Our rector Bill comes to us through an unanticipated pathway.  He is a servant leader nurtured and ordained in the Lutheran tradition and most recently served Faith Lutheran Church in East Hartford, CT.  The Spirit works in marvelous ways.

With the passage of the “Called to Common Mission” agreement by both the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Episcopalians and Lutherans entered into full communion and agreed that clergy ordained in one tradition could be called and serve as fully authorized rectors and pastors in the other tradition.  Bishop Hazelwood of the New England Synod of the ELCA and Bishop Hirschfeld and Canon Hannah Anderson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire supported Bill’s candidacy to be Rector at All Saints.

Bill serves All Saints as leader and facilitator of our shared ministry in the Lakes Region as an active Episcopal parish.

Bill and his wife Kay have deep roots in New Hampshire.  The bulk of his professional career prior to entering the ministry was in New Hampshire.  Bill graduated from The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Seminary in 2010.   While at the Seminary, he received the Atonement Preaching Award, among other achievements.  His involvement and leadership in the church goes back to his youth.  His roles as a lay person included teaching confirmation, leading a capital campaign, being a member of a building committee, and serving as president of a church council (Lutheran version of the vestry).  He also served as Dean of the Greater Hartford Conference of the New England Synod. 

Bill’s first career was in the hospitality industry.  He worked in both food service and hotel management and then became an educator.  He taught at Southern New Hampshire University and was Dean of the School of Hospitality from 2001 to 2006.  While working in New Hampshire, Bill provided service in a number of volunteer capacities, including member of the Chamber of Commerce Regional Marketing Task Force and Tourism Committee, board member of the New Hampshire Philharmonic, chairperson of the State of New Hampshire Advisory Council on Travel and Tourism (a Governor and Executive Council appointment), and board member of the Southern New Hampshire Convention & Visitors Bureau. 

A co-founder of Granite State Ambassadors, Inc., Bill is currently Chair Emeritus.  This organization has been widely recognized for recruiting and training volunteers to provide information to guests who work, live and visit New Hampshire. Annually it welcomes more than 100,000 guests to NH via 20,000 hours of volunteer service.  In 2003, Bill was the recipient of the Yankee Magazine Barn Raiser Award for Community Service and Leadership for his leadership and service.