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2017 Parish Profile

St. Luke’s, Los Gatos

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St. Luke’s Parish Profile

Welcome

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is a place of beautiful juxtapositions.

On two Sundays each Lent, you will see parishioners silencing their sleek new iPhones so an errant ring won’t disturb the chanting of the Great Litany of 1662.

On Black Friday, if you manage to edge your way past the prize-laden deal hunters in the bustling shopping district of Los Gatos, you will find a quiet courtyard where a fountain burbles sleepily as the breeze drifts through the wisteria.

St. Luke’s is a place where the marginalized members of our community offer their riches at our Pantry Art Show; a place where an aging church population wildly applauds the three small children who attend Sunday School when they display their homemade Advent wreaths; and a place that seems to run on duct tape and prayers despite its location in the middle of the wealthiest region of the country.

We are an average-sized congregation with a huge heart for inclusivity and welcoming others.

We are equally comfortable with Facebook and with thuribles.

We have a tradition of sermons that mix the latest political theory with explanations of the Greek words for “repentance.”

We are looking for someone with their own beautiful juxtapositions, someone rooted in the past but looking toward the future, someone who can lead a lovingly feisty community to grow in a way that feels organic even when it doesn’t feel comfortable.

We are looking for someone who wants to preserve and enrich our strong high church liturgical tradition.

We are looking for someone who is a collaborative leader who can harness the energy of many passionate subcommunities to make our parish thrive.

We are looking for someone whose sermons inspire and educate, and someone whose arms can embrace the entire parish in pastoral care.

We hope you are that person.

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The Past

The history of St. Luke’s is closely intertwined with the history of the town of Los Gatos. Over the decades the links between the two have waxed and waned, but they go back to the beginning. In fact, the establishment of the congregation predates the incorporation of the town.

When the Reverend R. M. Chapman, DD arrived in 1882, in hopes of establishing a church, he found about a dozen families who were anxious to support his plans. On May 21, 1882, the first services were held in the Presbyterian Church. Later, space was found in Lydon Hall. Meanwhile, land was found, fundraising begun, and a generous gift of five hundred dollars received from the parish of St. Luke’s Germantown, Pennsylvania. The new mission was named St. Luke’s in gratitude for the gift.

Unfortunately, Doctor Chapman died in April of 1883 several months before the dedication of the new church on September 23. He was buried in the undercroft and his body is still there. The church, like all Episcopal churches in the state, was part of the Diocese of California. Three years later, almost to the day, St. Luke’s advanced from mission to parish status.

Over the rest of the nineteenth century, church and town both grew slowly. The town, which had begun as a cluster of farms around a mill, developed as a center for the production of apricots, grapes, and other crops typical of the Santa Clara Valley. Photographs of the original St. Luke’s show an austere, graceful wooden structure with elements of Norman architecture.

In the midst of growth, Los Gatos and St. Luke’s shared a disaster when the event remembered as the Livery Stable Fire occurred on October 13, 1901, and burned large areas of the town including the original St. Luke’s. Restoration and rebuilding took several years and it was not until May 23, 1903, that the new church was consecrated. This building, much modified, remains today. The Spanish mission-style façade, the arch, and the quatrefoil window are all recognizable in photographs from those years. Poking up inelegantly above the façade was a bell. This was not for purposes of worship; it was the town fire bell.

It’s an interesting sidelight on the rebuilding that the money for the windows was raised by the efforts of a thirteen year-old boy, Prescott Cookingham. He wrote, directed, and produced Among the Rockies, casting his young friends. The San Francisco Chronicle took note of his efforts and that they succeeded. St. Luke’s got its windows.

St. Luke’s in the early twentieth century appears to have been a thriving parish. Many families prominent in the church were also among the founders of the town. A chapter of The Daughters

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of the King, which would become the altar guild in later years, was very active in fundraising for a parish house. One such effort was a two-day program of dances in 1911, referred to as a “Kirmess,” at Ford’s Opera House—still standing around the corner from the church. Efforts like these were successful. The parish house was dedicated the next year, in 1912. Much modified and enlarged, it is today our parish hall.

In the 1920s the town began to be a haven for artists and writers, since it was beautiful and inexpensive. John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath while living here. The de Havilland sisters, Olivia and Joan, were graduates of Los Gatos High School.

