The Rev. Nancy Yancey, Deacon and Director of Rainbow Village

Nancy was born in Atlanta, Ga and moved with her family to Gwinnett County in 1963. She married a native Atlantan, Jim. They have been married 32 years. Jim is a Financial Consultant. Nancy and Jim have three wonderful children, Brian, Stephen, and Maggie.

Nancy has been Executive Director of Rainbow Village, Inc. since 1993. Of her tenure, she says, "It has been a wonderful experience to be able to serve so many homeless families with children in the Gwinnett community and be a part of the exciting growth of Rainbow Village and Gwinnett County."

In 1998, Nancy was ordained in the Episcopal Church as a Deacon in the Diocese of Atlanta. She serves at Christ Church, her family’s church home since 1980.

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Rev. P.J. Woodall, Interim Rector

Christ Church is honored to have P.J. Woodall serve as our interim rector.  P.J. first graced our Church with his warm smile in January, 2007. 

P.J. grew up in North Carolina and attended college at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he obtained his bachelors degree.  For many years he worked in the field of hospital personnel administration.

As a seminarian, P.J. attended the University of the South School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee and acquired his Masters of Divinity in 1983. After his ordination, P.J. served for five years as rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Clinton, North Carolina, where he was active in community ministries, including the Migrant Farm Worker Ministry.   P.J. then served as rector for ten years at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Natick, Massachusetts, a diverse integrated parish with domestic and overseas outreach programs.  At St. Paul’s, his work with sister missions in Haiti inspired P.J. to become a Missionary Priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti. He spent five years working with schools and clinics in Haiti, ministering to adults and children in a land of relentless poverty.
           

P.J. returned to the United States and worked for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, using his skills to organize and mobilize diocesan resources for overseas missions. He has since served as an interim rector in Georgia, at St. Dunstan’s in Atlanta, St. Gregory the Great in Athens, and Nativity in Fayetteville.
           

He has been married for over thirty years to his wife, Loraine, with whom he has two daughters. P.J. enjoys walking and reading.

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Rev. Jeff Cave, Hispanic congregation priest

Jeff has served as the priest for our Hispanic congregation since the fall of 2007.  Jeff is a California native with a distinguished and long history of service to the church.  He attended Harvard and completed his studies at the General Theological Seminary in New York City.  He has served as a parish priest;  as Curate at the Church of the Epiphany in Manhattan; and was elected Canon of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.  Jeff has also served as Dean of the College Chapel at Mount Holyoke.

Jeff came to Georgia in 1992 and has served as the vicar of two parishes in the Macon area.  He later worked in Kansas City as a long term interim priest at St. Mary's, where he began a bi-lingual approach to services.  Jeff officially retired in 2005, but has continued to serve as an interim rector and currently, as the minister for Christ Church's Hispanic congregation.

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