Our Team
A long existential crisis as a young adult led Tim to pastoral work. He likes to say he was “spiritual-not-religious before it was a thing.” Surprisingly perhaps, it was this impulse that eventually led him to the Anglican way: mystery is celebrated an an invitation to humility; liturgy is a space in time and place set apart for soul-freedom; and there is a happy congruence of the organic and the transcendent.
Tim is currently working on a Master of Sacred Theology degree at the Yale Divinity School, focusing on Jesus’ relationship to nature (or the other-than-human creation), and how Jesus understood that relationship and his mission such that his work and sacrifice of himself leads to the liberation of nature.
A long time ago he graduated with honors from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and even longer ago from the University of North Carolina. He lived and worked in Budapest for a while and loves travel and cultures.
He and his wife, Cheryl, have founded two projects: one an ecumenical community in Maine focused on the intersection of Christian faith with care for the creation and for the poor; and the other an Anglican church in North Carolina.
Fr Tim lives on the North Shore in a 300-year-old house with Cheryl and two humongous and bumbling Bernese Mountain Dogs. One of his great passions is the outdoors and the wonder of the wild; he loves bicycling, ocean kayaking, and cross-country skiing.
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Canon Tim Clayton - Lead Pastor
The Rev. Wendy Dixon is found most often praying with people, or meeting one-on-one with people for spiritual direction. Her particular joy is working with children.
When she was 15 she started and ran a small summer camp for seven years. As a young mom, she established and administered another summer camp at a private beach club on Chappaquiddick which runs to this day. In 1989, inspired by a dream God gave to Wendy, she launched and ran for 7 years a children's toy store on the North Shore of Boston. During that time she also produced, directed, and costumed children's Christmas plays with friends' kids from across the North Shore. Later she went on to co-produce a multi-generational mime troupe presenting the Stations of the Cross.
Growing up in St. Louis, Wendy was steeped in the Anglican tradition through Morning Prayer Chapel every day at the girls school she attended for 15 years. While studying philosophy and theater at Smith College, though, her faith began to dim, and stayed dim while she was working in advertising in New York City. So what a shock it was when she found herself earnestly exploring Jesus for herself at age 33, married and with a baby, and found the whole story to be true!
Books, bibles, small groups, and classes at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary all deepened her embrace of the life of Christ. Through worship and prayer ministries at various churches, she grew in her love of God, her awe of Jesus, and her life in the Spirit.
Wendy and her husband Dennis live in Manchester-by-the-Sea. In her free time, Wendy enjoys reading, swimming, hiking with her husband Dennis, and having fun with any of their three adult daughters. contact
Mtr. Wendy Dixon -
Prayer Ministry, Trinity Children, Spiritual Direction
Michael grew up in Huntington Beach, CA, was raised in a Catholic Franciscan Church, and became part of the Anglican Church in 2009 serving since then in California and New England.
For over 25 years Michael has been an artist, singer, songwriter, producer and served in ministry as a sung worship leader. He has released 13 albums of his work with The Violet Burning, and The Satellite Heart as well as performing for many years throughout North America and Europe.
Vineyard Music/Integrity Music publish dozens of Michael’s worship songs and many of those songs are sung in churches throughout the world. Michael also has over 20 songs that have been featured on TV shows and movies throughout the world.
Michael and his beautiful wife, acclaimed Makeup Artist, Amber Lynne currently make their home in Beverly, MA along with Roxy their Schnauzer; Rupert the African Grey Parrot; along with Jack, Berlin, and Micah, their amazing Cats.
You just might run into them walking on the beach, enjoying an evening at the ballet, taking in a live music show in Boston or on Cabot Street, and of course cheering on the Patriots, the Celtics, and the Red Sox.
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Michael Pritzl -
Worship and Arts | Communications
Jennifer and her husband Eric grew up in Connecticut where they attended middle and high school together. Although she was not impressed in middle school, she discovered in high school while riding roller coasters with him on a school trip that he’s pretty funny and endearing. He’s been the only guy for her ever since. Their life, through seven cross-state moves and eight kids, continues to be a roller coaster, and she is grateful for every twist and turn, including the ones that brought them to the North Shore in 2010 and the Anglican church in 2016.
