Parish Administrators
We are currently blessed with two wonderful volunteer Parish Administrators!
Together, they keep our church office open between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm Monday through Friday. Both greet visitors with a friendly smile and are the go-to people for anyone who wants to schedule an activity or use a church meeting room. So if you have questions about St. John’s, start with Marsha or Jane. They will find the answers for you.
Nursery Attendant
Leah Caton provides trained nursery care to the very young, from birth through age 3. Leah has current first aid and CPR training and has completed the required diocesan classes, Safeguarding God’s Children and Safeguarding God’s People. Leah provides care every Sunday between 9:30 am and 11:30 am. She also provides care for other church events and activities.
Pastor
Nigel was born and grew up in London, England, graduating from two different universities in Bangor, Wales and Birmingham, England, then from an Ecumenical seminary (Anglican/Methodist/Presbyterian/Congregationalist) in Birmingham. He then spent a year as a World Council of Churches Ecumenical Fellow at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, where he also graduated from the Episcopal Church’s west coast seminary, the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.
Returning to London for a year, he served as a deacon in a parish in Wimbledon, but declined priestly ordination in the Church of England because of his opposition to the C of E’s refusal to ordain women as priests. He emigrated to this country in 1979 and was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Indianapolis, where he served for 19 years, before becoming rector of St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods, Freeland, WA. from which he retired in 2019. He is currently finishing his D. Min. at San Francisco Theological Seminary in Marin, CA. His wife Rachel is rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Everett, and they live with their dachshund, collie, and two snowshoe Siamese cats on 3 acres on the south end of Whidbey Island.