Sam Candler
Thank you for an opportunity to continue serving as a trustee of The Church Pension Fund. I grew up in a small Episcopal Church in Georgia, went to California for college and to Connecticut for seminary; I have taught as an adjunct professor at Emory University. I am glad to be a seasoned priest who has served parishes in three different dioceses. Presently dean of St. Philip's Cathedral, Atlanta, I advocate that strong parishes, small and large -and their leaders, lay and ordained-are the future of the church. I enjoy raising up integrity, energy, and health; and I want to represent those values in meeting the pension fund challenge of growing lay pension benefits. I have served on many school boards, and, in South Carolina, on the Governor's Commission on Race Relations. I am a deputy to General Convention, committed to caring for the details of our wider church life. I hope to help the pension fund steward the generous spirit of Anglicanism as a gift to the world!