Sunday Worship
8:00 and 10:15 a.m.
Office Hours
Noon - 3:00p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
2320 Grubb Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19810
Welcome to the Episcopal Church
Vestry
Class of 2010
Gen Van-Catledge
Lynn Royal
Class of 2011
Chris Frick
Michael Louie
Doreen Turner - Jr. Warden
Class of 2012
Jane Harvey – Sr. Warden
Mike Short – Treasurer
Deana Cook
Marcia Wight
Clergy and Staff
Brad Hinton - Rector
Brad was born in Mobile, Alabama and grew up near Robertsdale – a small town in coastal Baldwin County. He went to undergraduate school at The University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL, graduating with a B.S. from the College of Education. He taught in a public school for a few years before going on to work at a psychiatric and substance abuse hospital in Birmingham AL as a counselor, chaplain, and member of the administrative team. In addition, he was a contracted consultant on domestic violence issues to the City of Birmingham.
Brad’s life in the church has been rich and varied. Before ordination he served as a Jr. and Sr. Warden, chaired stewardship programs, taught confirmation classes and loved singing in the choir. He has been a college chaplain, founded a residence for Episcopalian students at the University of Montevallo (Canterbury House), participated in multiple mission trips to Honduras and has served on diocesan commissions in the dioceses of Alabama, Central Gulf Coast, New York and Delaware.
Brad received his Masters in Divinity at The General Theological Seminary in New York City in 2000. While there, he worked as an assistant to the Bishop of New York and spent two years as a seminarian at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan – which operates a soup kitchen that feeds hundreds of homeless people every weekday.
After ordination he served as Rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Fayette, Alabama, and Associate Rector of Trinity Parish in Wilmington, Delaware before accepting the call to be the Rector of St. David’s.
The
Rev. James D. Von Dreele, Priest
Associate
Fr. Von Dreele's principal ministry is at the Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) where he has served as Executive Director since December, 1996 after serving 25 years as a parish priest. At SCI he oversees a mission to the international seafarers who come into the Ports of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This 165-year-old, ecumenically-based mission provides vital human services to over 65,000 seafarers each year, helping them with transportation and communication services as well as attending to their emotional, spiritual and physical needs. Serving one of the largest ports in the U.S. (100 miles of the Delaware River), SCI's chaplains and ship visitors board over 1,900 ships at 28 terminals each year. Of this work Fr. Von Dreele says,"It is all too easy for us to take for granted what the Maritime Industry and the seafarers do for our lives. Over 95% of all the goods we consume travel by ship. Without the labors of the seafarers our lives would be greatly diminished. SCI cares for their very real human needs. But SCI also works closely with the Maritime Business Community as well. This is an wonderful example of industry wanting the church to be a part of its life and work." Since 1996, Fr. Von Dreele has been a member of St. David's, his childhood parish. His parents, Carl and Helen, helped start St. David's as a mission congregation at the request of the bishop in the early 1950's. So now he is
home.
Click
here to visit the Seamen's Church Institute
website.
NOTE:
Jim is also presently serving
as vice-president of the North American Maritime
Ministry. Click
here to visit their website.
Janet
Leishman, Director, St. David's Episcopal Day School
Janet became the Director of St. David's Episcopal Day School in 2001. With almost twenty years' experience, she has been Director of the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center's facility at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC; Director of the children's programs of Eastern Shore Chapel (Episcopal) in Virginia Beach, VA; and the Associate Director of Technology Children's Center, at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
Janet has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI) and a Master of Education Degree in School Counseling from The Citadel (Charleston, SC), as well as additional courses in Early Childhood Education. She is certified to administer the Gesell Developmental Screening tool, trained as a facilitator for STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting) and as a trainer for the Episcopal Safe Church Program (both adult and child).
In 2003 and again in 2006 Janet was named to the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Episcopal Schools Association.
"The foundation that a high-quality early childhood experience provides to a child is basic to his/her future success, both academically and socially. I am very fortunate to be a part of such a program at St. David's Episcopal Day School - where the whole child, and indeed the whole family is nurtured and encouraged to grow - socially, spiritually, physically, emotionally and congnitively!"
Kim
Stanley, Parish Administrator
Kim Stanley started as our Parish Administrator on Nov. 4, 2002. She came to us from
Cincinnati, Ohio where she recently served
as Church Secretary at Lakeview United Church
of Christ in Maineville, Ohio. She previously
worked as Christian Education Director at St.
John's Evangelical United Church of Christ
in St. Louis for three years and as Parish
Secretary at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis,
Tennessee for two years. She received her Bachelor
of Science degree in Organization Leadership
and Supervision from Purdue University in 1985.
Steven
W. Weatherman, Director of Music
Steven has studied Church Music at Waldorf Lutheran College in Forest
City, Iowa and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He
has studied conducting with Drs. James Jordan, Allen Crowell and Joseph
Flummerfelt. As a member of Westminster Choir and the Bridge Ensemble
from Philadelphia, Steven has toured throughout the U.S. and performed
for seven years at the Spoleto Festival, USA and Il Festival dei Due Mondi
in Spoleto, Italy. He has performed as a professional chorister with the
Opera Company of Philadelphia. He has also performed under the batons
of such great conductors as Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur, Spiros Agiris and
Wolfgang Swalisch. A trained vocalist, accomplished keyboardist and composer,
Steven works to enliven the spiritual life in worship at St. David's.
Together with the Chancel and Canterbury Choirs, at St. David's we blend
classic and contemporary styles together to reflect the depth of tradition
and vibrancy of spirit in our worship. Choir members minister not only
to the congregation, but to each other, forming a group that shares in
each others' joys and sorrows. We are always looking for new people
to join in the fellowship of this important ministry at St. David's.
Adult Choir's rehearse Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 p.m.; Children's
Choir (ages 7-13), Sundays, 11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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