Build the Beloved Community

Make Your Pledge to the Building Campaign

Ministry Initiatives & Campaign Update

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A VISION OF THE BELOVED COMMUNITYWith the renewal of our second-campus, Good Shepherd on the Hill (GSH), underway and with our Windsor-Exposition campus readying for construction, during the spring of 2014 the Vestry of The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd planned a series of brainstorming sessions to engage members of the Good Shepherd community in dreaming about the ministries our building program will make possible. The Vestry strategized these sessions as charrettes, soliciting ideas for each of our four new and renewed facilities: our restored and expanded Worship Building; the redeveloped GSH campus; the new Education Center; and the new Parish Life Center.

350 adults and youth participated in the charrettes, offering more than 2,000 ideas. This feedback included constructive evaluation of our current programming, as well as ideas for new ministry opportunities. Questions challenged participants to consider not only how these fresh ideas could enhance the life of those already within our GS community, but how Good Shepherd could benefit life in our neighborhoods and our city.

A working group comprising fourteen congregational leaders received this raw data. Working in subcommittees organized by facility, each subgroup reviewed and interpreted the feedback concerning their portion of the building program, identifying not only the ideas bearing the most support, but working to identify the core energy and momentum behind that feedback. Based on this study, each subgroup then developed a minimum of three Ministry Initiatives to present to the plenary working group, which the whole then prioritized and presented to the Vestry. The Vestry then selected the Ministry Initiatives you will find in this booklet.

CONTENTSMap of Completed Windsor-Exposition Campus ...............................................................................2Timeline .............................................................................................................................................3Parish Life Center & Feeding the Flock ........................................................................................4 – 5Education Center & Deepening Our Spiritual Life ......................................................................6 – 7Worship Building & Enhancing Engagement ...............................................................................8 – 9Good Shepherd on the Hill, Collaborating With New Neighbors & Sharing Faith ..................10 – 12More Ministry Initiatives ..................................................................................................................13Capital Campaign Update ........................................................................................................14 – 15Leadership ........................................................................................................................................16

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MAP OF COMPLETED WINDSOR-EXPOSITION CAMPUS Development of the Windsor-Exposition Master Plan began in 2003. In 2005, a first-phase capital campaign provided for the completion of the Administration Building and the incorporation of Moffett Street into the Good Shepherd campus. Good Shepherd’s campaign to Build the Beloved Community began in the fall of 2012, with a goal to complete the Plan and expand the parish’s ministry to its underserved neighbors across the city of Austin.

This booklet includes information about every element of the current building program, in addition to descriptions of the Ministry Initiatives attendant to each one. Please see below a map of Good Shepherd’s improved Windsor-Exposition campus, scheduled for completion in 2016.

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AUGUST 2015GSES returns to Windsor-Exposition campus.

FALL 2015 - SPRING 2016Worship Building renewal and expansion begins at Windsor-Exposition campus, and Sunday services move to PLC

SPRING 2016GSH ministry development continues

FALL 2016Sunday services return to Worship Building upon completion of Windsor-Exposition campus

FALL 2016Second-campus ministries launch at GSH

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WOODLANDGSES

WINDSOR GSES

JULY 2013Transfer of Woodland Avenue property from Diocese to Good Shepherd (GS)

[Completed]

AUGUST 2014Good Shepherd Episcopal School (GSES)moves to GSH for the 2014–2015academic year

[Completed]

SUMMER 2014 - SPRING 2015Education Center and Parish Life Center (PLC) construction at Windsor-Exposition campus

[In Progress...]

SPRING 2014Transformation of Woodland Avenue property into Good Shepherd on the Hill (GSH)

[Completed]

TIMELINEPlease see below a timeline of the current campaign to Build the Beloved Community, since the acquisition of our second-campus, Good Shepherd on the Hill, in the summer of 2013:

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PARISH LIFE CENTER

FACILITY DESCRIPTIONA banquet room (more than twice the size of our current Parish Hall) with many windows, the attractive Parish Life Center (PLC) will center our Windsor-Exposition campus and seat 350 at round tables. The PLC will boast a large commercial kitchen with easy access to the main parking lot. The PLC will share a common, atrium entry with the Education Center.

CONSTRUCTION TIMELINEConstruction of the Parish Life Center will complete this July. When construction begins on the Worship Building this September, all worship (Sunday services, weddings, and funerals) will relocate to the PLC. In order to nurture an appropriate solemnity during this interim period, the PLC will only be used for worship until the renewal of the Worship Building has completed during the first half of next year. Therefore, full use of the PLC will not be available until the fall of 2016.