Parish life at St. Luke’s took on new energy with the arrival of the Reverend Todd Gilmor in 1930. Fr. Gilmor was an energetic and enthusiastic man. He had commanded an artillery battery in World War I, and the band of his former regiment used to play the hymns at the Armistice Day memorials.

The Depression stimulated the parish. Money was tight, and church was an opportunity for community activities. The Sunday School grew rapidly. There were two service guilds, a senior and a youth choir, and a Young People’s Fellowship. The most enduring innovation to come out of these times was the Midnight Mass at Christmas. This tradition endured until 2015, drawing many people into the church who never came at any other time to experience the full beauty of Episcopal worship.

Fr. Gilmor was recalled to active duty in 1940, and was succeeded by the Reverend Stanley Clapham. Fr. Clapham was an enthusiastic proponent of high church liturgy. The transition from low church liturgy was well received, and St. Luke’s continued to grow during the war years. Three services were offered on Sunday, the guilds flourished, and the church began to seem too small.

However, it was not until 1952 that this problem could be addressed. Materials restrictions during the war years had made expansion impossible. Another outburst of energy, fueled by the growth of San Jose, made it possible to add the two offices and five classrooms that presently exist, to expand the parish hall, and to add the narthex and expand the sanctuary, giving St. Luke’s its present appearance.

In 1961 Fr. Clapham retired. He was succeeded by the Reverend Thomas Bogard who continued our high church practices. In other respects, the parish was somewhat informal. A parish cat named Gus lived in his office. Gus would pay visits to the Sunday School classes to the delight of the children.

When Fr. Bogard was forced by ill health to resign in 1964, the Reverend Edward M. Jacobs succeeded him. Fr. Jacobs served over twenty years, during which time, St. Luke’s became closely associated with the anti–Vietnam War movement. The parish underwent further physical changes, incorporating the side porch into the sanctuary, moving the organ and the choir, and adding the columbarium and the large wooden cross near it.

It was also during his ministry, in 1978, that the Diocese of California’s long southern string of churches established the Diocese of El Camino Real. St. Luke’s has been part of this diocese since that time.

Fr. Jacobs was succeeded by the Reverend Stuart Schlegel, PhD. During his tenure, St. Luke’s began its Pantry Program for the homeless, a bright spot in which the church takes justifiable

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pride. Many local volunteer groups and schools contribute to making this ministry the great success that it is.

Fr. Schlegel retired in 1991 to be succeeded by the Reverend David R. Breuer. Fr. Breuer was strongly attracted to the Sarum Rite and other liturgical roots of the early Church, and many of his innovations were in that direction. He continued the tradition of powerful and scholarly sermons until his retirement in 2015.

The Reverend Penelope Duckworth was called as interim rector in 2016. She has expanded our liturgical offerings with the introduction of a family-friendly Saturday evening service, and has vitalized our connection to the arts.

Meanwhile, the town of Los Gatos began to take on its current role as an upscale bedroom community to Silicon Valley. The farmers and artists of the first part of the century would find it difficult to fit in with the current crop of high tech, often wealthy, residents.

Similarly, St. Luke’s has found it increasingly difficult to remain relevant to the town. Apart from the highly successful Pantry Program, we have few strong connections to the community around us. Membership has slowly declined, and aged. The parish has never recovered financially from the recession of 1993 and revenues are just about what they were then. The influx of new people drawn here by the tech boom has not resulted in a restoration of our numbers. We struggle to find ways to reconnect to the community of which we have always been a part.

At present St. Luke’s sits where it has always sat, in the midst of a community that is used to rapid change, an island of the region’s past. The original windows still let in light from the sun over the Santa Cruz Mountains. The stone font, retrieved from the dirt during one of the renovation projects of the 1980s stands at the entrance to the sanctuary. The Mission Revival silhouette still faces the street.

This is our past. We are charged with the stewardship of its future.

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The Present

Who We Are

St. Luke’s is a home for those who are pursuing a spiritual path in the Episcopal Tradition. We offer members and visitors alike an inclusive place of peace, beauty, and relationship that reflects God’s saving presence through our rich tradition and intellectual openness.

