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The Rev. Nancy W. Hanna, Associate Rector
Rev. Hanna has been at Calvary-St. George's since September 2004. Born in Washington, DC, Nancy grew up in Long Island, N.Y., earned her B.A. degree from Harvard University, her Ed.M. degree from Lesley College, and her M.Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary in NYC. She taught second grade at the Fieldston School in Riverdale and continued her work as a homemaker and mother.
When she returned to church she was drawn immediately to Christian education, and eventually to study at Union Theological Seminary, where she unexpectedly found her teachers urging her to consider ordination. Nancy entered the parish ministry in 1985 serving as Associate Rector and then Interim Rector at St. Mary's, Scarborough, NY for four years. She was Associate Rector at Christ's Church, Rye, NY, for six years. During a 1995 sabbatical leave in Oxford, England to study methods of evangelism, she encountered the Alpha course at Holy Trinity Brompton Church, in central London and returned to teach Alpha in her home for her Rye parishioners. She organized the first two Alpha training conferences in New York attended by nearly 1000 clergy and lay leaders in 1996-97.
In September 1996, the Rev. Nicky Gumbel, the vicar (rector) of Holy Trinity Brompton, leader of Alpha at HTB since 1991 and pioneer of the global expansion of the Alpha Course to over 150 countries on every continent, asked Nancy's husband Dr. Alistair M. Hanna to leave his 25 year career as a managing director of McKinsey and Co., the management consulting firm, to found Alpha USA. The Hannas remain involved with the global Alpha initiative today.
At Calvary-St. George's in addition to supporting the rector in the core duties of a parish priest: (leading worship and preaching at all services, pastoral counseling, officiating at weddings, baptisms, and funerals), Nancy teaches 3 Alpha courses a year and has initiated The Marriage Course and The Marriage Preparation Course currently running three times per year. Her service to the Episcopal Diocese of NY includes chairman of the Evangelism committee, member of the budget committee and service as a trustee of the Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine, in New York City.
Alpha is a ten week practical introduction to the Christian faith aimed at lapsed of non-church goers, the skeptical, and the just curious. It provides the nonjudgmental, non-threatening environment Nancy was looking for in 1995. She has taught nearly 1500 people on Alpha courses over the past 11 years.
The Very Rev. Warren E. Haynes
The Very Rev. Warren Haynes joined our clergy team on Feb. 5, 2006.
Warren was born in Pensacola, FL, is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of the South at Sewanee, TN. Warren was ordained deacon and priest and served as rector of Old Christ Church in Savannah, Ga. and then at Calvary Church, Memphis, Tenn. While there his first wife and mother of their 3 children died.
In 1977 Warren became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, TX. (Hence his title, the Very Reverend!) He met his current wife, Mary Melikian, an artist and painter while doing Lenten preaching at St. Bartholomew's, mid-town Manhattan.
From 1986-1998 Warren served as rector of The Church of St. Mary in Hampton Bays, NY. He retired from the active ministry in 1998, and has offered his ministry 'to serve as needed' ever since. In September, 2005 Warren completed 5 years of service as an associate and then Priest-in-Charge at The Church of the Transfiguration ('The Little Church Around the Corner') in Manhattan. We are very fortunate to have Warren and Mary among us: please welcome them!
The Rev. Jacob Smith
The Reverend Jacob Smith was born on a Navajo Reservation and was raised in Yuma, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in History, emphasizing in Near Eastern Studies. Jacob was married August 4, 2001 to Melina, whom he met at the University of Arizona. He received his Master of Divinity from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in May of 2006. Jacob was ordained to the deaconate on June 3, 2006 in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, and is scheduled to be ordained a presbyter at the end of 2006.
Jacob grew up in the Episcopal Church. At the University of Arizona, he was active in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and served as a youth minister at St. Michael and all angels’ Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona. After completing his B.A., Jacob served as the director of youth ministries at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Yuma, Arizona. He served for three years at St. Paul’s and during that time his call to the ordained ministry was encouraged and confirmed. In the fall of 2003, Jacob began his studies at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry where he studied church development, church growth, and theology. While at Trinity he helped start an organization called the Green House Forum, which provided students with the opportunity to hear and learn from church planters around country.
Jacob and his wife Melina are both avid travelers, they especially enjoy Mexico and Northern Ireland. Jacob loves history, unusual cuisine, and reality television. He also has a passion for theology, especially issues of Law and Gospel and the doctrine of Justification by Grace, through Faith, in Christ alone.