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FEEDING THE FLOCKOVERVIEWThe Good Shepherd community enjoys one another’s company, and the visioning charrettes affirmed the parish’s desire to enhance not only fellowship opportunities within the congregation, but with its most immediate West Austin neighbors. The charrettes proposed an enhanced kitchen ministry – leveraging the Parish Life Center’s new commercial-grade facilities – as a strategy for expanding the parish’s hospitality, evangelism, and outreach programming.

STRATEGYAdmiring known models at Saint John the Divine (Houston) and Saint David’s (Austin), in 2015 the Vestry will partner with congregational leaders (including those supporting Sunday Breakfast Teams, the Parish Care Committee, and Saint Brigid’s Guild, among others) to explore possibilities, including the hire of a full-time Food Minister in the first quarter of 2016, and an expanded feeding ministry to launch in the fall of 2016.

IMPACTThe Vestry identifies enhancement of Good Shepherd’s kitchen ministry as a cornerstone for other Ministry Initiatives, from the support of multi-generational programming, to the establishment of a restaurant-style lunch counter or coffee shop. As envisioned by the charrettes, the Food Minister would be a ministry partner who would empower, enhance, and expand existing lay-led kitchen ministries and not replace them.

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EDUCATION CENTER

FACILITY DESCRIPTIONThe three-story Education Center (EC) includes: a subterranean parking garage, providing 40 additional parking spaces; a first-floor suite of ten classrooms and five offices, hosting Good Shepherd Episcopal School (GSES), our early-childhood program serving children from two-years through Kindergarten; and a second-floor Formation Center for the parish, school, and neighborhood, including art, media, and children’s music rooms, as well as dedicated spaces for children, youth, and adults. The EC will share a common, atrium entry with the Parish Life Center (to the west). The parking garage entrance and exit will open to Exposition Boulevard (to the east), and the facility will be flanked by a large playground along Gilbert Street (to the south) and a smaller play area near the Nursery (to the north).

CONSTRUCTION TIMELINEConstruction of the Education Center will complete this July (at the same time as the Parish Life Center), and Good Shepherd Episcopal School will then immediately return to this campus. God willing, full use of the EC will become available this fall.

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DEEPENING OUR SPIRITUAL LIFEOVERVIEWThrough a variety of observations and ideas, the visioning charrettes gave voice to the Good Shepherd community’s desire to explore and enhance its spiritual identity, both individually and corporately. Acknowledging the frantic and noisy character of contemporary life in Austin, the charrettes affirmed the parish’s contemplative prayer practices, and hoped for increased opportunities for stillness and quiet.

STRATEGYThis spring, the Vestry will partner with congregational leaders to identify one of the Formation Center’s spaces as a room for reading, reflection, and prayer. Late next summer, this room will be comfortably and beautifully appointed to foster an environment appropriate for spiritual direction, intercessory prayer, and individual or small-group study. The room will offer print resources, including books and periodicals, recent sermons, and parish communications.

IMPACTMost immediately and during the period of the Worship Building’s construction, the parish’s contemplative prayer services will move from the chancel to this new space, providing an opportunity for the congregation’s most experienced contemplatives to refine the environment. The room may also prove suitable for the Wednesday Morning Women’s Prayer Group and TAEHS (The Art of Engaging Holy Scripture), and may become a space where families meet with clergy to prepare for a funeral; where couples meet for pre-marriage counsel; and where pastoral liturgies might be offered.

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WORSHIP BUILDING

FACILITY DESCRIPTIONThe Good Shepherd Worship Building, originally completed in 1951, will be expanded for the first time in its history. This expansion will feature a new narthex (foyer), including restrooms; enhanced hospitality accommodations; a larger space for increased festival seating; and a twenty-five bell carillon set in a new bell tower. The existing narthex will be incorporated into the nave, increasing room for regular seating. Restoration of the Worship Building will include upgraded acoustics; overhauled heating and cooling systems; improved accessibility for the mobility-impaired; and necessary repairs to the building’s foundation, floor, walls, windows, and roof. The parish’s organ will be significantly improved, either by replacement or enhancement of the current instrument.

CONSTRUCTION TIMELINEPlans call for the expansion and restoration of the Worship Building to begin early this fall. Following the completion of the Education Center and Parish Life Center in late summer, there will be a period of transition as the construction site moves northward across the Windsor-Exposition campus. In September of this year, Sunday worship, funerals, and weddings will relocate to the Parish Life Center (PLC) for the duration of the 2015-2016 Program Year. God willing, renewal of the Worship Building will complete by summer of 2016, and worship will return to the Good Shepherd sanctuary and nave no later than fall of 2016.

