WORSHIP SCHEDULE

Sundays 8:00 & 10:30 am
Wednesdays 5:30 pm

The Vestry

In cooperation with its priests, Calvary’s Vestry coordinates the activities of the church. Calvary’s organizations, committees and groups are assigned to one of six commissions: Worship, Parish Life, Community Life, Education, Communications, and Administration/Finance. Two or three Vestry members are responsible for each of the six commissions, convening the constituent organizations as needed to facilitate communication and mutual accountability.

Vestry Members

Kathy Alexander - Co-chair, Communication Commission

Kathy Alexander is a “cradle Episcopalian” and has attended Calvary for two and a half years after moving from Irving, Texas. This is Kathy’s first three-year term on Vestry. She works for CenturyTel and keeps pretty busy working. She enjoys visiting her two children and five grandchildren who live in Springfield, Missouri, and Ft. Worth, Texas. She also enjoys her work with the church through Loaves and Fishes, Bell Choir, and Daughters of the King, and as a Greeter and Eucharistic Minister.

Jason Aubrey - Co-chair, Communication Commission

Jason has been attending Calvary with family since fall 2004, and he’s been on the vestry since January 2007.  Jason and his wife Jennifer have two sons, Lucas and Elliot. He enjoys taking his kids swimming and he likes to lay on the couch and watch movies with his wife.

Tom Frankman - Senior Warden and Worship Commission

Except for a brief period when he lived in Fulton, Tom Frankman has attended Calvary since he moved to central Missouri in 1994. He has been a Eucharistic Minister since 2002 and a member of the Worship Committee since 2003. Kristina Detmer, his wife, has attended Calvary since coming to the University of Missouri as an undergraduate. She is a mentor in the parish’s EFM ministry and a Eucharistic Minister. Professionally, Tom is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at William Woods University.

Tobey Lee - Co-Chair, Parish Life Commission

Tobey Lee has enjoyed being a member of Calvary since she moved to Columbia in 2001. She was elected to the Vestry for a three year term in January 2007. Tobey is chairperson of the Newcomers Committee. Her husband Art is also a member of Calvary. Tobey works for a local chiropractor as a licensed massage therapist. Because of this, Art says that he is glad she isn’t an accountant. She also enjoys knitting sweaters for her two granddaughters.

Melissa Poole - Co-Chair, Education Commission

Melissa Poole is a cradle-born Episcopalian who has been attending Calvary since she came to MU as a student in the 1970s.  She is a member of the choir and serves as a lay Eucharistic minister.  She also has been a mentor in the Education for Ministry program for many years. She served as editor of the Salter in the 1980s, created Calvary’s first website in the 1990s, and has served on a number of parish committees, including communication, worship, education, and campus ministry.  She teaches English at Columbia College and works in the administration of the Online Campus, helping faculty design online courses. 

Trudie Fasel - Co-Chair, Outreach Commission

Trudie was elected to the vestry in January ’08. She is a life long Episcopalian and a member of Calvary Parish since the fall of 1970. Over the years her primary focus has been parish outreach having worked at Loaves and Fishes for over 15 years and presently working on the launch of Calvary’s Breakfast Café. The Funeral Ladies, Alter Guild and Newcomers Committee are other areas of interest at Calvary. Remembering how much her own adult children benefited from the church youth group she also has a special interest in supporting the youth ministry. At this time Trudie is enjoying the blessings of time- to walk the MKT Trail, linger at lunch and to visit family and friends.

Anne Sievers - Co-Chair, Communication Commission

Anne Sievers was elected to the vestry in 2009. She has been a member of Calvary since moving to Columbia in 1999. Anne works with the young children in Activity Hour as well as helping with other church activities as they arise when needed. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Anne was a swimmer most of her life and has now carried that over into her career at Wilson’s Fitness. Anne serves as the Aquatics Director for MAC Swimming. Anne and her husband, Shane, can be found in the back row on Sunday mornings with their two small children, Katherine and Luke. 

Jill Moseley - Co-Chair, Administration Commission

Jill Moseley was elected to the vestry in 2009. She has been a member of Calvary most of her life and grew up singing in the children’s choir and participating in EYF.  As an adult, she sings in the Cambridge choir and plays bells in the Agape handbell choir. She is a small animal veterinarian at Peach Tree Animal Hospital, which she co-owns with a partner.  She and her husband, John, were married at Calvary in 1996. They have a daughter named Hannah.

David Allen - Co-Chair, Parish Life Commission

After a thirty-year career in the federal government David Allen and his wife, Barbara Rothschild, retired to Texas, where Barbara was born, but after four years decided Texas was too hot, so in 2000 moved to Columbia, where David had lived for five years in his youth.  At Calvary David has served for nine years on the Newcomers’ Committee as the committee secretary and as a coffee hour host; he completed Education for Ministry (EFM), which he had begun in Texas, and served for several years as an EFM mentor; he was a lay delegate to the diocesan convention for three years, was a member of the search committee for the new rector, and recently joined the Building and Grounds Committee.  His service with the Vestry began in 2008. 

Howard Fulweiler - Co-chair, Education Commission

Howard Fulweiler joined Calvary Parish in the fall of 1960, after arriving in Columbia to become a professor of English literature at the University of Missouri, a calling he followed until retirement in 2000.  He is married to Sally, a member of the Altar Guild for many years and a past Directress.  They are the parents of four children who grew up at Calvary but no longer live in Columbia. Over the many years they have been here, Howard has served as lay reader, Eucharistic Minister, Chairman of the Board for Ecumenical Ministry to college students, and as Vestryman for four separate terms.  He has been Senior Warden twice (recently for a three-year term).  Over the years he has taught adult courses in such subjects as C.S. Lewis, religious poetry, and Church history.  Along with others in Calvary parish he has conducted services for over forty years at the Bluffs Retirement Center, formerly the Boone Retirement Center.