Our Interim Priest, the Reverend Patricia Eustis, is a 1998 Masters of Divinity graduate from the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was awarded the Alison Cheek Feminist Liberation Theology Prize, and a Certificate in Ecumenism and International Mission. She was also chosen for the Preaching Excellence Conference at General Seminary. She was ordained as Deacon in 1999 and Priest in 2000. She has served parishes as Assistant Rector and Rector in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Jersey. Prior to seminary, she was the owner of Eustis Consulting, a consulting firm dealing in building construction and move management with private and non-profit clients. She is also the author of “Honor You, Honor Me” a community youth violence prevention and peer development manual. Along with Dr. Mary Lou Ashur, Carney Hospital, Dorchester, Massachusetts, she is the author of “Domestic Violence and the Healer’s Response: Strategies for Identify and Treating People Who Experienced Domestic Violence” and “Intimate Violence and the Healers Response” both presented at the Ohio State Medical Society in 1996 and The Harvard Medical School Leadership Forum in 1995. She is married to Augustus “Gus” Eustis. They have three grown children ages 25 to 30.

Our assistant, the Reverend Katharine E. Stebinger, began working with St. Barnabas in 2005, serving as youth minister, although she first attended St. Barnabas as a child visiting Cape Cod in the summers. She comes to Falmouth from the Diocese of South Dakota, where she served as seminarian on the Cheyenne River Episcopal Mission and as program director at Thunderhead Episcopal Center, the diocesan camp. In Massachusetts, Kate attended Wellesley College and Episcopal Divinity School, also serving as seminarian at Trinity Episcopal Church in Randolph.

At St. Barnabas, Kate is responsible for Christian formation for all ages. At the diocesan level, she is an adult mentor for the Youth Leadership Academy, which fosters leadership skills and Christian faith among high school students through a program of service and formation opportunities.

A native of Washington, North Carolina, Randolph S. James began his career in church music at the age of 12 as Organist and Choirmaster in the church where his father served as Senior Minister. Randolph has been an Organist and Director of Music in the Episcopal Church since 1979. He served in parishes in the Dioceses of Alabama, Florida and Georgia before coming north to the Diocese of Massachusetts to serve in interim positions in two parishes (Worcester and Newton Corner). Randolph joined us at St. Barnabas in the summer of 2003.

In addition to providing music for worship and leadership for our choirs, Randolph has started a Children's Choir using the Royal School of Church Music curriculum. He also is the accompanist for two community choruses in Falmouth and is active in the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). Randolph's office is located in the Music Room (first door on the left in the lower parish hall).