Bishop Eric Menees Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin

Elizabeth Conkle is a lay pastoral catechist and Canon for Catechetical Formation for the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, where she serves as the director of the Anglican Catechist Training School (ACTS), a diocesan school that trains lay catechists and lay pastors. Her passion is to see people develop, grow and mature in order to become all who God made them to be as well as discover His incredible love for them. Up until her retirement in 2019, she also taught middle school language development and science and was an English learner coach for Fresno Unified School District where she trained and coached secondary teachers to integrate language instruction into their content. She has a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics from Fresno State University, a Masters in applied linguistics from the University of Southern California and an M.Div. from the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary. She is an active member of Emmanuel Anglican Church in Fresno, California. 

Father Anthony Velez is a husband, a father of four, a grandfather of one, and a friend to many. He has been an educator throughout his adult life in various capacities and contexts, where he enjoyed helping people grow academically, personally, and spiritually. Currently, he is the associate priest for formation at Emmanuel Anglican Church, and he helps provide oversight and instruction for ACTS. His passion and purpose is getting people engaged in spiritual practices and educational endeavors that shape people's hearts, imaginations, and character with the reality of the Gospel.

 Kevin West is a licensed catechist for the Anglican Diocese of the San Joaquin and member of Emmanuel Anglican Church in Fresno, CA.  He received his B.A. in Theology from The King’s University (Van Nuys, CA) and during his studies selected classes with an emphasis on Historical Theology and Early Church History.  Kevin is a former associate pastor and was the administrator of the Central Valley School of Ministry prior to joining the Anglican Church of North America, where he had many opportunities to preach and lecture.  Kevin loves to study and teach about Church history. Kevin currently works at Minarets High School as the registrar. His hobbies are hunting, fishing, observing wildlife (he loves animals) and anything that gets him into nature.  Kevin is married to Kayla, a high school teacher. They live in Clovis, CA with their golden retriever. 

Harlan has been a member of Emmanuel Anglican Church since 2014. Besides serving as an instructor for the Anglican Catechist Training School, he is a Lay Pastoral Catechist and has serve our bishop in doing supply work for congregations who currently do not have clergy. Prior to becoming Anglican, his church affiliation included Mennonite Brethren, Baptist, Nazarene, Foursquare, and Vineyard.

 Harlan works as a consulting forester and certified arborist for Mountain Engineering. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Forestry at Humboldt State University and worked for the California Region of the U.S. Forest Service from 1986 until 1993.  
 

From 1994 until 2002, Harlan and his wife served as missionaries for Wycliffe Bible Translators.  This term included a three-year field assignment in Indonesia involving conducting language surveys in the Province of Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. His academic training during this period included earning a Linguistics Certificate at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an Indonesian Language Certificate at the University of Indonesia, and an Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (with an  

My name is Jenelle Lemons and I am a priest's wife and a mother of three teens. I love the God of the Bible, known most fully to us in Jesus Christ, delight in his word, and am passionate about teaching the next generation how to read and interpret the Bible with integrity and wonder. To that end, I am currently an adjunct instructor in New Testament studies at Bethel Seminary MN and sit on the ACNA West Board of Examining Chaplains. I also have a heart for youth ministry and lead our church's children's discipleship program. I also am drawn to music and the arts and am blessed to lead our church in musical worship. My family and I enjoy hiking, kayaking, and rock climbing here in the Eastern Sierra and definitely enjoy visitors!

Fr. Lawson is a native of Lemoore, California. He was ordained a deacon on August 6, 2013 and a priest on August 20, 2014 in the Anglican Church by the Right Reverend Eric V. Menees, Vth Bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin. 

He has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, a Teaching Credential in Secondary Social Science from Fresno Pacific University, and a Bachelor of Social Science degree from Fresno Pacific University. 

Fr. Lawson is the rector of Emmanuel Anglican Church in Fresno, California. Previous to this assignment, he served concurrently as a rector to two parishes: St. Alban’s in Los Banos and St. Augustine’s in Hollister. Before returning to California in 2015, Fr. Noah served as the Director of Institutional Advancement for Nashotah House Theological Seminary and as an associate priest for Saint Michael’s Anglican Church in Nashotah, WI and Saints Simeon & Anna Anglican Church in Walworth, WI. Before entering the ordained ministry he worked in campaign and electoral politics. Fr. Lawson enjoys going to the movies, playing guitar, and making stained glass windows. 

