Pastor Teresa
The Rev. Teresa K. M. Danieley was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a graduate of Crossroads School (high school), Yale College (B.A., History), the University of Chicago (M.P.P.), and the General Theological Seminary (M.Div.) She has worked for Dwight Hall: the Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale, Interfaith Worker Justice, the Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni/ae Relations at General Theological Seminary, and St. James' Church.
Pastor Teresa is a life-long Episcopalian, from a family of Baptist missionaries. During the past twenty years, she has served the Episcopal Church on the diocesan, provincial, national levels. She currently serves as a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri's Diocesan Council (on leave 2011) and Commission on Ministry (on leave 2011), and a Trustee on the Episcopal Presbyterian Charitable Medical Health Trust. In civic life, Pastor Teresa is the Faith Committee Co-Chair for St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice and the President of Faith Aloud's Missouri Policy Project. Pastor Teresa is an Associate of the Order of St. Helena.
Pastor Teresa was very pleased to return to St. Louis in June 2004 in order to accept the call to be the 21st rector of St. John's. She has served as pastor of St. John's for more than six wonderful years so far and she looks forward to many more years of fruitful ministry at St. John's.
Pastor Teresa and her husband, Jonathan, live with three cats and baby daughter, Lucy, in Tower Grove Heights. The Danieleys have started renovating a house on Wyoming Street. They also enjoy walking, biking, gardening, cooking, reading historical fiction and non-fiction, playing games and travelling.
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