[Deb] Adams, who has lived in Teton Valley for the past 30 years, said she\u2019s been attending St. Francis since it started just over 20 years ago. For the past 10, she\u2019s been studying in the hours off from her job as executive director of the Teton County Library in Jackson, Wyoming.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something I\u2019ve been drawn to for a really long time,\u201d\u009d Adams said. \u201cA lot of it comes from the modeling of my parents who were all about service.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Service, Adams said, was the environment she grew up in. And now, besides delivering sermons and counseling with parishioners, she\u2019ll be able to officiate in the church\u2019s sacraments, which include celebrating communion and performing weddings.<\/p>\n
Instead of taking an alternate route of studying at a theological seminary, Adams enrolled in online classes through Church Divinity School of the Pacific and took additional courses and workshops at the Episcopal Church in Idaho Falls.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> and the parish website is there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Deb] Adams, who has lived in Teton Valley for the past 30 years, said she\u2019s been attending St. Francis since it started just over 20 years ago. For the past 10, she\u2019s been studying in the hours off from her…<\/span><\/p>\n