8/12/2023 0 Comments Salt and sanctuary leader![]() At Saint Mary’s I was involved in numerous ministries and was also junior warden. In 2005 we built a home in Bonita Springs Florida and started attending Saint Mary’s. My family moved to southwest Florida in 2000 and for the next 15 years I worked with my brother in construction material supply companies. My second daughter Callie was born nine months after I retired in 2001. While serving in the Army I met my wife Susan and my first daughter Haley was born in 1983. Retiring 21 years later as a First Sergeant, I had traveled all over the world and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Troy State College in Alabama. In 1979 I joined the Army as a Paratrooper and Pathfinder looking for college money and some travel. At the age of 5 my family moved to southern California. I was born in Portsmouth Virginia in 1959. The Lord then provided me with another opportunity to serve as Rector of a church I served there for three years before being called to ‘help out’ another church until they found a new Rector. However, after a few months in the Lancaster area, the Lord drew us to a small church where we were greatly needed. My husband and I then moved to Pennsylvania where we could live closer to family. Marys, I was invited to teach, celebrate Holy Eucharist and serve in a number of full time capacities for the next three years. Mary’s once when I was immediately drawn into the presence of the Lord through the beautiful Sunday liturgy. ![]() John’s, Naples until their new priest arrived. Mary’s Bonita Springs in 2006.Īt that time I was a certified Hospital Chaplain working at both Naples Community Hospital South and Naples Hospice, as well as serving at St. ![]() I was called to be a Priest Associate at St. His pastoral experience ranges from programs for the bereaved and terminally ill to years in college ministry he hopes to bring all that work to bear at St. Paramount in encountering the unchurched and churched alike is to speak truth with an absence of judgment,” he says. He is credited with growing those two diverse churches to their present state of health from previously precarious conditions.Ī graduate of Stetson University in Deland, FL, and The General Theological Seminary in New York City, Father Wright came to Christ as a young adult and uses his experience as an “unchurched” youth “to break through people’s preconceived notions of what it means to be part of the church. He is a native of Naples who has lived in Southwest Florida most of his life, most recently with responsibility for Church of the Epiphany in Cape Coral and St. ![]() Ryan Wright, Rector,, 23įather Wright, 44, is the youngest rector in the parish’s history. ![]()
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