Jennifer loves to quilt as a contemplative practice. She gardens, and excels most at growing weeds most years. Her two semi-trained boxers, Beatrice and Benedick (named for Shakespeare’s characters in Much Ado About Nothing) provide her with constant entertainment when they’re not misbehaving. She reads voraciously and is surprised to find herself preferring the audiobook format as she gets older.
In another of life’s unexpected turns, Jennifer is currently enrolled at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies with dual concentrations in Spiritual Formation and Intercultural Studies. Her family’s struggles with trauma and mental health, combined with her experience as a trans-racially adoptive parent, have ignited a passion to take to the church and the community what’s she’s learned about God’s heart for healing. She’s not sure what that ministry will look like yet, but she trusts the same loving Father who has faithfully directed her steps through every turn thus far will continue to make the way clear as she goes.
Deacon Jennifer Keifer
Parish Council and Ministry
Kirsten grew up in Minnesota and New Hampshire in a ministry family, so early memories include activities involving snow and being at church much of the time. She attended Gordon College for Spanish and Education and has a Masters degree from Boston University. During her formative early adult years, she spent time in Romania working with orphans and an adoption agency. She has a deep interest in other cultures and peoples and has traveled to other countries on mission prior to starting a family.
Professionally, Kirsten has worked in an inner city school in a dual language program and as a reading specialist. She has also worked in private schools on the North Shore coordinating academic support. In church ministry, Kirsten has been involved in catechesis and hospitality and enjoys facilitating community.
Kirsten and her husband Matthew have lived on the North Shore of Boston for 20 years and have two children, Madeleine and Jack. Together they enjoy hiking and cross-country skiing or playing a good game of Catan. Kirsten also knits, gardens, and cooks for fun, when she can find time.
Kirsten Trumbull - Sr. Warden
Peter began ministering to youth in 1978 through Youth for Christ on Long Island. In 1981 he joined the staff of Long Island Youth Mentoring and worked as an Area Director for mentoring ministry. He helped develop a mentoring ministry with incarcerated juveniles and later served as the Field Staff Supervisor. In 1996 Peter moved to Massachusetts to become the New England Director for Straight Ahead Ministries. In 2000 he became the National Field Director where he helped develop the School of Juvenile Justice Ministry. After leaving Straight Ahead, Peter started the Christian Mentoring Institute in 2003 under the leadership of Long Island Youth Mentoring. Along with his duties at CMI, Peter was a part-time faculty member at Gordon College from 1999-2008 where he taught courses in counseling and at-risk youth. CMI merged with CAYM in 2005 and Peter became the Executive Director two years later. Peter has a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University
Peter Vanacore - Jr. Warden
Mark Schmalz - Treasurer
Mark was born and raised in the Midwest and moved to New England for graduate school. He spent a decade in Cambridge and Boston, where he met his wife Michaela, before moving to the North Shore. They now live in Hamilton with their two young daughters. They enjoy the proximity to the ocean and the natural beauty of the area.
Growing up in and around the church, Mark has been blessed by strong communities of believers over the years. While the Anglican tradition is a new walk for Mark and his family, they have been thrilled to call Trinity home.
Mark started his career at PwC and worked in corporate finance for a software company before moving into the private equity space. He and his family love traveling, experiencing new restaurants, occasionally running (marathoner x2), skiing and other outdoor adventures.
Alex Miller - Clerk
Alex Miller grew up in Black Mountain, North Carolina. He studied English at Covenant College and at the University of Edinburgh, two places where his fascination with the art of storytelling deepened his appreciation for the story of Jesus.
He and his wife Dani moved to Beverly in 2010. He has taught English at Covenant Christian Academy and at Gordon College since 2011. Alex, Dani, and their two sons, Brody and Rowan, enjoy hiking, cooking, gardening, and hosting meals for their family and friends.
Jodi grew up in Connecticut, but never identified as a New Englander until she married Brent and started traveling all over the country and abroad. Southern accents in Memphis TN were different, the slow life of Northern Arizona was challenging, and the immense hospitality in Afghanistan was humbling. Their many and varied experiences have given both Brent and Jodi a love for other cultures, and a deep appreciation for the transforming power of God in their own lives and lives of others.