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ENHANCING ENGAGEMENTOVERVIEWThe visioning charrettes clearly announced Good Shepherd’s passion for worship and its love of the Windsor-Exposition Worship Building. In a great variety of ideas, members of the community expressed an appreciation for worship that is vital: well-attended, with familiar hymnody; beautiful: elegant, with authentic warmth; Episcopal: ordered, with festal pageantry; and inspiring: affecting, with meaningful preaching. While individuals’ particular preferences inclined feedback focused on either contemporary or traditional musical styles (and affirmation of either Communion Café or the parish’s traditional worship), the charrettes expressed a consensus desire for greater engagement in music.

Enhancing music engagement at Good Shepherd implicates the worship environment, including the “feel” and resonant quality of the building; musical leadership, including the organ, choir, and repertoire; and musical formation and instruction, including the worship bulletin and the worship experience, itself. Members of the liturgical staff collaborated with members of the Ministry Initiative Working Group and recognized singing as not only a sacred devotion, but an act requiring a high level of trust within a worshipping community.

STRATEGYMost immediately, final decisions concerning restoration of the Worship Building will seek to improve the room’s surfaces and systems to create the most engaging worship environment possible. In preparation for the relocation of the congregation’s worship into the PLC this fall, the Rector will partner with members of the music staff, choristers, and congregational leaders, to strategize how this experience can be leveraged to encourage greater congregational singing. Strategies will consider the interim space’s layout, the choir’s location, in-worship choral instruction, accompanying instrumentation, and expansion of the musical repertoire.

IMPACTIn addition to efforts within the context of worship, programmatic leaders will pursue opportunities to sing during activities of the parish (eg, singing a doxology, rather than praying a spoken blessing before a meal). In a succeeding Program Year, liturgical leaders will coordinate a series of small-group events in parishioner homes. At these events, friends will share cocktails and hors d’oeuvres around a piano or other instrument. A music minister, chorister, or member of the clergy will offer a brief and basic overview of a particular hymn, after which the small group will learn how to sing the song together. This hymn will then be sung in church the following Sunday, and the friends will be invited to sit next to one another during church that day to give singing a try. Households could include children and will be varied by time of day and menu.

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CONSTRUCTION TIMELINEIn the spring of 2014, Good Shepherd invested more than $1.5m in the renewal of the Good Shepherd on the Hill campus. Completed last August, this first phase of construction included a complete remodel of the worship space, sacristy, and Parish Hall, bringing the structure down to its studs; overhauling its HVAC systems; and updating its fixtures, floors, restrooms, and interior finishes. The site renewal also included an overhaul of the property’s landscaping, parking, and driveways, as well as the addition of fencing and attractive playground and garden spaces. The parish invested in durable drainage systems at the site, and – to the enjoyment of the neighborhood – added sidewalks around the entire perimeter of the campus. Last fall, Good Shepherd acquired the next adjacent property, 1704 Woodland Avenue (1704), a three-bedroom, two-bath home.

Last summer, Good Shepherd Episcopal School (GSES) moved its program to the GSH campus for this academic year, using 1704 as a meeting and storage space. This summer, GSES will move into the ground floor of the newly-completed Windsor-Exposition Education Center for the start of the 2015-2016 school year. The second phase of the GSH renewal – including the addition of the commercial kitchen and the transition of the campus from school-exclusive use to the purposes of our second-campus worshipping community and outreach ministries – will begin this fall.

FACILITY DESCRIPTIONGood Shepherd on the Hill (GSH) came into the care of the Good Shepherd community in 2013. Received from the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, facilities at 1700 Woodland Avenue include a worship space and an adjoining sacristy; a Parish Hall with attached formation complex comprising three offices, a nursery, a program space, and three restrooms; and a triple-wide, prefabricated building offering two, very large program spaces, two smaller program spaces, and two restrooms. The three-acre campus overlooks downtown Austin, just east of IH-35 and just south of the river, and includes the three-bedroom, two-bath parsonage at 1702 Woodland.

GOOD SHEPHERD ON THE HILL

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STRATEGYAffirming the recommendations of the 2012 Outreach Task Force, the visioning charrettes named kindergarten-readiness programming as a primary interest of the congregation and as a potential instrument for developing meaningful relationships with new neighbors, whereby other needs – in so-called “wrap-around” services – could be met. Though ideas for these services were many – from training in life-skills, parenting, and cooking, to health care and legal counsel – all the ideas witnessed a desire to better deploy the professional, spiritual, and personal gifts of the Good Shepherd community in relationships with the underserved, graduating the parish’s outreach from one-time, transaction-based programs to ongoing, transformational ministries.

