Joseph Rhodenhiser

St. Peter’s, Del Mar

Nominee’s Bio: Joseph is a member and former vestry member of St. Peter’s Del Mar. At St. Peter’s, he is a regular Eucharistic Minister, serves on the Endowment Committee, teaches Sunday School/Youth Group, is a Eucharistic Visitor, and is a 2025 Diocesan Convention delegate. He is licensed through the diocese as a Lay Catechist, Evangelist, and Eucharistic Visitor. Joseph also helped found a young adult group at St. Peter’s.

In his youth in the Diocese of Michigan, he was a convention delegate twice, as well as being a convention page/part of the youth presence multiple times, went to EYE17, and was involved in diocesan youth council, and in planning and executing Happening and other diocesan youth event

Joseph is married to Madeline Polhill and works in nonprofit/academic biomedical research.

Nominee’s Statement in Favor of Their Candidacy: I am deeply committed to the mission and ministry of the Church and believe in intentional discernment about what God is calling us to do in this next chapter. I enjoy the specifics of church governance and our church’s history and traditions, and I am currently enrolled in CDSP’s online Constitution and Canons course. During the 2024 General Convention, I was happy to talk to anyone who would listen about various resolutions, their contents, and their fates. If elected I would seek to bring what my rector, Rev. Mtr. Paige Blair-Hubert, called my “holy scrutiny” to our time and work together.