Clergy
The Reverend Robert Burton is the Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He is highly experienced in parish ministry, having spent his professional career serving in parishes in California, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. For the past six years, he has served as rector of St. Luke's in Miami, Florida.
Bob and Anne love going to the movies and both are physical fitness enthusiasts. Among their many interests, they enjoy taking short adventure trips, sampling ethnic food and dancing.
Fr. Burton was born in Eugene, Oregon (Beaver fans, please note he has not yet declared his football allegiance) and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was an Episcopal priest. He graduated with a Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1974. Bob has two adult children: a daughter who recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and a son who is a professional magician living and working in Las Vegas.
Anne grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and majored in psychology at Loyola University in New Orleans. She has a passion for programs that place abandoned animals with low-income senior citizens, as well as pastoral care.
You may e-mail Fr. Bob at bbrtn@cs.com.
The Reverend Jim Young is the Associate Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Fr. Young is a native of Tennessee and a 1996 graduate of Yale Divinity School. He has served several parishes in Louisiana, Texas and California. Most recently Jim served as chaplain in a joint Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry at Stanford University.
Jim's primary responsibilities here at St. Paul's include oversight and hands-on involvement in the areas of Youth Ministry, Christian Education, and Newcomers. He also assists the Rector in worship, pastoral care, and administration.
Jim lives in Salem with his wife Niki, who grew up on the coast in Coos Bay, and is now employed as the Director of the Center of Teaching and Learning at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Niki has a Ph. D. in communication and enjoys teaching and working with the faculty. The Youngs have three children Andrew (10), Ben (9) and Chris (8). As a family, the Youngs enjoy science museums, the coast, and exploring.
You may e-mail Fr. Jim at fatherjimyoung@yahoo.com.
The Reverend Maureen-Elizabeth Hagen is our Director of Christian Formation (formerly known as Director of Children's Ministries).
Maureen grew up in upstate New York, spent 2 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and another year studying at the Sorbonne. While doing her doctoral studies in International Relations at Columbia (NYC), she met and married Rob Greene. Maureen taught undergraduates in Virginia and North Carolina. She and Rob moved to Oregon in 1992 where Rob now runs the Tribal Attorney’s Office in Grand Ronde. Maureen taught several courses at OSC and PCC, then worked for the US Probation and World Affairs Council. While attending All Saints Episcopal, Maureen and Rob became active in the parish, taking EFM, running a hot meals program and teaching Sunday School. While making their Cursillo in 1998, Maureen and Rob got to know Bob and Becky Muir. The Cursillo community was instrumental in encouraging Maureen to pursue Holy Orders.
For several years Maureen served as Director of Children’s Ministries at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Portland. She was ordained as a deacon in 2004. Her first assignment was Director of Outreach at Trinity Cathedral. While at Trinity, Maureen served at the monthly family service and initiated several K-12 and intergenerational outreach activities.
You may e-mail Maureen at maureenhagen@comcast.net.
