Timothy Tuller has served as Canon for Music (Organist and
Choir Director) of St. John’s Cathedral since January, 2007. Prior to coming to
St. John’s, Tim held positions at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham,
Alabama, and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Tim is a graduate of the
Cleveland Institute of Music and Ithaca College.
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Tim Tuller
Canon for Music
904-632-9104, ext. 120
Kathryn Bissette
Bookstore Manager
(904) 632-9104 ext. 152
Kathryn Bissette is a native of Tallahassee, and lived for 20 years in Atlanta during college, and when she worked in the securities industry as a bank stock analyst for several regional brokerage firms. She and her family moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2005 and have been members of the Cathedral for 15 years.
St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore & Gift Shop is a member of the Episcopal Booksellers Association (EBA), a national community of over 40 Episcopal church bookstores. Kathryn has served on the board of the Episcopal Booksellers Association (EBA) since 2015.
Paul Calewarts
Interim Facilities manager and Head Sexton
Paul brings a depth of knowledge and a breadth of experience to this role. He served as the Facilities Manager at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church for over a decade. He will be working half-time and will have four broad areas of focus:
- He will be the point of contact for vendors and contractors: scheduling work, overseeing repairs, and ensuring fair pricing.
- He will lead the sexton team, coordinating their efforts and ensuring our campus is continually welcoming to all parishioners and guests.
- Paul will maintain a preventative maintenance schedule and work with the Properties Committee to proactively address long-term facilities needs.
- As his skillset permits, Paul (the consummate “handyman”) will fix and make repairs.
Owene Courtney
Director of Formation and Spirituality
(904) 632-9104 ext. 151
Owene Courtney has been involved in Christian Formation and Spirituality for 40 years. She is an EfM graduate and has been an EfM mentor and taught youth confirmation for much of that time. As Director of Formation and Spirituality, she looks forward to guiding the people of St. John’s Cathedral in the process of formation and discernment of their gifts. As disciples of Christ, we are all called to love, pray, serve, worship, learn, give, work and join. To that end, formation and spirituality are about encouraging each other to practice those disciplines and holding each other accountable as we do.
Owene is married to Bill, a Cathedral member, and has three sons, daughters-in-law, and six grandchildren.
Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare
Hospitality and Communications Specialist
(904) 632-9104 ext. 118
Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare oversees the hospitality ministry at the Cathedral and assists in Communications with social media, live streaming and service bulletins. She loves her different positions and roles she has at the Cathedral. Liesl has grown up in the church and is honored to be able to serve and share God’s love.
Gloria Miller
Director of Program Development
Gloria Miller plays an important part in nurturing new Cathedral programs so as to ensure that they thrive by engaging those within our Cathedral and in the greater community. She helps grow the existing programs for our cathedral as well. She and her husband Tim, are members of St. John's. Gloria is also an integral part of the Family Promise program.
Michalyn Palmer
Director of the Celebration Singers
(904) 704-8505
The St. John's Celebration Choir is a volunteer choir that sings every other week at the 9 a.m. service and at special events. They rehearse every Thursday at 5:30 in the Choir Room. Contact Michalyn for more information.
Nancy Purcell
Director of Marketing and Communications
(904) 632-9104 ext. 117
Nancy Purcell works in collaboration with ministry leaders to develop communications strategy for various programs and events. Any type of content creation, curation, re-purposing, proofing or polishing is within her realm of happiness, especially when it pertains to promoting the good work going on at the Cathedral. In addition, Nancy manages the website and the live stream presentation of our Sunday morning services.
Pam Searcy
Director of Parish Engagement and Development
(904) 632-9104 ext. 106
In her role as Director of Parish Engagement and Development, Pam oversees the annual pledge campaign and other fundraising activities throughout the year. She works with the Stewardship and Development Council to organize and implement initiatives for gift planning and managing the endowment fund. Pam also oversees programs for newcomers and parish engagement.
As the liturgy assistant, Pam performs administrative and operational support functions for all worship services, online and socially distant, in-person.
Debbie Scroggins
Sexton
Debbie does a lot outside around the Cathedral and at the Diocese. She keeps our campus looking great from the outside, in.
Jennifer Meister
Assistant Conductor
(321) 331-6894
Jennifer rehearses the introit anthem at each Sunday morning rehearsal. She then directs the introit anthem from the baptismal font at the beginning of each 10 a.m. service. In the event the Canon for Music is absent, the assistant conductor conducts the offertory anthem and the communion motet in the choir stalls during Sunday morning services.
Rose Lindblad
Music Librarian
(904) 955-1485
The St. John’s Cathedral Music Library is comprised of over 1,000 works valued at over $125,000. We are so fortunate to have Rose Lindblad as the caretaker of this vast collection of music. As the Music Librarian Rose assists the Canon for Music by processing new music and by filing, distributing and managing an extensive library of sheet music and music books for the Cathedral Choir. This position also maintains the master list of music, keeping it current by adding new music to the list as needed.
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