The Reverend Edmund Harris

Priest-in-Charge

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The Reverend Edmund Harris grew up in the Episcopal Church in Virginia, and felt called to the priesthood at a young age.

In high school, he traveled to Jerusalem to take part in the youth course at St. George’s College. Visiting places where Jesus had lived and died, and listening to the voices of the Palestinian Christian teenagers in the group opened his heart to the Gospel. In college at the University of Virginia, he returned to Jerusalem to take part in a gathering of young theologians, and spent two summers in southern Africa in communities affected by AIDS.

These experiences led him to apply to the M.Div. program at the University of Chicago Divinity School. As a ministry student there, he served as seminarian at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Oak Park, IL, his sponsoring parish. He also worked as a chaplain at a residential facility for homeless youth, and returned to South Africa.

After Chicago, he spent a year in the Episcopal Service Corps in Boston, and completed Anglican studies at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, where he received the E. William Muehl Prize in Preaching.

Following his ordination, Edmund was called as Assistant to the Rector at Church of the Epiphany in East Providence, RI, where he later served as Priest in Charge. He also served as Priest and Organizer of Church Beyond the Walls, the street church he helped to found in the Diocese of Rhode Island. 

Edmund shares his life with his spouse Michael, who teaches Christian Ethics at Seattle University, and their cat, Madeline. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, traveling, and hiking, and English change ringing. 

Terry W. Ketcham

Music Director

 

​Terry was born in Santa Monica, CA, and grew up in the little beach town of Playa del Rey. His first organist job was at the young age of twelve at Pacific Presbyterian Church where he and his sister alternated Sundays. When she went away to college he took over full time as well as playing a later service at Del Rey Baptist Church. Terry's musical education continued at UCLA where he completed a BA in Music with emphasis on Harpsichord and Conducting and advanced to candidacy for an MA in Historical Musicology. Terry found the Episcopal Church at the age of twenty when he was hired as Organist-Choirmaster at St. Martha’s Episcopal Parish, West Covina, and later at Holy Trinity Parish, Covina, CA.