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The Staff of Saint Francis Episcopal Church

Pastor

The Reverend Jennifer Phillips

email: stfechurch@qwestoffice.net or http://stfrancisnm.org/contact

phone:(505)896-1999

Jennifer M. Phillips, an Episcopal priest, came to St. Francis after eleven years as Rector of St. Augustine’s Church, Kingston, Rhode Island. Her previous ministries include Rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, hospital chaplaincy, and a decade of front-lines AIDS ministry and education. She has M.Div. and D.Min degrees from Andover-Newton Theological School; she also studied at King’s College, London, and Wellesley College.

Phillips’s other publications have both depth and breadth. She has published poetry in many poetry journals. Her articles on social justice, AIDS, and liturgics have appeared in Christianity and Crisis, The Witness, Episcopal Life, The Living Church, and Anglican Theological Review. She is the author of the book Preaching Creation, from Cowley Publications, and is a major contributor to collections of prayers and liturgies now in use in the Episcopal Church: Enriching Our Worship 2, 3,4 and 5, and Gleanings: Essays on Expansive Language with Prayers for Various Occasions, and Ambassadors for God: Envisioning Reconciliation Rites for the 21st century, from Church Publishing.

Her great love is parish ministry and – to use a lovely if old-fashioned term – the care of souls. Jennifer’s mother lives in Barnstable, Cape Cod, but she also has a community of close friends and a new Godchild in Santa Fe.

Curate

The Reverend Lin S. Lilley

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phone:(505)896-1999 Lin Lilley (who prefers to be called “Lin” ) was ordained on October 8, 2011 as the first curate in the Rio Grande Diocese. Lin was trained in the Diocesan School for Ministry in 2008-2010 and ordained as a deacon in September 2010. On the Deanery level Lin serves as ex officio parliamentarian and, in 2010, led the team that wrote a new set of Deanery bylaws and standing rules. On the Diocesan level Lin served in 2010 as chair of the Credentials Committee which certified clergy and laity who could vote for the election of the bishop. She also serves on the Commission on Ministry of the Baptized, and Bishop Michael recently re-appointed her for a second one-year term. In her career as a consultant, Lin has assisted attorneys in selecting over a thousand juries in courts throughout the U.S. In order to serve the Church, Lin now practices almost exclusively in New Mexico. Her book on the O. J. Simpson criminal and civil trials was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1997. Thirty years ago she was one of the founders of the American Society of Trial Consultants and served as the Society’s president in the 1980s. Lin received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in communication, with specialties in public address and persuasion, has served her well in her years as a consultant. Now her years of secular training seem to be part of God’s plan for her ministry. Lin’s family includes three step-children (and ten grandchildren) in Iowa and three siblings in Texas.


Parish Administrator

Sandra La Luz

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phone:(505)896-1999

Sandra La Luz is the parish administrator for St. Francis Episcopal Church.

Sandra, originally from upstate New York's Andirondack Mountains, moved to Albuquerque in November 2011 from southern California to be closer to her family (she has two wonderful adult children).









Choir Director / Organist


Tom McDaniel

email: stfechurch@qwestoffice.net or http://stfrancisnm.org/contact

phone:(505)896-1999

Tom McDaniel is our organist and choirmaster, following a rich and respectable career. Tom began his church music interest as a boy soprano in the All Saints Episcopal Church boys choir in Richmond, Virginia. He studied organ with the choirmaster Charles Craig. Tom holds a Master's degree in organ and choir conducting from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He has served as organist-choir master at the First Presbyterian Church, San Antonio; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Washington, DC; Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia and organist at White's Chapel United Methodist Church, Southlake, Texas.