Meet the Bishop's Committee
The Bishop's Committee members are listed below:
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Kay Rawlings Senior Warden (2020-2022)![]() |
Bob Kernaghan Junior Warden (2021-2023)![]() |
Dave Edwards (2021-2023)![]() |
Laurie James (2022-2024)![]() |
Bob Kernaghan (2021-2023)![]() |
Ada Kornmeyer (2022-24)![]() |
Ronnie Sue Leith (2022-2024) |
Steven Randolph (2020-22)![]() |
Paul Steinke (2022-2024) |
Dorothy Timma (2022-2024) |
Deb Hurd (Committee Clerk 2021-23)![]() |
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Here are the biographies of those running for the 2022 Bishop’s Committee (in alphabetical order): | |
Laurie James
Having moved to Poulsbo from Seattle in 1980, I spent my entire teaching career with the North Kitsap School District Special Education Program. My first twenty- five years were at North Kitsap High School and the remaining years at Kingston High School until my retirement in 2019. My husband, Gary, and I married in 1983 while he was involved in a “sister” Free Methodist Church in Ballard. We raised our three children in Poulsbo while primarily having NK Baptist as our church home. Gary and I began attending Faith Episcopal when we first became “empty nesters” about five years ago. We deeply appreciated the people at Faith, enjoyed the worship, as well as the opportunities for serving our community. Gary served most recently on the Bishop’s Committee, until his death in October of this year (2021). I am honored for the opportunity fulfill the remaining few months of Gary’s term. I am equally honored to be considered for a new term, as I am eager to follow the Lord’s leading in using my gifts to serve our community for Him. |
Ada Kornmeyer
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Ronnie Sue Leith I grew up in Whittier, California, and began my religious education in Sunday School in a Presbyterian church. After my freshman year in high school my family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, and I finished high school there. I attended college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a degree in Medical Microbiology. While in college I was a member of Pres House, a Presbyterian church run entirely by students. After graduation I returned to California to attend graduate school at Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology. I then made the switch to clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. My original plan was to specialize in Infectious Disease; but along the way I discovered that I would rather talk to people than do medical procedures, and I began to lean toward psychiatry. To be sure that I wasn’t making a mistake, I followed medical school with a one-year rotating internship at San Francisco General Hospital. At the end of that year I was sure that I wanted to be a psychiatrist. I did a three-year residency at UCSF and then went into private practice in San Mateo, California. I maintained my private practice for 38 years specializing in individual psychotherapy with adults. As a sideline, I also did some work in forensic psychiatry, evaluating plaintiffs in lawsuits involving workplace problems. I loved interacting with people and could have continued that life indefinitely; but eventually I decided that I wanted to retire while I was still young enough to pursue other interests. In the spring of 2018 I closed my practice and moved to Port Ludlow, where I now live with my two dogs. I couldn’t quite give up my professional identity, however, and for the past two years I have been working two days a week at the North Olympic Healthcare Network in Port Angeles. I have had a strong interest in training and showing dogs in competitive Obedience for most of my adult life, and I am currently an Obedience and Rally judge with the American Kennel Club. My other avocation has been music. I belonged to Saint Bede’s Episcopal Church in Menlo Park, California, and sang in the choir there for over 30 years, as well as serving one term on the vestry. I also sang in a semi-professional community group, Masterworks Chorale. I believe that God has been actively leading me through all the circuitous pathways of my life, and has now brought me to a new home at Faith Episcopal Church. I look forward to serving on the Bishop’s committee there. |
Paul Steinke
I'm from Nebraska, I live in Bremerton, and I've worked at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology for 20 years. But what I most want you to know is I long to know Life with my family. As Sarah, Pierce, Selah, Elle, and I have participated in the Episcopal way of life for over 10 years now, I have experienced something of a material world made transparent to the reality of a God who is seeking to draw all creation - including my family and my friends - to God's self. This is a dance is one in which I long to participate. I long to practice such a way of life, I long to know abundant life, I long to know Jesus Christ for my life, the life of my family, and the life of the world. |
Dorothy Timma
I work for a transportation company that has an office in Seattle, but our staff has been able to work remotely from home since the beginning of pandemic. (: I started attending Faith because my sister Ellen was involved with the choir and invited me to attend with her. The first time that I attended Faith, we were in Kingston. That was quite a few years ago but I saw many of the same kind and familiar faces when we came back to visit in Poulsbo. I would like to serve on the Bishop’s Committee because I Love the community of Faith Episcopal Church and I would like to experience the administrative process that has been a part of Faith’s continued success. The community at Faith fills a void in my life that I don’t think anything else could right now and I want to help bring in new people so that they can hopefully experience that too. |
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Here are the biographies of 2020-22 Bishop’s Committee: | |
Kay Rawlings:
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Dave Edwards
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Here are the biographies of 2019-21 Bishop’s Committee: | |
George Daniels: |
Diane Foster: |
Jean Hart: |
Gary James: |
Here are the Canidates for the 2018-20 Bishop’s Committee: | |
Deb Hurd | Brenda Toth |
Here are the Candidates for the 2017-19 Bishop’s Committee: | |
Louise Kernaghan | Annamarie Lavieri |
Kevin Mace | Fred Pomeranz |