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The Rev. David Anglada

The Rev. David Anglada

Current Position: Pastor
 
Congregation Membership: Grace Lutheran Church in Malverne, New York
 
Date and Year of Birth: 12/12/54
 
Date and Year of Ordination: 2/11/1996
 
Previous Positions:
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
 
Education and Earned Degrees (with institutions and years, most recent first):
Advanced standing student-Doctor of Ministry Program-United Lutheran Seminary (Philadelphia/Gettysburg)
Master of Sacred Theology-The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Master of Arts in Religion-The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Master of Theology- Logos Bible College and Graduate School, Jacksonville, Florida
Bachelor of Arts-SUNY Empire State College, New York City

 

List up to five (5) current or past synod or churchwide activities that would inform your service as bishop of this synod.
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
 
List up to five (5) current or past community-related activities that would inform your service as bishop of this synod.
Board Member, Angel’s Unaware, Bronx, New York
Board Member, The Latino Action Center, Bronx, New York
Board Member, Lutheran Social Services of New York, New York City

 

What gifts would you bring to the office of bishop of this synod? (1,000 characters maximum, with spaces)
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.}
 
What do you see as the principal challenge to this synod in the next six (6) years, and how would you address it? (1,000 characters maximum, with spaces)
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.}
 
 
Describe your leadership style. (1,000 characters maximum, with spaces)
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.
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