St. Luke’s seeks to reflect the diversity of Silicon Valley in socioeconomic status, family structure, race, ethnicity, learning abilities, gender, belief systems, and sexual orientation. We believe every individual—child and adult—who comes to St. Luke’s is a child of God with a unique identity and a singular experience deserving of respect, and we welcome all into our midst.

Community Context

St. Luke’s is located in the heart of downtown Los Gatos, California. Los Gatos is approximately 60 miles south of San Francisco. The town sits at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is bounded by the metropolis of San Jose to the north and east and the small mountain communities to the south and west.

Los Gatos covers 14 square miles and has a population of 39,400. The town is home to approximately 3,000 businesses, and is a popular destination for restaurants and shopping. School-age children are served by the high-achieving Los Gatos Union School District and Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District.

Demographics from the 2010 census indicate that the town of Los Gatos is composed of 77% white residents, 11% Asian residents, 7% Hispanic residents, and 4% of residents who are members of two or more races. Los Gatos is an affluent community. In 2016 the median household income was more than double the state average.

Membership Demographics

St. Luke’s parish is made up of about 100 families. About 60% of the congregation lives within a five-mile radius of the church. The rest live in the surrounding towns and cities, from as far away as San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, and Morgan Hill.

On the whole, our parishioners tend to be white, over 60, reasonably affluent, and highly educated. They value intellectual curiosity in their spiritual lives. Our parish also includes about five young families with children, at varying levels of commitment and attendance.

Facilities

St. Luke’s has been in its location in downtown Los Gatos since 1883. The grounds currently include two buildings and a bell tower, with a garden and patio area in the center.

The first building houses the church, a Sunday School room, and the parish offices. The sanctuary includes a pipe organ that was extensively rebuilt in 1992 in a neo-Baroque style. When the buildings were remodeled in the 1970s, the memorial stained glass windows from the earlier church were saved and incorporated into the sanctuary and narthex.

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The second building houses the Parish Hall and a full kitchen, both updated in the early 2000s, and three additional rooms for educational use.

The garden area is a walled enclosure and includes a columbarium and memorial garden. Los Gatans appreciate the calm and quiet the grounds offer. Some come here regularly on their lunch hours to read.

There is limited parking in the church’s lot, with additional general parking within the town of Los Gatos.

Finances and Staff

St. Luke’s has an annual operating budget of approximately $300,000. Of this, 62% supports the compensation and benefits of the rector, music director/organist, and parish administrator. There is one part-time employee who oversees the nursery on Sunday mornings. Operating expenses are 20% of the budget, Mission and Outreach are 14%, and expenses for Ministry and Programs are 3%.

The last few years have been difficult financially for St. Luke’s as a significant number of regular large givers passed away, and some others left the area. While there are new families and individuals joining the church, their giving has not reached the same level. During 2016, we focused on keeping the parish’s eye on aligning income with expenses. Through the first half of 2016, this emphasis produced a significant surplus over expenses. The third quarter, predictably, was not as good, but with and excellent fourth quarter, the year ended with a significant surplus.

In addition to pledge income (74%) and regular “givers of record” income (15%), there is income from rental of the facilities to various non-profit organizations (7%), such as AA groups and meditation groups. St. Luke’s also participates as an Amazon Affiliate and an eScrip member, which together bring in over $2,000 per year.

The church has invested with the Diocesan Investment Trust in three funds. The largest fund is a Vestry-restricted fund for the purpose of subsidizing some portion of the rector’s housing costs. The other two funds are smaller and donor-restricted. One is dedicated to maintenance of the organ, and the other is dedicated to maintenance of the buildings and grounds.

St. Luke’s put new emphasis on its stewardship campaign, beginning in 2016. The campaign included a St. Luke’s Thank You Dinner, which is expected to be an ongoing tradition to thank everyone who gives as well as to answer questions about how our financial gifts are utilized for our church operations and ministries. Going forward, we hope to build on this stewardship momentum. Our goal for a year-round stewardship effort is well underway. As we improve our ongoing communications and updates, we continue to increase awareness of the importance of financial stability and of how much each person’s contributions of time, talent, and treasures contribute to St. Luke’s. We hope to expand into other fundraising efforts, whether for capital campaigns or special projects.

