Parish Administrators
Jane Berard
Marsha Russell
We are currently blessed with two wonderful volunteer Parish Administrators! We are very grateful for their administrative ministries!
Together, they keep our church office open between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm Tuesday 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.
Parish Musician and Choir Director
Greg Fulton joined us in December 2024, following Janice Halvorson’s retirement. Greg graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 1993 with a bachelor of Music in composition, guitar performance, liturgical practices, and instrumental and choral conducting. He’s worked in liturgical settings ever since, in churches of several denominations, most recently in a Lutheran church in Everett. He has a comprehensive and diverse background in the greater Seattle region, and is widely respected for his musical skills. We are grateful that he is with us.
Pastor
Nigel Taber-Hamilton
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 the C of E’s then-refusal to ordain women as priests. He emigrated to this country, 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 on Whidbey Island, WA. in 2000. Nigel has been our pastor/priest-in-charge since 2022. His wife Rachel is rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Everett, and they live with their dachshund Henry, two snowshoe Siamese cats – Devon and Samantha – and one tuxedo cat – Sylvester – on 3 acres on the south end of Whidbey Island. We are very grateful that he is with us.