Professional Experience Highlights
The Reverend Meghan F. Froehlich is a priest, executive leadership coach, facilitator, hospice chaplain, photographer, and writer. She brings over 25 years’ experience in management, finance, technology, pastoral care, and preaching to her clients, congregation members, and colleagues.
Before being called to ordained ministry, Meghan was a consultant based in Washington, DC with national and international clients in management, finance, information technology and business process redesign.
Meghan currently serves on the Presiding Bishop’s staff of The Episcopal Church as Director of the Office for Transition Ministry, where she supports dioceses, bishops, transition ministers, clergy, search chairs, seminaries, and others in the work of search and call processes. She also collaborates with the General Convention Office and Church Pension Group Research in analyzing churchwide data and sharing trends with key decision makers.
Prior to this ministry, Meghan served The Episcopal Diocese of Kansas as Canon to the Ordinary. Meghan’s work included regular duties of the Canon to the Ordinary: preaching, transition ministry oversight/implementation, congregational development, staff development, ordination process, Title IV disciplinary process, inter-diocesan coordination, pastoral care, etc. Additionally, she also led diocesan process redevelopment, technology evaluation and upgrades, and provided presence and leadership in the diocese while the Bishop traveled extensively for the wider Church.
As an Episcopal priest, Meghan has served large and small, rural and urban parishes. She has been active in leadership in several dioceses in congregational development, ordination formation training, preaching enhancement, and has international experience in Honduras, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Kenya, and the Middle East.
Meghan received a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Pastoral Leaders in 2009 and explored the impact of local pre-Christian religious practices on the development of Christianity in the UK and Ireland. She received two Calvin Institute for Christian Worship grants (2010 and 2013) for exploring music in worship and worship outside of the church building. Meghan served as one of seven faculty members for The Episcopal Church’s Fresh Start national program for five years, and also as a Diocesan Trustee for five years during times of economic stress. She is published in the areas of eucharistic theology, financial management, and hospice care.
Meghan is canonically resident in the Diocese of Ohio, and is adjunct priest with Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Old Dominion University and her Master of Divinity degree from Duke University.
Nature and Animals
Meghan loves the outdoors in all seasons. She daily walked and hiked with her beloved border collie, Theo, who is now in God’s nearer presence. She has solo trekked the 69-mile St. Cuthbert’s Way in the borders of Scotland and England, from Melrose Abbey to Holy Island – Lindisfarne. These days she enjoys spending time hiking and walking with neighbors and exploring local and county park trails.
Music
Piano and voice were Meghan’s first instruments during childhood. She played alto saxophone and flute in high school. (Let’s just say that saxophone practice was encouraged outdoors initially!) Later in life Meghan fell in love with harp and built her own harp in 2004. Since then she plays a Dusty Strings Allegro 26 and other travel harps. She is an alto in choirs, and an accomplished cantor.
Her favorite band is a Scottish band from the Isle of Skye named Runrig that plays Celtic rock and roll, with a Gaelic twist. She loves most music genres including classical, especially Bach, Palestrina, Fauré, and Handel.
Photography
Meghan is an avid photographer, most often with what is in hand, her iPhone.
She has also facilitated “Praying with Your Phone Camera” interactive workshops for a variety of participants, linking the awareness of taking a photo with the awareness of God’s presence.
Technology
Often referred to by her friends as a “geek for God,” Meghan has been involved with information technology since the 1980s.
Motivated by the use of all tools to strengthen human connections and promote love and compassion, Meghan uses her technology skills to assist others in working more easily, and connecting more broadly.
She has particular expertise in handheld devices, PCs and Macs, financial systems, database systems, social media, distance teaching and learning, and video conferencing.
Advocacy and Collaboration
Meghan has been involved through The Episcopal Church as an advocate on a variety of issues. Following the lead of the Church’s teachings, she has been a leader in her local community and churchwide. She grounds her advocacy in collaboration with others and in prayer. Over the years she has been active in housing, food, healthcare, education, equality, immigration, and environmental ministries and initiatives.
In 2014, Meghan served as chaplain with an interdisciplinary medical team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and other healthcare professionals, working alongside local medical teams in rural Kenya. She was invited to preach at a local parish in Nakuru, Kenya.
Spirituality
Meghan balances her spirituality with prayer and action. Daily prayer grounds her in the rhythms of the church year and the saints, and includes community and personal prayer.
Meghan finds a close connection to God in many ways… nature, music, friendship, active ministry, listening to others, and worship.
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