REVEREND TED VOORHEES, Vicar 


The Rev. Ted Voorhees has been Vicar of St. Cyprian’s since November of 2008. Ted and his wife, Caren Goldman, moved to the area in 2007 from Northampton, Massachusetts where he served for three years as a long-term interim at St. John’s Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. Prior to living in New England, Ted led congregations in North Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio. While serving as Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the historic Old West End in Toledo, OH the congregation was honored nationally as a Jubilee Ministry for its extraordinary outreach programs to the city.

Ted graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia and was ordained in 1975. While in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area he did field work at St. Mark’s Capital Hill and attended classes at Catholic University and American University in Georgetown. Prior to making the decision to become an Episcopal priest, Ted taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

As trained Bridgebuilder conflict resolution consultants and Healthy Congregations trainers, Ted and Caren have used a systems based approach to managing conflict with more than 20 congregations in six different protestant denominations, as well as a number of secular non-profit groups such as the YWCA. As a gifted preacher and speaker, Ted is often invited to present at conferences and workshops. These have included the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and the Diocese of Massachusetts’s Episcopal City Mission. Additionally, Ted and Caren have led retreats nationally at renowned centers such as Kirkridge Retreat and Conference Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania and in churches on the East Coast and in the Midwest. He is the co-author, along with Caren, of Across the Threshold, Into the Questions: Discovering Jesus, Finding Self (Morehouse Publishing, 2008) and a contributing writer and former associate editor of the Bible Workbench.

Ted and Caren have four grown children and two grandchildren in a blended family. Their lives are ruled by two 15lbs. canines, Micah and Karma.

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REVEREND DEENA GALANTOWICZ, Associate

Our Associate, the Rev. Deena McHenry Galantowicz (known as Pastor Deena) retired from Trinity Parish, St. Augustine in 2002 after serving as the Associate Rector and Director of its Pre-School for ten years.  She currently does supply work around this Diocese, in Vermont and in the summers, in Ireland, but her home church is St. Cyprian’s.  

Pastor Deena graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York City with a Master of Divinity and a Masters in Biomedical Ethics, and was ordained to the Priesthood in 1980. She served various parishes in New Jersey and Connecticut before moving to Florida in 1991.  She has also been a Chaplain and teacher at an Episcopal Boarding School, a Hospice Chaplain and a Hospital Chaplain. She has served on various diocesan committees in New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida, and on the Board of Trustees of General Seminary.

Pastor Deena has a special history with St. Cyprian’s.  In 1999 while she was at Trinity the parish “loaned” her to try to revitalize St. Cyprian’s.  At that time St. Cyprian’s was disintegrating.  There were very few members and the church and the mission house were both in desperate need of repairs and renovations.  She entered into a ministry of revitalization of St. Cyprian’s which included slowly strengthening its membership and putting efforts into gaining grants for building restoration with the help of others at Trinity, principally Margie Rahner and Mike Strock.  In 2000, a new Vicar was appointed to St. Cyprian’s and the congregation grew significantly, but at the end of 2006 he left the Episcopal Church and most of the congregation followed him.  By this time Pastor Deena had retired, so she offered to be their priest again and help stabilize the remaining congregation until a new Vicar was appointed in July 2007.

Prior to seminary, Pastor Deena was a research microbiologist studying multiple sclerosis.  She has been married since college to Richard, who is a retired land use planner and environmental attorney; they have two grown children, a daughter in business and a married son who is a pediatric heart surgeon with four children.
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HOLLY HORAHAN, Office Administrative Assistant

Originally from Tampa, Holly has lived in St. Augustine for 12 years. She started work at St. Cyprian’s in late 2007, beginning with just a few hours a week in the office, however, as the congregation grew in Spirit and numbers, there was more and more to be done. Holly is officially the Office Administrative Assistant, but she wears many hats including Bookkeeper, Wedding Coordinator, and occasional Landscaper.  She is in the office full-time Monday thru Friday, but it is not unusual to see her around the church on Saturday for a wedding or planting some new flowers.