IMPACTSeeking authenticity in efforts at Good Shepherd on the Hill, the visioning charrettes clearly named the necessity of learning the unmet needs of Woodland Avenue neighbors, rather than making assumptions and delivering redundant services. Moreover, the charrettes identified the importance of a reciprocal program engaging the extant Good Shepherd community in an inventory of its own passions and graces. Toward these ends, Good Shepherd will hire a contracted consultant during the spring of 2015, to lead the needs assessment and strategic planning for Good Shepherd on the Hill’s outreach ministries. Partnering with parish leadership and leaders in the Good Shepherd Episcopal School community, this consultant will develop models for sustainability, detailing chronologies and desired impacts, and will report back to the congregation at the Annual Parish Meeting in 2016. Also during 2015, program staff will partner with congregational leadership to discern the gifts of the Good Shepherd community.

COLLABORATING WITH NEW NEIGHBORS

OVERVIEWGood Shepherd and its parishioners have long offered philanthropic leadership to the city of Austin. However, the congregation has not sustained its own long-term, visible outreach programming that would allow its membership to serve as a collective under the banner of The Episcopal Church and in the name of Jesus Christ. While valuing continued relationships with difference-making institutions in the community, the visioning charrettes named the parish’s desire to partner its members’ resources in a congregational endeavor serving its Austin neighbors in need. Further, the charrettes clearly voiced a desire for meaningful and authentic collaboration with those the parish will serve, seeking transformation within the parish, as well as in the city.

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SHARING FAITHOVERVIEWThe visioning charrettes expressed excitement and readiness for the development of the second-campus’ worshipping congregation, which feedback identified as an essential element of the broader community-building endeavors at Good Shepherd on the Hill. With a commitment to authenticity in common with the outreach ministries, the charrettes hoped the GSH faith community would partner the parochial and Episcopal identity of the Good Shepherd parish family with the diverse identity of Southeast Austin, forming a vital congregation both familiar and new. Also in common with the attendant outreach efforts, the visioning charrettes looked forward to the transformational power of the extant Good Shepherd community sharing the ministry of Jesus Christ with new neighbors, not only in the ways in which Good Shepherd might enhance life at Woodland Avenue, but the ways in which new neighbors will enhance the congregation’s shared worship and ministry at Windsor-Exposition.

STRATEGYAs the charrettes gave voice to many ideas for the development of outreach ministries at Good Shepherd on the Hill, the feedback imagined a broad range of neighborhood programming in support of the faith-based initiative, including seasonal celebrations: bluebonnet pictures in the spring, Fourth of July fireworks in the summer, and backpack blessings in the fall; ongoing, campus-based ministries: a dog park, community gardens, and a farmer’s market; as well as occasional and festival programming: Saint Francis Day pet blessings, Vacation Bible Schools, Easter Egg hunts, and Advent and Lenten series. Such programming would nurture authentic home-making for Good Shepherd in its new neighborhood, meeting GSH neighbors where they are and with a warm and welcoming spirit of evangelism.

IMPACTThe charrettes prioritized establishing a critical mass of missioning households of Good Shepherd who would partner with the Rector, the GSH Vicar, and GSH neighbors, to form a foundation for the second-campus congregation’s early and long-term success. During 2015, the Vicar will work in partnership with the Rector and Vestry to identify, invite, and invest these missioners, working toward the formal commissioning of foundational households at the Annual Parish Meeting in 2016. Collaborating with congregational leaders within Good Shepherd and other second-campus communities of The Episcopal Church, the Rector and Vicar will pursue additional funding opportunities in The Episcopal Diocese of Texas and in the wider Episcopal Church.

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MORE MINISTRY INITIATIVES

GIVING RESTIn addition to kindergarten-readiness, the 2012 Outreach Task Force identified care for families suffering with Alzheimer’s and dementia as an unmet need that the Good Shepherd community could address. The visioning charrettes affirmed this idea and imagined the PLC hosting a range of programming for seniors, including those suffering with these diseases. Offering primary caregivers a rest, a program of lunch and simple activities for these neighbors could invite the gifts of hospitality and kindness the charrettes identified within the GS congregation. This Ministry Initiative cannot be offered until the fall of 2016 (at the earliest), however, studies for its feasibility and development will begin this year.

