It is with great pleasure that the Wardens and Vestry of St. Paul’s announce the appointment of our Interim Priest, the Reverend Elizabeth (Libby) Wade, beginning on July 1, 2022.

St. Paul’s is very lucky to engage with Libby as we go through the transition of finding a new rector for St. Paul’s. She has extensive experience in Interim/Transitional Ministry. Shortly after moving from Kentucky, where she had served as priest in several congregations, Libby served as St. Paul’s Priest-in-Charge from January to July 2015. Since 2015, she has served as Interim in several other congregations of this diocese: St. John’s in Williamstown, Southwick Community Episcopal Church, and Grace Church in Great Barrington. She also brings a wealth of knowledge and experience gained prior to ordination as a college instructor, social work case manager, mental health crisis line coordinator, preschool director, children’s minister, and church musician.

As we go through this period of transition, we welcome Libby to walk this journey with us as we prepare for the next stage of our life together as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Truly we are blessed,

The Wardens and Vestry of St. Paul’s

The Rev. Jane G. Tillman became priest associate at St. Paul’s in April 2016.  A bivocational priest, Jane was ordained a priest at St. Paul’s in 2014.  After her ordination that served as a supply priest to several Episcopal congregations in Berkshire County.

Jane is a lifelong Episcopalian and native of North Carolina, and has lived in the Berkshires for twenty-two years.  Prior to ordination, as a layperson Jane taught high school Sunday school, served on the Vestry, was a lay reader, member of the altar guild, lay Eucharistic minister, and a member of the Cathedral Chapter.  She is interested in liturgy and in social justice issues and is a member of the Social Justice Committee for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.

A clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Jane is the Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.  She attended the University of the South and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  She then completed her M.Div. at Duke University in 1987.  After several years working as a flight paramedic on a helicopter, she completed her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.