 Deacon Erin Giles was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University in 1997 and served for one year with the Lutheran Volunteer Corp at the Howard Community Center in Chicago.

She met her husband, now Fr. Howard Giles, on the first day of orientation at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in Berkeley, California. Deacon Erin graduated with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Christian Ethics. She was ordained to the Diaconate in 2003.

In 2009, Fr. Howard and Deacon Erin were called to Henderson, NV to plant Jesus the Good Shepherd Anglican Church, where she serves as a Deacon for the parish. Since the fall of 2021 she has also served as an instructor for the Good Shepherd School Project Homeschool Atrium. Deacon Erin has been blessed to act as a mentor for the ACTS students from Jesus the Good Shepherd (4 students total in 4 years) and is also a member of the Board of Examining Chaplains for the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin in the area of Moral Theology & Ethics. 

Outside of the ADSJ, Deacon Erin is the Common Canonical Exam Coordinator for the ACNA West Board of Examining Chaplains, working to ensure that the future clergy of the 5 ACNA West dioceses are shepherds after the Lord's own heart, able to shepherd the people with knowledge (Jeremiah 3:15). 

Deacon Erin home-schools their six children, and is passionate about Spiritual Motherhood and Discipleship and fellowship with other clergy in the Diocese of San Joaquin.
 

  Fr. Howard is a Southern Nevada native. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in
English and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, both from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Fr. Howard and Deacon Erin met at the Church Divinity School of the
Pacific (CDSP), where Howard earned a Master of Divinity. They were
married in 2003 and have six wonderful children!
Fr. Howard was ordained to the priesthood in 2005 and left the Episcopal
Church, where he was ordained, with the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin in
2007, to uphold marriage between a man and a woman, the authority of
Scripture and the sanctity of all human life.
Fr. Howard is passionate about the Sacraments and about describing
Anglicanism, not as a denomination, but as one of the three branches of
the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church."

Fr. Carlos was ordained to the priesthood almost 40 years ago. He is a graduate of Trinity College in Toronto, Canada with a Master of Divinity degree and a particular focus on Patrisitics (study of the Early Church Fathers).  He has served first as Dean and then Rector of St. James for over 20 years until passing the torch to Fr. Noah Lawson in the early Summer of 2022.  Together with Fr. Noah, he has helped the congregations of St. James and of Our Lady of Guadalupe to become one congregation with English and Spanish services and with a new name: Emmanuel Anglican Church, Fresno.  Though retired, Fr. Carlos continues in active ministry especially in writing, counseling, inner healing prayer, deliverance and spiritual direction.  He is now the Rector Emeritus at Emmanuel Church, Fresno.  Fr. Carlos has been married to Carol Gregory Raines since 1983 and has three grown children, Nicholas, Christina and John who all live in California.  Carol has her own ministry of leading worship and discipling young women in the church and community. 

As a longtime member of St. John’s Anglican Church in Petaluma, Delmas has a desire to help fellow congregants learn the basic doctrines of the Christian faith. The ACTS program helped to formulate his own understanding at a deeper level and equipped him to instruct others in the Anglican Catechism.  As a licensed Lay Reader and Catechist in the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, he officiates online Morning and Evening Prayer, teaches weekly catechism classes, co-facilitate Bible studies, and perform the duties of a Lay Reader when needed on Sundays. He has two grown sons and lives with my wife, Anne, in Sonoma County.they need to achieve optimal well-being.

Marilyn Dach is a newcomer to Anglicanism. Her past church affiliation was in the Pentecostal and Evangelical traditions. She is a graduate of ACTS and is a healing prayer minister and a lay reader at Emmanuel Anglican Church in Fresno. She considers herself to be in recovery from codependency and desires to see the recovery ministry flourish at her parish. Recently, she has taught a class on relational boundaries for Emmanuel’s adult forum. Marilyn is an artist and is currently involved in the arts ministry at Emmanuel as a printmaker and an oil painter. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Biology from California State University, Fresno and is retired high school science teacher.

Sharon Matson has been a member of Emmanuel (Saint James) since she joined with her husband Dale in 2006. Father Dale was ordained as a deacon in 2008 and a priest in 2010 He served Emmanuel until his death in October 2022. Sharon has served on the alter guild, alter flower arranger, coffee hour hostess, singer in Eagles wings, member of Widows in Christ and Clergy Wives and organizer of the last two pictorial directories. She has 2 sons, 2 stepsons, 5 grandsons and 2 step grandsons.