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St. Luke’s staff:

The Reverend Penelope Duckworth, Interim Rector The Reverend Mary Morrison, Interim Director of Music Dick Coulter, Interim Organist Pamela Thistle, Parish Administrator Stephanie Kaas, Nursery Attendant

In addition, St. Luke’s is blessed with the ministry of several non-stipendiary clergy who assist at services through the week:

The Reverend Clark Emerson The Reverend Nayan McNeill The Reverend Ernest Cockrell The Reverend Mary Morrison The Venerable Jo Weber

Liturgy and Music

Liturgy at St. Luke’s draws upon the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Historically there have been three services each Sunday at 8, 9, and 11 in the morning.

The 8 o’clock service is a spoken celebration of the Holy Eucharist, with a sermon, using Rite I. Those who attend come for the calm of quiet traditional worship at the start of the day when the church is at its most intimate.

At 9 o’clock, a Rite II Holy Eucharist is celebrated in the church, starting with the Penitential Order, without a sermon at its usual place. Instead, the sermon is preached during the coffee hour in the Parish Hall after the liturgy. This informal approach is centered on an open discussion of the topics expounded in the sermon.

Solemn High Mass is celebrated at 11 o’clock. A thurifer leads a full complement of acolytes down the aisle, followed by priests in their finest vestments. During the Eucharist, the haunting notes of the Lord’s Prayer echo throughout the sanctuary and the scent of incense rises.

Our newest liturgical offering is in some ways the polar opposite of 11 o’clock. At 5 o’clock on Saturday evenings we hold a short, informal, and family–friendly service in our courtyard when weather permits. Instead of ritual, we focus on participation, especially from younger attendees, including communal washing of confession stones and hand-drawn note cards for the Prayers of the People. Our hope was that this service would attract new members. Although this hasn’t happened to a large degree, it has reengaged a handful of loyal parishioners who had not been attending on Sundays.

There is also a regular pet-friendly Thursday evening Mass.

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St. Luke’s has special services and traditions throughout the church year, including singing the Great Litany on two Sundays during Lent, a Vigil at the Altar of Repose on Good Friday, the Great Vigil of Easter on the evening of Holy Saturday, a Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis’ Day, and a Children’s Pageant on Christmas Eve. Special music and church decorations are provided by parishioner donation on Christmas, Easter, and other major holidays.

Parish Organizations

St. Luke’s has a variety of ways for parishioners to get involved in the life of the parish.

Our Vestry currently has nine lay members, plus the Rector. The Treasurer and Clerk attend meetings, but are not currently members of the Vestry. There are a variety of Vestry subcommittees that provide input and advice on topics like buildings and grounds upkeep, finances, and marketing.

Over 40 parishioners serve on the liturgy team, helping as lectors, ushers, acolytes, and Eucharistic ministers at the various worship services. Our altar guild is responsible for keeping the church beautiful and well equipped. We have a small but talented group of singers who rotate as cantors at our 9 o’clock and 11 o’clock liturgies.

Our Parish Care team provides assistance to parishioners in need, including rides to doctor’s appointments and home visits. This is a small but vital ministry, and one of our most successful.

Our intrepid pool of office volunteers handles everything from production of the weekly bulletins to keeping the office stocked with important supplies.

Our Pantry Program allows parishioners and community members to directly help the homeless in our community.

In the last year, the Arts Committee has begun a program of outreach through the arts. This has included poetry readings, authors’ nights, and a well-received art show, featuring members of our community.

Education

St. Luke’s is an inquiring congregation, and we value education for both youth and adults.

There is a nursery provided for infants and toddlers that offers age-appropriate care and learning during the 9 o’clock and 11 o’clock services.

Sunday School is offered at the 9 o’clock service for kindergarten through fifth grade. A dedicated volunteer provides Lectionary-based weekly studies in a one-classroom setting incorporating various mediums of learning through art, projects, and other activities. Children join their parents in the sanctuary for communion and return to the classroom during the sermon in the Parish Hall.

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There are child-centered activities throughout the year such as the Children’s Christmas service, the Easter egg hunt, and the Blessing of the Animals. Children also serve as acolytes at the 9 o’clock service and provide music at selected services.

Adult education classes are offered on a variety of topics, including Bible study, literary study, special Lenten courses, and the popular “Episcopalian 101.” Classes are led by clergy or lay congregation members.

Occasionally, selected services are designated for an “instructed Eucharist.” As the Eucharist is celebrated, the actions taken by the clergy and the laypeople, as well as the history and tradition behind them, are explained.

