For the past six months we of the Bishop Search Committee have been engaged in mutual discernment with those who applied to explore with us whom God might be calling to be the 11th Bishop of Colorado. Very soon you will see the fruits of those labors in the form of a slate of nominees and, quite naturally, your initial focus is bound to be more on them than on the process by which they came to be nominated. Before you learn who they are, we thought it would be helpful to share with you a brief outline of how we went about our work, and what emerged most important in our thoughts and prayers. As we believe this summary will reflect, this has been holy, demanding, and deeply fulfilling work, and all of us who have been engaged in it are deeply grateful for the trust placed in us by you, the leaders and people of The Episcopal Church in Colorado.