Clergy & Support Staff

(You can meet some of our clergy and staff on our close-up page.)

The Reverend Dr. Valerie Valle
Rector
The Reverend Sandra Barnard
Associate, Mission and Education
The Reverend Jeremy Bond
Retired Priest
Chris Bowman
Minister of Music
Sandy Matson
Parish Administrator
Shelley Boehning
Pledge Secretary
Kim MacMillan
Chimes Newsletter Editor
Brian Petersen
Treasurer
Twila Erlewine
Thrift Shop General Manager
Sherry Loomis
webMaster

Vestry

Vestry meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:00pm in the Library / Conference Room. Members of the congregation are invited to attend.
Mike Britton
Rosemary Cleaves
Meigs Ingham
Rev. Valerie
Pamela Jones
Sigrid Long
Ann Mathias
Marilyn Nelson
Fred Wolf
Lee Whipple

Altar Guild


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Alison Fesler
(Co-Directress)

Ann Mathias
(Co-Directress)
Janette Sofranco
Isabel Reeves
Peggy Barclay
Elizabeth Widdicombe
Charmaine Petersen
Sue Diggles
Lucille Shepherd
Jane Delgadillo
Leesa Gonzalez
Jerri Pence
Pam Pano
Judy Burdick
Stephanie Brazil
Gail Applegate
Joyce Koehn
Fred Wolf

Altar Servers

Through Acolyte Ministry, with coaching provided by Kevin Pence, the Acolytes of the parish are called upon to assist our worship.
Altar Servers: Adrienne Pano, Isabel Reeves, Carolyn Flynn, Laura Horsley

Wedding / Funeral Guild

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Liz Widdicombe - Wedding & Funeral Directress



People's Kitchen

Stacey Cox, Coodinator for Saint Barnabas
Our scheduled day to serve lunch is the first Saturday of each month.


We are a founding member of this multi-congregation progrm to provide the homeless, poor, and hungry of this area with a hot meal each day at 675 W. Grand Avenue in Grover Beach (behind the Shouts of Grace Church). Additional volunteers or observers are always welcome.
(Stacey can be reached via email at staycc@charter.net.)

5 Cities Christian Women

Emergency Food Service
Lucille Shepherd, Coordinator for Saint Barnabas
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Saint Barnabas works within this multi-congregation program to provide groceries and supplies for the needy of this area. More volunteer help is always appreciated.

Healing Order of Saint Luke

To foster healing through prayer in the church
The Reverend Sandra Barnard, Contact


The order meets the third Saturday of each month in Barnard home at 6pm.

Pastoral Concerns Program



To provide the means by which our parishioners render some tender loving care to each other in times of need. As part of this program, a group of parishioners stands ready to offer prayer for family and friends of parishioners. Carol Wilcock is the first link in the prayer chain.

Prison & Jail Ministry

Roger Barnard and George Hauser, Contacts
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To provide ministration to those imprisoned within our geographical region.

Worship Committee

Kevin Pence, Chairman


To review and coordinate the activities of services, music program, church decoration; altar and wedding guilds, servers and torchbearers, lectors, Lay Eucharistic Ministers, cup bearers, greeters and ushers; and those worship services we undertake with other churches.

United Thank Offering (UTO)



Saint Barnabas participates in this ministry of international outreach funding projects and programs meeting compelling human needs and/or expanding the mission and ministry of the church.
(More about UTO)

Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD)

Saint Barnabas has supported this program since its inception over 50 years ago as The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.

In addition to their immediate (and long term) response to major disasters worldwide, ERD provides emergency assistance to victims of local and regional disasters such as floods, fires, tornados and hurricanes.

Lesser known are their on-going activities worldwide. ERD has established a bundle of programs to address the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Their decades-long activities addressing primary health, food security, hunger, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other persistent problems have saved millions of lives, and improved the quality of life for tens of millions of people throughout the world. For more information, visit the ERD web site.


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