The church building was officially dedicated on April 29, 1962, by Right Reverend James A. Pike, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California.
The church building was designed by the Ratcliff Architects, the oldest architectural firm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1949 and he received his master's degree from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 1952.
Shackell was among the California clergy who answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King to join in the Civil Rights march from Selma to Birmingham.
In 1982, the Smiths returned to the Bay Area, and Bruce became the assistant rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Orinda.
Bruce has served as the chair of the Department of Campus Ministry since 1994 and he recently completed a four-year term as a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of California.
Liz studied Spanish as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and later served there as the Episcopal campus minister.
Some of her passions in church leadership include collaboration in congregational development, building rich community through fellowship and good humor, flexing towards shared vulnerability, and wrestling with our sacred texts in preaching.