The Rev. John Allen is the Priest-in-Charge of St. John's Episcopal Church.  In his own words, Fr. John is “extremely excited about coming to St. John's and joining this historic church and outstanding congregation.”

Fr. John is adamant about living our Baptismal promises by being a welcoming church to all.  He also believes strongly in carrying the Good News and Love of Jesus into the community by fostering strong and effective outreach programs.

Prior to joining St. John's in February 2010, Fr. John served as rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church ~ La Iglesia Episcopal de San Lucas in Vancouver, Washington for 5 years.  Before that, he served for a year as interim rector at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, CA.  Fr. John began his priestly ministry at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. A graduate of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in May 2002 with a Master’s in Divinity, Fr. John was ordained as a priest at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on December 7, 2002.

Fr. John and his wife Georgie have been married for 36 years.  They have twin sons, two daughters-in-law and four grandchildren, two boys and two girls.

Father John Allen's email: johnatstjohns@comcast.net

The Rev. Donald Maddux is the leader of St. John's Hispanic ministry. He retired two years ago after many years as the Rector of Saint David of Wales Church in Shelton. Father Maddux and his wife Carolyn continue to live in Shelton. Father Maddux is a native of Western Washington and a graduate of Oregon State University and The General Theological Seminary of New York City. After two years at Ascension Parish in Seattle, Father Don served for a similar period in The Church of England.

Father Don is the founder of Saint Matthew's Church in Castle Rock, Saint Nicholas Church in Tahuya, Saint Hugh's Church in Allyn and Saint Germain's in Hoodsport. He has been involved with Hispanic ministry since 1992 and is enjoying his part in the growing ministry of Saint John's. Father Don Maddux's email: padredon@hctc.com.

The Rev. June Johnson serves as our Assistant Priest.  Mother June is a healing and gracious presence at St. John's.  Since February, 2007, she has served in the ministries of Pastoral Care and Adult Faith Formation at St. John's.  Each week she facilitates a Wednesday morning Bible Study.  She also takes her turn at presiding and preaching at Sunday morning worship services and at the Wednesday morning 7:00 am celebration of the Holy Eucharist.

Mother June's responsibilities also include the Pastoral Care Ministry.  She regularly visits shut-ins with communion and directs the Eucharistic Visitor program.  Her other area of responsibility is Adult Formation.  She is the clergy representative on a committee whtich plans programs for the Sunday Adult Forums and other offerings throughout the year.

Prior to her ordination, Mother June had 25 years of experience in parish ministry as a layperson, including serving as a Eucharistic Minister, Eucharistic Visitor, Worship Leader, Pastoral Care ministry coordinator, Vestry, Senior Warden-in-charge and other parish leadership positions.  From 1980-1988, she was a board member for Daughters of the King, a religious order in the Episcopal Church.  She was called to serve as chaplain for the Diocesan Assembley of that organization.  Mother June also has assisted with Eucharistic training.  Besides many years of ministry as a layperson, Mother June brings 35 years of office administration and accounting.

Mother June graduated from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Californina, with a Masters in Divinity in May, 2007.  Her family includes her husband, David, two grown daughters and a cat named Sadie.  Mother June's email is junij@comcast.net.

The Ven. Gen Grewell, Archdeacon has been assigned to St. John's by Bishop Rickel to be the diaconal presence within the St. John's community.  Deacon Gen has other diocesan responsibilities as well.  It is her role to gather the deacons as community twice yearly.  She also travels the diocese with Bishop Rickel when he is making his pastoral visits.  Deacon Gen is also charged with finding ways to educate and help congregations understand the role of the vocational diaconate.  To do this she often is making visits on her own to congregations who either do not have a deacon or who have expressed an interest in having a deacon so that they can learn about who deacons are.  She is on the Diocesan staff. 

Gen was ordained in 2000 and is involved with such Outreach ministries as South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity - Faith Relations Committee, Interfaith Works and their current initiative to help end homelessness within Thurston County.  Over the past several years, she has been active with Cursillo and Kairos being a part of the clergy teams for these events.  Gen and her husband, Gary, have four children and eight grandchildren.  If you wish to contact Gen, her email addresses are ggrewell21@comcast.net or ggrewell@ecww.org.

Kary W. Hyre joined St. John's as organist and choir director in September 2006.

Kary studied piano with Irene Baltrusch of Seattle from age 9, and began organ study at age 14 with Wallace Seely, A.A.G.O. at Queen Anne Methodist Church through 1959. He took degrees in both sociology (1965) and organ (1964) from Whitman College in Walla Walla, where he studied with Stanley Plummer. After graduation Kary moved to Madison Wisconsin, where he finished his M.S. in Sociology and studied with Prof. John Wright Harvey, after which he took coaching from Larry Kelliher from 1972 through 1986. He has also taken Master's classes from Wilma Jensen, Anton Heiller and Fred Swan, and studied improvisation with Paul Manz, Gerre Hancock, and McNiel Robinson.

Kary has served as organist since age 18 beginning at Haller Lake Methodist Church, Seattle and First Presbyterian Church, Walla Walla during his college years. In 1970 he was appointed Organist/Choirmaster with a 30 voice Youth Choir, 40 voice Adult Choir and Handbell ringers at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in Madison, Wisconsin until he moved back to Washington in 1988. Most recently he served in that capacity at the United Churches of Olympia since 1988. In addition Kary was house organist for the Madison Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. Kary's email is mailto:musicatstjohnsoly@comcast.net