THE REVEREND SEAN LABAT, Rector
I was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1970, but don't let that fool you. My parents were displaced Minnesotans who happened to be stationed in San Antonio with the Air Force. I spent most of my childhood through college in Minneapolis. After graduating from college I went to seminary in New York. Following seminary, I moved to Chicago both to do pastoral ministry and to continue my graduate work in urban studies and history. I've been an Associate Pastor for several years (at another St. Michael's Church, in Burbank, Illinois). During that time I also served as an interim in one of the chapels at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Upon finishing graduate school, I became Senior Pastor of the LaSalle County Episcopal Ministry (LCEM). The LCEM is a cluster of four congregations in north central Illinois. Currently, I look forward to moving to Columbia!
I am married to Mary Riley. She is finishing law school at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb; she will be able to move to Columbia in May. She is also an anthropologist who has traveled to Laos and Vietnam several times to conduct interviews for an ongoing project with the Department of Pharmacology at U of I, Chicago. She is very interested in centering prayer.
As for my interests, I run almost every day, I enjoy reading not only theology but also history of cities, i.e., how did people get to be where they are and who they are. I view my ministry as a pastor as helping people discover their ministries both in the Church and in daily life; helping them find the tools they need to exercise those ministries. All of us have ministry and all of us are priests by our baptism. To what ministries is our Lord calling us, not just in church, but in our families, at work, and with our neighbors?

THE REVEREND PHILIP H. WHITEHEAD
Rector Emeritus
The Rev. Philip H. Whitehead was the Rector of St. Michael and All Angels' Episcopal Church for twenty-five years. Since his Ordination as an Episcopal Priest in 1961, he has been a high school teacher, a leader of spiritual and theological retreats, a prison Chaplain, a Reserve Navy Chaplain, a lecturer and an Assistant Headmaster in an Episcopal School. He has served on the board of St. Mary's College, Raleigh, North Carolina. He has been appointed by the Bishop, and elected by the Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, to serve as president of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Liturgics committee, Chairman of the Task Force on Human Sexuality, Ecumenical Officer of the Diocese and deputy to five General Conventions. He was in an exchange program with a Vicar in Morecombe, England, for three months while at St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia, and involved in three summer work trips in Appalachia. He has been an adjunct professor at the Seminary In Haiti and at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary.

VESTRY

Gus Roberts, Sr. Warden

Lynn Connell, Jr. Warden

Barbara Buckley, Clerk of Vestry

Warren Brune

Tom Cobb

Candee DePew

Morgan Lee

Paula Matthews

Susan Yelverton

STAFF

Doris Ashworth, Office Manager/Treasurer

Tamara Canzater, Director, Child Development Center

Jane Crosby, Accountant

Pamela Hair, Director, RSCM Choir

Richard McLeod, Director, Music Ministries

Shirley Roberts, Director, Christian Formation

Sherwood Williams, Administrative Liaison