The Rev. David Anglada

Program Director For Multicultural Leadership-churchwide

Pastor The Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, Hempstead, New York

Hospice Care Chaplain, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Director for Evangelical Mission/Assistant to The Bishop, Florida Bahamas Synod-ELCA

Assistant To The Bishop for Outreach, MNYS-ELCA

Director, Touro College-Sunset Park Center, Brooklyn, New York

The Task Force on Economic Life, churchwide

Candidacy Committee, MNYS

The Latino/Hispanic Leadership, churchwide

Mission Developers Behavior Assessment Interviewer, churchwide

Member of The Center for Evangelical Mission, MNYS

Pastoral Care: In my role as a Pastor and a hospice spiritual care chaplain I have provided a ministry of presence for my congregants and their family members. Likewise, a ministry of accompaniment with my parishioners by walking alongside congregants during life’s difficult transitions.

Administration: My experiences as an administrator stretches back before my ordination as a Pastor of Word and Sacrament. I am familiar with budgeting concepts, resolving conflicts and team building, as well as program monitoring and assessment. 

Bridge Builder: Serving as a Parish Pastor, Assistant to the Bishop in two Synods and Church Executive, I have worked alongside diverse groups to engage in honest and respectful conversations on race matters and cultural diversity.

Missional:  In my role as Parish Pastor, I have learned from my mentors, and congregational leaders to embrace a Missionary Model of Ministry, where we are engaged in evangelical outreach, discipleship, parish ministry teams, and tra {Response truncated due to character limits.}

Our Synod is facing several challenges. One of them is that within the next six-years we will witness the slow decline of our membership in our congregations. In 1988, when our denomination was formed The Metropolitan New York Synod had 235 congregations today we have 190 congregations. Over and above that, 1/3 have no “Called Pastor and, 1/3 are not thriving. Many of our congregations in our synod are in a “Protective Maintenance,” stage. They are asking themselves: how do we recapture what we had, how do we maintain our numbers, how do we beef-up our programs, what happened to us, who’s responsible for our decline and can this be saved? The above leads to closure. If we want to address our reality it is paramount that we engage in respectful conversations of the heart.

Business, as usual, is no longer working. If I am called to serve our synod as Bishop, I will encourage our membership to pray for renewal in our synod, churches and to be guided by the Holy Spirit during this process of transformation. {Response truncated due to character limits.}

 

 

Collaborative situational leadership. 

Management by objectives with constant open communications.

Listening with discernment before taking an action and pivoting successfully from mistakes.

The empowerment of leadership teams and leaning from each other.  

I tend to be energetic, decisive and direct.