As an immigrant, one of the most startling adjustments to my worldview was the shift from a community shaped understanding of the self to that of the Western view of the autonomous self. My experience as one deeply tethered to community, and the community to me, with certain expectations and accountability, has led me to consider the concept of the Body of Christ as indicative of not just a state of "being," but more importantly of the Body as always being in motion. Throughout my ordination process toward priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of NY, and now as parish priest, I struggle to reconcile two profoundly different, yet equally valid ways of being a Christian and a church. AS one of the few recent immigrant women ordained in the Episcopal Church, I believe I bring an uncommon style of leadership and insight into the life of the Church that would contribute toward a richer experience of Christian life. This project seeks to study how the ministry of recent immigrant women clergy in mainline churches impacts the life and practice of Christian beliefs in the congregations they serve. Furthermore, it will investigate how the prevailing Western view of a personality driven, hierarchical type of leadership inhibits, or fosters unconventional styles of leadership and church life that could prove crucial to the current conversations of vitality and growth for the declining mainline churches in America.