Job at Episcopal Church in Minnesota

The Canon for Discipleship is responsible for helping faith communities in the Episcopal Church of Minnesota center the core work of making disciples of Jesus.

Job Description

In a season of profound challenge and transformation, our primary call is to renew our focus on the basic practices of the way of Jesus. The Canon for Discipleship is responsible for helping faith communities center this core work of making disciples of Jesus Christ. The Canon will do so by cultivating and stewarding a comprehensive formation approach for lay and ordained individuals of all ages. This will include developing a diocesan system of discipleship for adults,as well as overseeing several positions that work directly with specific demographic cohorts. This position will help us dream broadly about pathways to walk the way of Jesus today, discovering, developing, and implementing a variety of dynamic approaches across the diocese. This role is open to lay or ordained applicants.

Interested candidates should send cover letters and resumes to kelsey.s@episcopalmn.org.

Episcopal Church in Minnesota

The Episcopal Church in Minnesota is one church in 95 places, bound together by our commitment to follow the Way of Jesus, joining God in God’s project to heal the whole world with love. The diocese upholds four priorities for shared life and work: discipleship, faithful innovation, justice, and congregational vitality.

In a late 2024 diocesan staffing assessment, the following quotes were shared, whether from staff, governing bodies, or other supportive stakeholders:
The four priorities are in the fabric of what I am doing.
How fortunate I feel every day to be a part of this team and do this work; it's good, and hard, and we have a great bishop. I’m really proud of what I do.
I love Loya’s invitation to get back to the basics around discipleship.
Our bishop is fabulous. He’s the real deal in being grounded in the four priorities, equipping others, and seeing the gifts in others. He makes me want to continue to work in the church.
I am so consistently impressed with the intelligence and imagination in this diocese at every level. We have a spectacularly smart, faithful, earnest, imaginative group of people from top to bottom.
People are open. We're not entrenched in what was.
The difference between urban and rural is the size and volume of people, but it is also cultural.

ECMN stats
Bishop Craig Loya was installed in 2020.
The membership of the diocese is around 15,357, and on an average week, 3,432 people attend worship.
The diocese has a 2025 budget of $3,242,477.