The Rev. Dr. Paul Moore, Rector, was born to missionary parents serving in Ecuador. He served for ten years with Wycliffe Bible Translators as a cross-cultural trainer and community development specialist in several locations in the U.S. and in Ecuador. He was ordained in the Diocese of Central Ecuador and has served churches in deep south Texas, central Texas, and southwestern New Mexico. He holds a Masters in Intercultural Administration, a Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation, and a Doctor of Ministry in Christian.

Fr. Paul, as he prefers to be known, builds bridges between God and people, peoples and peoples, and people and the rest of creation. He believes that the Church should be a place where people are lovingly invited into deeper relationships with God, themselves, one another and all created things so that the people of God can invite the world into that same transforming love.

Fr. Paul is married to Karisse, a Special Education teacher. The couple has three grown sons, three precious daughters-in-law, and three absolutely amazing grandchildren. He is an avid outdoorsman and plays the guitar.

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The Rev. Dennis Taylor R.N., Deacon, was born and reared in the Mississippi River drainage. Born in the shadow of Seabury Seminary in Illinois, and baptized into the Episcopal Church at the age of eight months in Kansas. Confirmed in the North Suburbs of Chicago, at the age of ten, they needed acolytes.

After graduating high school in the South Suburbs of Chicago, and two years of college, the draft loomed, so enlisted in the Navy and served four and a half years as a corpsman. During that time, as He was being transferred from the East Coast to the West Coast. He met Mary Ann and they were married six months later.

After being discharged from the Navy, Dennis began a 40-year career in health care at Skagit Valley Hospital, completing requirements for a nursing license at Skagit Valley College along with a paramedic certification eventually specializing in emergency, hospice and palliative care and eventually faith community (parish nursing) nursing.

The Rev. Vicki Johnson, Deacon, is a cradle Episcopalian who was born in Kansas but spent most of her childhood in Michigan. She graduated with a BS degree in Education from Central Michigan University, with a major in Special Education. She taught for a number of years with the Head Start program and with the junior high Special Education program, before joining the US Navy. Vicki served for six years in the Navy where she received training as an Electronics Technician, working on air navigation equipment for the Navy and Marine Corp.

Vicki was ordained a Vocational Deacon in October of 2014. She served as the deacon in Richland, Washington for seven years as their Pastoral Care Coordinator, overseeing 10 different Pastoral Care programs. While in the Diocese of Spokane she served on the Diocesan Council, Commission on Ministry, Safeguarding Committee, the Bishop’s Search Committee and as a delegate to General Convention.

Vicki and her husband (Allen) moved to Anacortes, Washington in the fall of 2021. She is presently serving as a vocational deacon between Christ Church in Anacortes and St. Paul’s in Mount Vernon.