WORSHIPPING TOGETHEROf all the brainstorming during the visioning charrettes, the suggestion of keeping year-round the so-called “Summer Schedule” – permanently combining the 9:00a and 11:00a worship into a single service at 10:00a – received more mention and more support than any other idea. The loud and clear interest in this possibility aligns with the ministry opportunities and facility limitations of this fall’s relocation of Sunday worship to the Parish Life Center (PLC). Plans currently expect worship in the PLC to continue at the Summer Schedule of 7:30a, 10:00a, and 6:00p. Additionally, Communion Café would move to 10:00a (in the existing Parish Hall), in order that its congregation could better benefit from the programming attendant to the larger worship service also at that hour. In these plans, Christian formation for all ages would begin at 9:00a, and brunch would be served at 11:15a.

GROWING COMMUNITYThe visioning charrettes expressed interest in a weeknight suite of programming that could draw together the whole congregation. Benefitting from enhanced feeding ministries in the PLC’s kitchen and taking advantage of the PLC’s larger fellowship space, this once-monthly event would start with a multi-generation supper and perhaps a short service of Evening Prayer. Following the large, common meal, participants would put the new Education Center through its paces, breaking out into age-based and interest-based small-groups meeting around the campus, for everyone from young children to the parish’s most senior members. Because of the move of worship into the PLC for the 2015-2016 Program Year, this Ministry Initiative will not be possible to pursue until 2016, at the earliest. However, the Working Group and Vestry both named its further consideration as a priority.

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Good Shepherd’s campaign to Build the Beloved Community (BBC) began in the fall of 2012 with a vision to equip us for our next five generations of mission and ministry in the name of Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God and the generosity of the Good Shepherd community – parish and school – we have received 375 commitments totaling nearly $15.5m. Congregational leadership has faithfully stewarded these resources, and we are now within reach of achieving our highest goals. Even so, urgency has now increased for us to complete this campaign by Easter Day: April 5, 2015.

The contracting for our building program coincided with the warming of the Austin economy following the 2008 recession, and initial construction and soft-cost estimates proved too optimistic. Actual costs for the Education Center and Parish Life Center have exceeded these early budgets, and city requirements at Good Shepherd on the Hill significantly increased our second-campus’ expenses, reducing its programs’ operating corpus. Despite these challenges, construction to-date has been stewarded well and kept as near plan as possible.

Most significantly, in the years since the development of the original Master Plan and the launch of this campaign, the known needs of our Worship Building have significantly increased. Further investigation of the structure identified damage to the foundation, and the process of exploring the implications of this damage has proven both time-consuming and expensive. As a consequence, we expect the Worship Building’s repair will cost as much as double our original estimates, and work continues for strategizing the most cost-effective and enduring solution.

In light of these developments, the BBC Executive Team and Vestry have increased the campaign’s goal to $20m, and this spring we plan to launch our broadest invitation to support this holy endeavor. Reaching this goal will require everyone who loves Good Shepherd to give their very best gift, calling our community to share in sacrifice for a good greater than ourselves. For some, this best-gift will mean increasing their commitment, while, for others, this will mean stepping forward for the first time. Recognizing how far we have come and looking forward to the ministries this campaign will make possible, we trust our GS community and believe God will empower us to complete this work.

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One Chevron = 10 Gifts

255 Gifts under $25K

(Totaling $1,502,811)

40 Gifts $100K–$1M

(Totaling $6,956,680)

46 Gifts$25K–$50K

(Totaling $1,262,030)

2 Giftsgreater than $1M

(Totaling $4,010,475)

32 Gifts $50K–$100K

(Totaling $1,671,671)

Giftsnot yet pledged

$15.4M OF $20M

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BBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEECarol & Milo BurdetteMac & William CromwellDon Hammond

Kristen & Ben HansonPam & Boots Willeford

VESTRYCLASS OF 2015 (outgoing class)Jeff BomerDon Hammond (outgoing Senior Warden)Jeff MeadorWhit Swift (outgoing Junior Warden)Pam Willeford

CLASS OF 2016Kelly CunninghamCharlynn Doering (incoming Junior Warden)Mary Ann FrishmanPete RoossienRick Smith

CLASS OF 2017Milo Burdette (incoming Senior Warden)Jordan CroninHum MandellNancy McAllisterVickie Price

CLASS OF 2018 (incoming class)Gene BurrusRebecca DavisLee JonesTrey LaMairBecky Svahn

WORSHIPConnie HudsonJohn McFarlandJeff Whitehurst

GOOD SHEPHERD ON THE HILLAnn BurkeScott FergusonMary Ann Frishman

EDUCATION CENTERJordan CroninTrey LaMairVickie Price

PARISH LIFE CENTERRuthie BurrusKelly CunninghamNancy McAllisterWhit Swift

VESTRY LIAISONSJeff BomerMilo Burdette

MINISTRY INITIATIVE TASK FORCE

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