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Announcement: A new Director of Community Ministry March 1, 2010 I’m delighted to tell members and friends of St. Bartholomew’s that we have found a new Director of our Community Ministry—the soup kitchen, food pantry and homeless shelter that have been a rock of our mission since 1980. He is the Rev. Edward M. Sunderland, and he is currently Clinical Coordinator of Common Ground Community, a cutting edge program in housing the homeless in New York. He begins at St. Bart’s March 15, successor to the Rev. Deacon J.D. Clarke, who held the position until his retirement last summer. As both a priest and licensed clinical social worker, Edward brings an amazing combination of skills and deep, relevant experience to our staff. In fact, it would be hard to imagine a better match to our needs and dreams. Edward’s social work background before Common Ground includes work as a hospital social worker at Montefiore and New York Presbyterian hospitals, program officer for the Open Society Institute, and case management positions in service programs. He also has crucial experience in supervising volunteers and staff and in grant-writing and fundraising. As a priest, he brings experience as education, preacher, liturgist and counselor. His positions range from college chaplain at Arizona Statue University to rector of congregations in Los Angeles and Phoenix. It was when he ministered at Iglesia Episcopal de San Pablo in Phoenix that he used his fluency in Spanish to lead both the English and Spanish speaking congregations, and that he realized the need for professional social work skills. Edward is a graduate of Grove City College, Penn.; Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and Arizona State University School of College of Public Programs. His ministry at St. Bart’s will be heavily weighted to the demands of Community Ministry, but he will give us welcome help in the Sunday and weekday liturgy and, as time allows, with pastoral and teaching work on the clergy staff. Bill Tully