The Reverend Will Berry

Originally from Pennsylvania, Rev. Will was raised in the United Methodist Church and became an Episcopalian after college when he worked as the ministry assistant for an Episcopal campus ministry in Greensboro, North Carolina. He discerned a call to ordination at a young age but didn’t see that call come to fruition until several years within his ministry as a lay person. During college, Will+ also spent time sojourning among the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers) and has Quaker family roots dating to the founding of Pennsylvania.

Rev. Will attended The Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX and graduated in 2019. His first call was an associate at Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, KY, and he served afterwards as the Priest-in-Charge of Church of the Resurrection in Nicholasville. Most recently, Will+ served as the Associate Rector for Families & Formation at St. Stephen’s in Charleston and served for three years as the chair of the diocesan youth commission.

Will+ joins us along with his wife Caitlin, their son Thomas, and their two cats Hairy and Rooster. Their family lives just over the bridge on John’s Island in the Whitney Lake Community, where they ride their golf cart and feed the neighborhood turtles. When he’s not working or with his family, Rev. Will is a frequent visitor of Camp St. Christopher, where he often serves as a summer session chaplain and on the leadership team of Happening, a nation-wide experience for Episcopal youth. You can also often find him at local ice cream and “froyo” joints, enjoying a cold treat.

Rev. Will is excited to bring over fourteen years of ministry experience in the Episcopal Church and to help shepherd St. James into a new chapter of growth and renewal.

Feel free to contact Will+ by emailing him at willberry@saintjamesji.org or by clicking the button below!