RECTOR
peggy@stalbansaustin.org

Peggy graduated with Masters in Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School in 2019. During seminary, she did her field education with churches in New York City. Most recently she served as the Associate Rector of St. Chrysostom's in Chicago. Her ordination was sponsored by Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California. She was baptized there in 2010 and ordained to the priesthood in 2019. Prior to becoming a priest, she spent nine years translating Buddhist lectures from Mandarin to English for Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation. For six years before that, she worked for the Public Interest Network as a campus organizer, central recruitment administrator, budget administrator and online organizer. In her spare time she enjoys exploring the city of Austin- trying out coffee shops and trails and vegetarian options, theorizing about the MCU and other fandoms, and testing out new recipes.

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC; ORGANIST
dottie@stalbansaustin.org

Dottie became the part-time Director of Music and Organist in early 2014. She received her Master of Sacred Music degree in 1978 from SMU in Dallas. Dottie has been the organist and/or choir director at six other churches in Austin during the past 40 years and is thrilled to be serving and worshiping again in an Episcopal Church. The beautiful pipe organ completed in Fall of 2016 and establishing the Handbell Choir were projects that were completed under Dottie's direction. She really enjoys working with the dedicated folks in St. Alban’s choir and handbell choir and welcomes new ringers and singers!

YOUTH MINISTER
lisaperez@stalbansaustin.org

Lisa has been the part-time Youth Minister since 2012. A certified teacher, she develops and implements programs for seventh through twelfth grades. Lisa’s passion is to support youth in their spiritual formation as they navigate their teenage years. Her goal is to provide programs and instruction that help youth build a faith, and faith community, that will stick with them into adulthood. Lisa oversees the Episcopal Youth Community.

Parish Administrator

Janessa is a lifelong Episcopalian, and she along with her wife, Jessica, and daughter, Molly, have been attending St. Alban’s regularly for the last three years.  She is originally from Alvin, Texas (hometown of Nolan Ryan!) and earned her undergraduate degree from Dallas Baptist University in 2006. In her full-time life, Janessa fulfills her calling to help people as a real estate agent, and she is excited for the opportunity to be of service to God and her church community as parish administrator.

Janessa plans to be in the office on Mondays and Thursdays.

CHILDREN’S MINISTER
alex@stalbansaustin.org

Alex has been a member of St. Albans for 12 years. Her faith journey began in Children’s Chapel, and it’s only fitting that she comes full circle to continue her faith journey in Children’s Chapel. She feels it’s an honor to be the St. Alban’s Children’s Minister, and she’s looking forward to teaching God’s everlasting love to our kiddos here.

Greetings! My name is Jewels Wolf and currently I am beginning my second year at Seminary of the Southwest as a Postulant to Holy Orders, which is one of the steps in the process towards becoming ordained as a priest or deacon in the Episcopal Church. I am being sponsored by the Diocese of the Rio Grande where I went through a yearlong formal discernment process. My sending church is Epiphany Episcopal Church in Socorro, New Mexico.

I have been an Episcopalian most of life. I was confirmed when I was 12 years old and since that time I have been involved in the life of the church in a wide variety of ways, including serving as an acolyte, lay reader, and vestry member. While my childhood and early adult years were spent in western Washington in the Diocese of Olympia, for the past few years before moving to Austin my wife Edith and I were both teaching school in Navajo, NM, which is small community on the Navajo Reservation approximately 45 miles north of Gallup. Edith taught special ed and I taught fifth grade. Edith is now teaching special ed at an elementary school not far from the seminary.

I want to close this short introduction by saying how excited I am to be doing my 2 years of field education here at St. Alban’s. I have truly enjoyed my time attending St. Alban’s over the summer. During that time, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many of you at coffee hour, and I look forward to getting to know all of you over the course of the next two years. I am thankful for this opportunity to learn from you all and to grow in my ministerial skills while here at St. Alban’s.