George had worked as an intentional interim ministry specialist since 1996 and is pleased to be taking his first incumbency since he was priest-in-charge of St. Barnabas, Tsuu T'ina Nation (located in Alberta) from 1992 to 1996.
He was ordained in 1986, after graduating from Emanuel & St. Chad College in Saskatoon.
George is on his fourth major career. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in history, he was a steelworker at Stelco, working in various departments ranging from Second Helper on the furnaces to quality control. In August of 1973, George married Helen, and shortly after they went to Northern Nigeria with CUSO. A career with the Solicitor General Department in Alberta followed, and when George and Helen left to go to theological college in Saskatoon in 1983, George was Community Corrections Administrator for the Lac La Biche district, while Helen was a reporter and feature writer for the Lac La Biche Post, a weekly newspaper.
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Helen and George job-shared in their first parish, an Anglican/United shared ministry in Manning in Northern Alberta.
George took training in intentional interim ministry with Roy Oswald of the Alban Institute, and has worked in 6 different parishes, as far away as Winnipeg, and prior to 2005, a Lutheran parish in San Francisco.
George and Helen have 5 adult children and 8 grandchildren.
In George's leisure time, he enjoys theatre, cinema, camping, hiking, fishing, cooking, winemaking, travel, and reading. |
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