We Love God – through worship, sacraments, prayer, attention to the scriptures, and how we live.
At St. Christopher’s you’ll find a ready smile, a friend to welcome you, and someone to pray with you. The church is an inclusive and welcoming community, striving to follow God and share God’s love. There’s a place for you here at God’s table!
With the Love of God at our center, we work hard to create a community rooted in hospitality and fellowship. Caring for one another, caring for our neighbors, and showing up for those in need are all extensions of the Love of God in our lives.
We worship, pray, sing, preach, and serve God with all that we are. Our weekly worship is life-giving to all ages and grounds us in our tradition as Episcopalians.
We value opportunities for spiritual growth, knowing that following Jesus is a lifelong learning process. All of us, children, youth, and adults, are disciples.
As Jesus’ disciples, we seek lives of service, transforming not only our own lives but also those of our neighbors. We model this care for others on Jesus, who comes among us as one who serves.
We care for the gifts entrusted to us in our facilities, natural environment, and financial resources. Every person contributes talents and skills for the good of the whole, and for the good of generations yet to come.
The Reverend Alyssa Stebbing received her M. Div. from Seminary of the Southwest and was ordained into the Episcopal Church. She has spent thirty years serving in ministry around the world, working primarily with marginalized and disenfranchised people. She is currently the Episcoapl Migration Ministries liaison for the Diocese of Texas and previously served as an Anglican delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She loves music, painting, iconography, the smell of piñon burning, tacos, hiking, traveling, learning, teaching, and prayer. She and her husband, Colin, share seven children and their families who are spread across the globe.
The Reverend Vicki Knipp was raised in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City) and came to Texas to go to college. Upon graduation, she and her husband moved to McAllen, Texas, where she taught high school history, economics, and government for 18 years. Her economics background, led her to a new career as a Financial Advisor for 22 years, working with AG Edwards and Wells Fargo Advisors in McAllen. In 2000, she began participating in short-term missionary work in Honduras. She is blessed to have served there over 50 times. After her retirement, she moved to Austin to be closer to her 3 adult children and 2 granddaughters. She became very involved working with the homeless through Trinity Center and Casa Marianella. All of this (and a personal epiphany) led her to identify her call to the diaconate and its ministry of servanthood. She graduated from the Iona School for Ministry and was ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. She enjoys anything that lets her be outside, around people and not sitting still too long. She is very happy to be here with at St. Christopher’s as we share the love of Christ with each other, and those sisters and brothers beyond our walls.
Deacon Victoria Mason is joining our community after having retired from her ministry St. John’s Episcopal Church. She was assigned to St. John’s for 9 years after a three-year break from active ministry to take care of her mother. Before that she served at San Francisco de Asís and St. David’s. St. Christopher’s has been her family’s home church since 1990. Most of her ministry has focused on serving the Episcopal Hispanic community and on racial justice and reconciliation. Deacon Victoria is currently part of a team that is planning and promoting a Civil Rights Pilgrimage to be followed by a discernment process for a racial reconciliation initiative for the Austin area. She is married to Roy Larsen; they have two children, Matthew and Katherine. (Some of you may remember them) They also have three marvelous grandchildren.
Bio to come