Jodi studied Spanish and English literature at Gordon College, planning to become a single missionary in South America. In God’s sovereignty (and sense of humor), instead she got married, taught high school Spanish for 15 years, and lived in Central Asia for 5 years with her family. Riding camels and ATVs in the desert of the Middle East couldn’t keep them away from the North Shore, and the Frylings returned to Beverly in 2013. Now Jodi is a medical interpreter and receptionist for a community health clinic in Gloucester, MA. She loves speaking Spanish all day long, and is learning Portuguese to (hopefully) communicate with the large Brazilian population in the area.
Jodi also loves reading books and listening to music. When she isn’t being introverted, she enjoys vacationing in the White Mountains, NH with husband Brent, sons Daniel (age 15) and Isaac (age 14), and labradoodle Willow.
Being a part of the Anglican community has taken all of Jodi’s Church experiences and put them into one. When she met Jesus, He was (and is) a brother, One who walks alongside and forgives. When she met the Holy Spirit, she found a Counselor, a Guide. In the Anglican Church, she falls on her knees in worship of the Majestic Creator of All. And she is learning that He IS the One in Three, giving her always-true glimpses of Himself as she grows as a disciple of Christ, wherever she is.
Jodi Fryling - Member
Nathaniel Youndt - Member
Nathaniel grew up in the heart of Amish Country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the middle child between two sisters.
Nathaniel met his wife, Meridien, while studying in Italy and through their unlikely close friendship as English and Biology/Chemistry students. It was also in Italy that Nathaniel was able to participate in the Catholic liturgies of both small local parishes and large cathedrals. This ignited a deep appreciation and interest in the experience of divinity through ordered beauty. A born and bred Presbyterian, this was all new.
After studying the Arts and Humanities, Nathaniel found himself in the biopharmaceutical industry, eventually returning to school for an MBA, and continues to work in the field of advanced therapeutics manufacturing. When not working, he enjoys venturing out on family walks, searching for the best coffee, and road cycling around the North Shore.
Along with their mini goldendoodle, Margot, Nathaniel and Meridien live in Beverly and welcomed their first daughter in April 2022.
Trinity Kids and Youth Team
Cheryl Clayton loves working with the nursery little people at Trinity. They enter into worship and liturgy singing songs, reading stories, shaking maracas, learning to share and perhaps most importantly, playing.
Cheryl has a Masters degree in Counseling and served as the director of the Career Counseling Center at Gordon College while her husband Tim was in seminary. She and Tim worked their way through graduate schools, working nine years in-residence on college campuses in student development and serving in counseling/pastoral roles.
Through their 25 years in ministry, Cheryl has lead children’s ministry in two previous church plants, lead the English for Speakers of Other Languages ministry in Falls Church, VA, and has co-led missions trips and youth programs. These experiences and others have allowed her to care for many pastorally, and led her to train in healing prayer.
She thoroughly enjoys her work as a real estate agent, and squeezes in time for intense bouts of knitting, reading, sea kayaking, and generally soaking in natural beauty. Cheryl and Tim have enormous delight in their three adult children and son-in-law and love spending time together. In quieter moments, Cheryl can often be found lying on the floor of their 300-year-old home with the family’s beloved Bernese Mountain dogs, Walter and Shakespeare
Cheryl Clayton
Matt grew up in a small town in Northeastern Ohio, and during high school and college got the opportunity to be involved in an active youth group in a non-denominational evangelical church where he fell in love with the Old Testament and the Christian story, along with getting to go on local and US based missions trips. After college he went to Gordon-Conwell and found himself drawn to Anglicanism and New England as well.
While completing an M.Div. and a Th.M. in the Old Testament, he became confirmed in ACNA and was able to work under a group of wonderful priests and laity while entering into the liturgy and the Anglican way. He also was able to begin to learn Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and was blessed to work with children and youth of various ages while in Seminary and after. Matt loves to work with kids and young adults to help them grow their faith and find wonder in the Christian story, and with all ages to find together the amazing story that the Triune God has called us into from the Old Testament all the way up to the current day.
Matt will probably tell you way too much about Ezekiel, Exodus, and Job, and would love to talk to you about God and about your own story. He loves working with our children’s ministry teaching through God's Big Story and seeing what amazing things the kids will say next about God and their own stories.
Matt Barnes
Our Trinity Kids and Youth Team also includes Kirsten Trumbull, and is led by Mother Wendy Dixon
You can read about them and their background in Our Team section above