304

01 February, 2023

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We welcome The Reverend Sandy Webb to VTS for an evening of discussion at Saint Martin's Deanery. The Reverend Sandy Webb (VTS ’10) had never asked anyone for money before his parish began a capital campaign that raised $11.5 million. Consider the role that fundraising might play in your own pastoral vocation as the Rector of Church of the Holy Communion in Memphis reflects on how he prepared himself for his first fundraising effort, both practically and theologically, and how he feels more deeply connected to his parishioners now than he did before the capital campaign. About the Lecturer The Reverend Sandy Webb has served Church of the Holy Communion since August 2013. Under his leadership, Holy Communion has developed and implemented new models for communicating its message, welcoming newcomers, forming young people, serving the wider community, and having challenging conversations in a spirit of truth and love. The parish has commissioned several new works of visual and musical art during Sandy’s tenure. It also completed a capital campaign that raised more than $11.5 million and provided for the complete overhaul of the parish’s 50,000-square foot facility. As rector, Sandy is a permanent trustee of St. Mary’s Episcopal School, and he has made a priority of strengthening the relationship between the church and the school. Before coming to Holy Communion, Sandy was associate rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke, Virginia. He was the founding chaplain to the Roanoke City Fire-EMS Department and a community representative on the institutional review board at Carilion Clinic and Roanoke Memorial Hospital. A “cradle Episcopalian” from Massachusetts, Sandy always wanted to serve the Episcopal Church as a career. Before seminary, he worked in the executive office of the General Convention at denominational headquarters in New York where he advised several policy-making committees, helped plan a reorganization of the Presiding Bishop’s staff, and coordinated worship services for as many as 8,000 people. In various capacities, his work with General Convention worship spanned a total of fifteen years.