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The Reverend James Stockton (affectionately known as Fr. Jim) came to ECR in 2001. He, his wife Lee Elena, and their three daughters Valerie, Emily, and Melanie arrived with our All Saints Sunday celebration. Fr. Jim attended a Lutheran elementary school and credits his early education in a Christian environment as formative of his faith in God. It was there and then that he began to sense a vocation from God to Holy Orders.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Jim worked variously as a self-defense instructor (earning a black belt in Chinese Kenpo), as a carpenter building custom homes, then as a laborer and/or department supervisor at a variety of manufacturing companies. It was at a local congregation that he was blessed to meet Lee Elena Mathis, his wife-to-be. Together they headed off to Abilene, Texas were Jim attended Abilene Christian University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Studies with an emphasis in biblical Greek. Upon graduation, they moved to Boston, Massachusetts where Lee Elena resumed graduate work in Nursing Education at the University of Massachusetts and Jim earned a Master's of Divinity degree at Harvard University. Shortly thereafter, Jim and his family moved here to Austin, where Jim attended the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest for a year in preparations for Holy Orders. In 1999 Jim was ordained a deacon in the Church; and in August of 2000, he was made a priest. Fr. Jim served as Assistant Rector at St. Stephen’s, Houston for two years.                                                                   

Fr. Jim came to ECR at the end of October 2001, and held his first Sunday services here on All Saints Sunday of that year. ECR has grown in its diversity over the years of his ministry here.  He has helped ECR to respond to God’s call and this people’s desire to be more deeply involved in the needs and fellowship of the wider community around us. A member of Integrity, Fr. Jim serves as Chair of the Advocacy Committee for the local chapter, with whom also several of ECR’s members serve.  Fr. Jim continues to be excited with the energy and movement of the Spirit of God here at ECR. “Working, praying, worshiping, the people of Resurrection, together with the Spirit of the resurrected Christ Jesus, our ministry and mission are accomplishing much that gives witness to the Love of God for all. Christ is lively and present with us in the sacraments of the Church and in the sacrament of God’s people forming this community. Within us and through us, Christ Jesus is moving into the world around us.”                                          

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