Outreach

St. Luke’s has two main avenues of outreach into the wider community.

The first is our Pantry Program. Operating on Tuesday mornings, the program serves about 24 homeless community members, providing them a hot lunch, giving out food and vouchers for gasoline, clothing, and other services, and helping them access medical, dental, and pastoral assistance as needed. The Pantry Program also puts on themed holiday parties for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other occasions. Volunteers and resources come not just from St. Luke’s, but from other community organizations including St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Congregation Shir Hadash, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Los Gatos, and other secular organizations including local chapters of the Rotary Club, Kiwanis, and the AAUW.

Our second area of outreach is to the recovery community. By making our parish spaces available for low rental costs to AA and other twelve-step groups, we provide a sanctuary for healing and recovery.

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The Future

St. Luke’s has been a part of Los Gatos since the beginning. We have stood as an island of permanence in a rapidly changing community. We are open to all, wherever they find themselves on their spiritual journey. We delight in our traditions of reverent worship, intellectual and spiritual openness, and service to the wider community. From this place of tradition and quiet progress we look forward to becoming a revitalized, wiser St. Luke’s, committing ourselves to of another fifty years of change within tradition.

Our goals today and for the next generation include:

1. Building and strengthening our relationships with one another and with Los Gatos and the surrounding communities.

2. Responding to changing demographics while honoring and safeguarding our Anglican tradition.

3. Growing our resources and our membership, and being responsible stewards.

Our Community

St. Luke’s aspires to regain our traditional presence in the local community. We seek a deeper connection to the people of Los Gatos. Our church reflects the mix of widely differing worlds within Silicon Valley. For these reasons, we believe we are called to do a better job of reaching out “beyond our walls” to offer our gifts in the spirit of Christ. It is an ideal of ours that we become a center of community life—a meeting place to discuss local and worldly concerns as well as to welcome all spiritual seekers.

Our Tradition

We honor our sacred space and respect the beauty of the holy liturgy. While doing so, we continue to provide an oasis for Los Gatos and the wider community. We aspire to grow in love by embracing, within our tradition, all who may come through our doors, wherever they are in their spiritual journey. Our congregation deeply appreciates intellectual sermons that feed our eagerness to learn.

Our Grounds

Given St. Luke’s prominent location in Los Gatos, our church is a treasure for all to admire and come to. When our bell rings the hours, it can be heard across the center of town. We are fortunate to have many bikers, walkers, joggers, and shoppers who pass the traditional

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mission-style beauty of our church every day. We mean to enhance it with landscaping and art to emphasize our openness to those who pass by.

Our Parish

We are graced with many talents: musicians, techies, writers, painters, and many who have demonstrated strong leadership capabilities in the wider community. We are exploring new ways to share these gifts with each other, and we are looking towards a renewed focus on pastoral care. Going forward, we “would like to begin to hold Living Room Conversation gatherings” so that all have a chance to participate in the issues, concerns, and thanksgivings that affect St. Luke’s. By restarting our Sunday School program, we are reaching out to the next generation.

The future is unknowable and challenging. There is no doubt that in twenty years’ time, Los Gatos and the region around it will be very different from what we know today. We at St. Luke’s seek to engage these changes, learning from the future to come while bringing forward the riches of our past.

In twenty years, we hope that St. Luke’s will still stand as an oasis for a bustling community, with the addition of local art gracing our walls and evening discussion sessions on topics ranging from the Johannine Prologue to water usage in Los Gatos.

In twenty years, we hope that St. Luke’s will still echo with the chant of the Great Litany, with the addition of a chorus of young and diverse voices singing the ancient words.

In twenty years, we hope that St. Luke’s will be an engaging, warm, and committed witness for Christ.

We hope you see yourself in this future.

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Appendix A

To inform the development of this Parish Profile, the St. Luke’s Rector Search Committee engaged the congregation in a variety of ways including small, in-home dinner group conversations, an interactive timeline, and a comprehensive survey. Additionally, the Vestry and parish leadership worked with the congregation to articulate shared values and the creation of a mission/vision statement. This work was deepened in a Vestry retreat day with Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves and a strategic planning day with Canon Jesus Reyes.

