Greetings from the Senior Warden, Maryla Salt.
It is my great pleasure to announce we have called our next Rector for St. Francis’ Episcopal, The Rev. Eric Metoyer. Father Eric brings rich and diverse qualifications from his experience at several Bay Area parishes and his positions at the Diocese of California.
Father Eric hails from New England, raised in northeastern Vermont and southern New Hampshire. He finished school at Lyndon Institute in Vermont and is a graduate of Williams College, Massachusetts, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley. He relocated to San Francisco following the ’89 earthquake for marriage and work. He was employed in corporate treasury positions for many years before discerning his call to priesthood. Father Eric serves on several non-profit and educational boards, enjoys spending time with his family, reading histories, and riding passenger trains around the country. He also holds football season tickets to the University of California, sitting on the shady side of Memorial Stadium.
Father Eric writes, “I am overjoyed at the call to be your rector of St Francis’ Church. I look forward to meeting everyone in every format; by telephone, by web conference, and in person, God Willing. I am grateful to the Search Committee for their hard work, pivoting their schedule from in person meetings to zoom conference calls. I am deeply grateful to the wardens, Maryla and Ed, and the Vestry, for their patience organizing the several more zoom conference calls we had, the walk around the church, discerning the work of the Holy Spirit over the static of the internet. There is a Sweet, Sweet, Spirit in this place, may our blessed, holy work continue together. Thanks be to God!”
Please welcome Father Eric with a warm St. Francis’ welcome. He will be joining us on August 15.
