Have a question but aren't sure who to ask? The list below may help you determine who on the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee might know the answer:

Contact for:

• Pastoral care of clergy and families
• Faith crises
• Consecration of a church, blessing of altar, chalice, paten, church bells
• Services of confirmation and reception
• Celebrations of new ministry
• Lay ministry and social outreach opportunities

Laura Nichols
Bishop's executive assistant
lnichols@etdiocese.net; (865)966-2110

Contact for:

• An appointment with the bishop
• The bishop's visitation schedule
• Questions relating to confirmation
• The diocesan prayer calendar
• Clergy days
• Diocesan convention
• Godly Judgments
• Licensing Eucharistic Ministers, Eucharistic Visitors and Worship Leaders
• Any other diocesan questions

Contact for:

• Parish search process (Diocesan deployment Web pages)
• Diocesan Convention planning
• Updating clergy and lay professional resumes and CDO profiles
• Diocesan constitution and canons
• Diocesan Response Team
• "Fresh Start" program for clergy in transition
• "Safeguarding God's Children"

Contact for:

• Opportunity Fund grant application
• Resource to parish treasurers
• Parish voluntary commitments
• Setting clergy compensation
• Diocesan budget
• Long-term disability and worker compensation for church workers
• Use of the Diocesan House
• Parish property and liability insurance

Chapter and Verse Episcopal Bookshop
Toll-free (866)281-4599 or (865)966-2912. The bookshop reopened Jan. 7, 2008, for an inventory liquidation sale as part of its reorganization.
Contact Mary Berl for information.

Contact for:

• Group medical, dental, life and supplemental Medicare insurance for clergy and lay church workers
• Grace Point reservations
• Diocesan Health Insurance Committee
• Information about the Episcopal Mental Health Directory
• To sign out audiovisual equipment or the "FISH" DVD
• Diocesan convention registration or packets

Contact for:

• Licensed ministries
• Shared ministry exploration and implementation (Diocesan Shared Ministry Web pages)
• Ministry of the baptized presentations and workshops
• Small church gatherings
• Partners in Ministry conferences

Contact for:

• Information about diocesan, provincial, national youth events
• To register for youth events
• Youth Action Council
• Resources for parish youth ministry
• Diocesan youth Web pages

Contact for:

• Change in subscription to East Tennessee Episcopalian
• For information about the Legacy Society
• Change in diocesan directory, Web clergy and parish listings, Legacy Society database or Grace Point campers or "Friends of Grace Point" databases
• To register for some diocesan events
• For information about planned diocesan events

Contact for:

• East Tennessee Episcopalian editorial guidelines (policy) and deadlines to submit material
• To advise on publicity for parish events
• Opportunities to write for the East Tennessee Episcopalian
• For information about the diocesan Web site and/or e-mail accounts
• To set up a parish or diocesan organization Web site on the diocesan server
• To advise on media relations

Contact for:

• Grace Point facilities
• To donate funds or furnishings to Grace Point
• Directions to visit Grace Point