Meet Our Transition Consultant

By Rev. Lee Curtis

Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é!

 I am the Rev. Lee Curtis, and it’s been an amazing gift to work with the Diocese of Navajoland this past spring and summer. I was brought in this past February to serve as your Diocesan Transition Consultant and to continue in the good work that began among you last year. I currently live in Austin, Texas, where my wife is attending Seminary of the Southwest as a seminarian of the Diocese of the Rio Grande, the Diocese I served as Canon to the Ordinary until we moved last summer.

 I had the privilege of co-leading the process that produced the Mission Statement for the Diocese of Navajoland, and I love to see the spiritual depth that prayer has brought to the Diocese and beyond. Throughout that process, my first thought was always that the prayer life and mission of the Diocese of Diné Bikeyah has to begin in Diné Bizaad. Your Standing Committee shares this value and is working hard to bring the entire Diocese into a new phase of our life together, centered in who we are and the language and traditions that hold us together.

 I continue to look forward to supporting your Standing Committee in the work of building a new Diocese and discerning and electing your next Bishop. My deep prayer is that this process brings us closer together and finds a new way of being church built on K’é Bee Hózhó.

 Peace,
 Lee+