CLERGY ROTATION

 ECWK is serving as a "sabbatical site" in which a priest offers Sunday services at St. Paul's and St. John's, and emergency pastoral care in exchange for living in a furnished vicarage (which was recently refurbished), and having a vehicle to drive. This ministry began in January 2012. ECWK prefers that priests stay for at least two months.  For more information on serving short-term with ECWK, visit the Diocesan website HERE. 

The Rev. Bob & Kris Carver

The Rev. Bob Carver and his wife Kris will be ministering to ECWK for the first three Sundays of February 2021. The Carvers make their winter home on Kauai.

The Rev. Cn. Bruce & Thayer Woodcock

​Fr. Bruce and Thayer will be with ECWK from February 28 through March 28, 2021 (Palm Sunday).
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​The Rev. Canon Bruce W. Woodcock. Currently serves the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church as the Asia Pacific Partnership Offer in Global Partnerships at the Episcopal Church Center in NY. He has served 4 parishes in transition as a supply-plus clergy, now mentoring the Wardens and Vestry at Christ Church Sparkill NY. Fr. Bruce served as Vicar of St. Matthew’s Paramus from 2005-2015, and St. Mary’s-in Tuxedo as the Interim Pastor from January 2016 through Pentecost 2017. Since his ordination in the diocese of Southeast Florida (2003), Fr. Bruce served as a hospital and Seamen’s Church Institute chaplain and remains a member of the Board of Ethics for Clarkstown NY. He is an honorary Canon of Trinity Cathedral in Monrovia, Diocese of Liberia, West Africa (2008), and served in Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gambia with the Peace Corps and in Burkina Faso for Save the Children.

Married in London, England in 1984, Fr. Bruce, his wife Thayer, and their sons, James and Jonathan, have lived together in Nyack, NY where Thayer has been parish administrator at Grace Episcopal Church since 2000. Thayer previously worked as Assistant Director of Advertising and Public Relations at the New York Philharmonic and Program Editor for the Lincoln Center Festival.

Fr. Bruce has worked in over 50 countries around the world and maintains close contacts with Anglican Provincial partner church leaders in Brazil, Central America, Cuba, Korea, Mexico and the Philippines. His Chinese name, Wu Pei-Shih 吳培世, selected by the Bishop of the Diocese of Taiwan, generally means: ‘A person who loves the world.’ He currently is learning to practice Tai Chi and enjoys reading, hiking, and providing spiritual direction and pastoral care.