Rev. Stephanie Yancy

I am the daughter of an Episcopal priest. Our family moved several times as I was growing up – from Nassau, Bahamas, my birthplace, to Dallas, TX; Evanston, IL; Annapolis, MD; and Brooklyn, NY. In all that moving the constants in my life were family and church. They remain the constants to this day.

I met my husband in college and we were married soon after graduation.

After a few more moves we settled in Annapolis where I was able to go back to St. Philip’s, the church where my father had served for a short while in the 1960’s. It was wonderful to be back with old friends, including my former Sunday School teachers.

Shortly after we moved to Annapolis I began working for what is now M&T Bank where I stayed for 20 years. At the same time I was involved in lots of ministries at St. Philip’s. Eventually I realized that the work I did in the church brought me more joy and satisfaction than the work I was doing full time. I believed that what I was feeling was a call to the priesthood. To test that call I entered the discernment process in the Diocese. With the approval of the bishops and the Commission on Ministry I entered General Theological Seminary in New York in 2003.

Upon graduation in 2006 I was ordained deacon and began working as assistant to the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Hagerstown. I was ordained to the priesthood in January 2007. When the rector of St. John’s, Fr. Scott Bellows, moved to St. David’s Church in August of 2008 St. John’s vestry asked me to be their interim rector.

My husband, Spike, and I look forward to getting to know you. He is the Coordinator of Institutional Reporting at Montgomery College in Rockville. We have two children, Joy and Joe, who both live in Atlanta. Joy and her husband, Armand, have a 10-month old son, Joshua, who we think is pretty special.