Welcome Joe!

Welcome Joe and Shoko!

Our new curate, Joe Kimmell will officially join St. Anne's staff this week, his first Sunday being July 24. We hope you will join us in the Sanctuary for 9 am worship, followed by a welcome coffee hour in Flint Hall.

Joe is originally from Chicago where he grew up in an evangelical church. After college, Joe moved to Lhasa, Tibet as an evangelical missionary. While studying at Tibet University, he met his wife Shoko who was in Tibet for her doctoral research on Tibetan Buddhism from her native Japan, where they were married in 2009. They moved together to the Chicago area in 2010, as Joe completed an M.A. in Clinical Psychology. Then, after moving to Cambridge in 2013, Joe earned an M.Div. at Harvard Divinity School, before discerning a call to ordained ministry as an Episcopal priest.

Now, while Shoko teaches colloquial Tibetan in Harvard's South Asian Studies department, Joe is completing the final year of his Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard in New Testament and Comparative Religion. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor at Boston College, teaching introductory courses to the Bible. In their spare time, Shoko and Joe love to travel, cook (Shoko), and watch reruns of really old Law and Order episodes (Joe).