Virtual Convocation for all Regions

Saturday, August 16, 2025, 9:00-11:00 am

Zoom information will be sent via email to all registered clergy, delegates and alternates.

The 5 Regional Convocations will take place on a single day, beginning via Zoom at 9:00 am together in a combined diocesan-wide online convocation meeting with Bishop’s reflection and budget presentation, followed by individual and separate regional convocation gatherings and elections from 10:00 to 11:00 am.

9:00 am Diocesan-Wide Convocation Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82613934443

10:00 am Regional Convocations : Front Range Region https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83945932961

Candidates for Front Range Region Clergy and Lay Representatives to the Executive Committee & Standing Committee

This year we will be electing Front Range Executive Committee members and representatives for the Standing Committee. We will be electing one Clergy representative and two Lay representative each to a three year term. Donna Colville is up for re-election for another 3 year term as a Lay representative to the standing committee. For more information about what being on the Executive Committee entails, please contact our Regional Missioner Balfour Patterson at bal43rd@gmail.com.

Because of the nature of the Zoom Convocation, we will not be accepting nominations from the floor this year. Elections will take place via online at Convocation on Saturday, August 16.

To see the current Executive Committee, please click here >

Clergy Representative Candidate for Standing Committee

The Rev. Melissa Adzima, St. Stephen’s Longmont

The Rev. Melissa Bruckart Adzima has served as the Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Longmont since 2019. She is the mom of two feral princesses, 8 and 6, and they are known to be spicy or extra spicy in their daily lives. She and her husband, Alan, started dating in sophomore year of university and have been married for 15 years this August. They have 2 cats and a crawdad named Strawberry. Reach out to Mother Mary Kate if you’re interested in Strawberry’s origin story.

A cradle Episcopalian, she has been in ministry in almost every way imaginable, except the Standing Committee. Ordained at the age of 24 on December 4, 2010, her experience ranges from Northwestern Pennsylvania to Northern Virginia, and here in Denver and Longmont. Her BA is in Spanish and Psychology; she received her MDiv from VTS in 2011. Her family moved to Colorado in 2014 where she served as the Associate at St. Andrew’s Denver. Since she began at St. Stephen’s, the community has opened their doors to their local community, with a focus toward queer and trans brave & safe spaces, bilingual families, and creation care. She cares deeply about lay and ordained formation, and was a Diocesan Trainer for Discernment Committees for many years. Most recently, she was a member of two deputations to The General Convention and co-chaired one deputation. She has served on the boards for the High Plain Region, Cathedral Ridge, CDI, and St. Benedict’s Health and Healing. In 2012, she attended Seabury Western/Kellogg School of Business for Nonprofit Management and Leadership for Ministry. In 2024, she graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary’s program Iron Sharpening Iron with an Executive Leadership Certificate.

She loves musicals and singing, and you may find her chanting on the Installation and Ordination circuit. After 20 years of being out of the dance studio, she joined a jazz dance class just this month and will continue with ballet in the fall. If you can’t get a hold of her, she is collecting rocks, hiking, and camping in the wilderness with her family.

Lay Representative Candidate (Re-election) for Standing Committee

Donna Colville, St. Aidan’s Boulder

Donna Colville has attended St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church since 1998. In those 27 years, she has served as Stewardship Coordinator, two terms on Vestry, a member of the Finance Committee and as both Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer.

Donna has a background in Business Management. She has an MBA in Accounting and Finance and a BA in Liberal Arts. Along with her formal education, she has training in group process facilitation. She had a career in construction and engineering, holding management positions in both finance and in Operations.

Donna is committed to community involvement and as an avid photographer has served two separate terms as President of the Flatirons Photography Club. She also served as an Officer and Board member of her HOA. Donna is an enthusiastic gardener and cook, and along with her husband enjoys traveling and music.

Lay Representative Candidate

Patti Navilio, St. Paul’s Central City

Patti Navilio has been a member of Saint Paul’s Church in Central City since Christmas of 2016. She has been Bishop’s Warden since the beginning of 2021. Patti was raised Catholic and became an Episcopalian when she remarried in 1995. The Catholic Church would not preside over marriage services unless she had an annulment. It was the similar liturgy that first drew her to the Episcopalian church. She has never once looked back at Catholicism. She realized that the inclusiveness of the Episcopalian church was much more suited to her own believes of inclusion and living only to fill the mandates of Jesus and not the Vatican.

Patti’s career has been in the fields of residential brokerage, design and construction. She ran her own construction company with 30 employees and specialized in landmark properties in her hometown of Chicago. She received her BA in Psychology from Loyola University, Chicago in 1978. This background has enabled Patti to help secure State Historic Funds to do needed renovations at the church. At this stage in her life, Patti is focused on giving to society and along with her other church members meet the needs of the underserved in Gilpin County. With this goal in mind, Saint Paul’s hopes to open a school in the fall of 2026 that will help a small group of students who are not doing well in a traditional classroom.

Patti lives with her husband, Michael Lavender and their dog Layla in Black Hawk, Colorado. Patti has one 43-year-old son that lives in Athens, Georgia from her first marriage and two stepson’s; one 40- year old that lives in Springfield, Missouri and a 38 -year old that lives with his wife and daughter in Longmont. They enjoy being close to their only grandchild and look forward to the arrival of their second granddaughter in September of this year. When Patti and Mike are not spending time with their kids and granddaughter, you may find them at a classical concert, an opera or a rock concert. And when they are lucky enough to get away, they like to spend time on their sailboat which is currently in the Caribbean and will be moved to the Mediterranean for further adventures.

2025 Convocation Agenda:

Our time together will begin at 9:00 am with a reflection from Bishop Kym, followed by a presentation of the proposed budget. From 10:00 to 11:00 am, participants will break out into their respective regional convocations for meetings and elections.