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The Reverend Liz Tichenor
Rector
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Whitney Wilson
Associate for Formation and Ministry Development
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Jack Barben
Music Director
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Tracy Barber
Parish Administrator
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Shannon Eng
Youth Minister
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The Reverend Donald Schell
Assisting Clergy
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Brad Gough
Seminarian
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The Reverend Liz Tichenor

Rector
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The Reverend Liz Tichenor came to us from All Souls, Berkeley, where she served as the Associate Rector from 2014 to 2019. Her childhood was spread across northern New England, Iowa and Indiana. Liz returned to the Northeast for college, where she studied Spanish as an undergraduate at Dartmouth and later served there as the Episcopal campus minister. She received her Masters of Divinity at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and a Masters of Arts in Ethics and Social Theory at the Graduate Theological Union. After seminary, Liz served as the Resident Chaplain at Camp Galilee, on the Eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, and at Trinity Episcopal Church in Reno. Some of her passions in church leadership include collaboration in congregational development, building rich community through fellowship and good humor, flexing towards shared vulnerability, and wrestling with our sacred texts in preaching. Beyond work, Liz loves adventuring with her husband Jesse, their daughter Alice, their son Sam, and their puppy Mabel.

Liz is also the author of The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief. You can learn more about her work as an author at www.revliztichenor.com.

Whitney Wilson

Associate for Formation and Ministry Development
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Whitney Wilson has served as the Associate for Faith Formation and Ministry Development since March 2021 where she focuses on supporting faith formation for all ages and assisting all members, seasoned and brand new, to discern how God is calling them to serve and live out their baptismal vows. Whitney graduated from CDSP (the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, CA) in 2014 with a Masters of Theological Studies and an emphasis in Faith Formation. Whitney and her spouse Scott live in Walnut Creek with their dog Lucy and are occasional empty-nesters when their three adult children Andrew, Ben, and Katie are away.

Jack Barben

Music Director

Jack began his musical journey with piano lessons at the age of 5. At age 10, he started playing trombone which became his primary instrument through high school and college. In high school, he won a national competition which awarded him a two year scholarship to attend music school. He studied music at Cedarville University, studying trombone, piano, and voice and at the Peabody Conservatory where he studied piano with Julian Martin. Jack has been working as a musician and music teacher for over 20 years. He has continued his musical education, studying styles including jazz, folk, pop, Hindustani classical voice, and West African drumming. An avid educator, he created and ran the Island Beat Summer Music Camp for three years, a children’s music summer camp inspired by Victor Wooten’s Music Nature Camps and the Creative Kids Music Project in Renton, WA.

Tracy Barber

Parish Administrator
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I joined Church of the Resurrection staff as the church secretary in 2007. It’s been a gift and wonderful experience to work with such devoted and amazing clergy and staff. My favorite part of my job is getting to know the truly caring and giving people of this congregation that make Church of the Resurrection such a welcoming place for all.

Shannon Eng

Youth Minister

Shannon helps with our youth group on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. Shannon comes to us with a wealth of experience in youth ministry. She will usually be with us on the Sunday mornings she is working with the youth group, so we hope all of you will get a chance to say hello and introduce yourself.


The Reverend Donald Schell

Assisting Clergy

Donald has served Resurrection as an assisting priest since November of 2021, serving at the 10:15 service most regularly (many Sundays he’s also helped out at the early Sunday intergenerational liturgy at St. Gregory’s, San Francisco).

Donald is passionate about liturgy and congregational song, both central to his work over fifty years of ministry — at Episcopal Church at Yale, St. David’s, Caldwell Idaho, Saint Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco (where he was co-founder with Rick Fabian), and with Music that Makes Community.
Donald and his wife, Ellen, have two children in California, one in Maryland, and one in Scotland, and four grandchildren.
For the past forty years Donald has been practicing Aikido (a martial art practice of reconciliation and peacemaking), and for the past eight years, he’s also been a delighted student of cello. And for the past four or so years Ellen and Donald have been a practicing-together and not-performing cello and piano duo.

Brad Gough

Seminarian

Brad, his wife Maggie, and their 3 children: Ainsley (11), Everly (8), and Crosley (5) moved to Berkeley from the Cincinnati, OH area in 2021. Brad is currently a seminarian at Church Divinity School of the Pacific pursuing ordination in the Episcopal Church. He expects to graduate in the Summer of 2024, and plans on serving at Church of the Resurrection until then.


Vestry

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Church members and clergy together govern an Episcopal Church through a governing board called a Vestry. The Vestry consists of church members, elected at the annual meeting of the church, and the Rector. The Vestry is the legal governing and decision making body of the church who sets vision and direction for the congregation, approves the parish budget, makes parish policy decisions, and spends the parish's money. When the Rector leaves the Church it is the Vestry who calls the new Rector. The Vestry meets on the Second Wednesday evening of each month. Vestry meetings are open to all church members to attend.

Amanda Szakats – Senior Warden
Lori Vella - Junior Warden
Lindsay Firth - Clerk of the Vestry
Myron Backhaus
Chuck Bartell
Russ Bratburd
Lita Gloor-Little
Sheila Hassell Hughes
Lisa Moore
Davida Pugh
Brooke Taylor
Jenelle Towle

Deanery Delegates

The Diocese of California is organized into six deaneries (a neighboring group of congregations). Church of the Resurrection belongs to Contra Costa Deanery.

The Contra Costa Deanery meets four times a year: March, June, September, and November. Both lay and clergy delegates attend the Diocesan Convention at Grace Cathedral in October.

Our Lay Deanery Delegates are elected by the members of the parish at the Annual Meeting and each serves a two-year term: first year as an alternate and second year as a delegate.

Our 2022 Lay Deanery Delegates are:
Lita Gloor-Little
Emma Jones
Dian Matthews
Phil Matthews

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