Approximately 67 parishioners took the survey, which in addition to “fill in the bubble” responses, provided for open-ended responses to such questions as…

If you had to pick your favorite thing at St. Luke’s what would it be and why?

If you had to pick your least favorite thing about St. Luke’s what would it be and why? Do you have any suggestions for making it better?

Where would you like to see St. Luke’s go in the future?

Responses varied but emergent themes include:

A desire for our parish to grow;

a desire to maintain a “high church” approach to liturgy;

a desire for our new rector to have balance between intellectual and pastoral skills;

a desire to attract younger people; and

a desire for St. Luke’s to play a larger role in the community.

Sample comments:

“I would like to see it have a more vibrant place in the community. I think we are missing critical mass to make that happen.”

“Double the congregation size.”

“Stay alive! Draw in younger people. Become hip?”

“Continue to grow relationships through gatherings (coffee hours, adult education, Sunday School, music, etc.). A renewed beautification of the landscape, courtyard, and front of the church. Continue to try new things, like the Art Show, Saturday Service, or movie nights. More of a prominent place in the town of Los Gatos, more open to public interaction (not just the pantry program). Grow financially to support programs like strong music, Sunday School, Bible study, pastoral care, and building and grounds.”

“Intellectually stimulating and with a greater commitment to community.”

“I hope that it maintains it Anglo-Catholic heritage with excellent liturgy, great sermons, and social action.”

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“I would like to see St. Luke’s maintain the best of its past and open to new ideas.”

“I really believe that St. Luke’s can keep its tradition and character while also reaching out much more to the people of Los Gatos and the surrounding area. I realize that church attendance and membership are down nationwide, but with time, patience, and a willingness to try new things, I do think St. Luke’s can grow.”

“St. Luke’s liturgical life is unique to our diocese; I wouldn’t want to lose it. Our new rector should be competent in sung liturgy (and enjoy leading it), and a good preacher. S/he should also ensure that there is adequate pastoral care (especially for our older members), regular education/formation for both adults and children, and adequate administration of the parish.”

“Look forward and find a new rector that is more like Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves—energetic, pragmatic, organizationally disciplined, intellectually sound, and embracing the reality of living in the 21st century—and ready to take us to 2025 and beyond!”

“Bells and smells—love the traditional ways”

“The most important thing is that we are High Church”

“Friendly, welcoming people, physical building, and grounds.”

“High Church and excellent sermons by Fr. David.”

“Sermon, music, and people.”

“The columbarium, the patio, the gardens—the sanctuary—the small and friendly community—the sermons that put current events in perspective and appeal to the intellect—the breadth of liturgical options—and the discussion after/within the service.”

In summary, St. Luke’s Los Gatos is looking for a rector who, in addition to appreciating a traditional approach to liturgy, also

• understands the parish as an organization and as part of the community of Los Gatos;

• has strong twenty-first century leadership skills, meaning he/she values and practices critical thinking, creativity in solving problems, collaboration, and excellent communication;

• is skilled in, and comfortable using, shared leadership;

• has a teaching and learning orientation along with a strong pastoral presence.

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Appendix B

Community Facts (Source: City-Data.com)

As of 2013 (unless otherwise noted)

Town Website: www.town.los-gatos.ca.us

School Districts

Los Gatos Union School District (K-8): www.lgusd.org Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District: www.lgsuhsd.org

Los Gatos Town Population: 30,735

Racial Composition

White 76.6% Asian 11.8% Hispanic 5.7% Two or more races 2.8% Black 0.8%

Education Level for Residents over age 25

High school or higher 97.7% Bachelor’s Degree or higher 69.1% Graduate or Professional Degree 31.4%

Los Gatos California (comparative purposes)

Median Resident Age 45.5 years 35.7 years Median Household Income $122,893 $60,190 Estimated Median house/condo value $1,000,000+ $373,100

Mean Housing Prices

All Units $816,608 Detached Homes $923,750 Attached Homes $553,521

Median Gross Rent $1,786

March 2016 Cost of Living Index 154.3 (Very high. U.S. Average is 100)

Major Employers

Columbia Health Care/Mission Oaks Hospital El Camino Hospital, Los Gatos Los Gatos Union School District Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District Netflix Safeway Alain Pinel Realtors Courtside Tennis Club Town of Los Gatos Monolithic Power Systems