Please join us on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 11:45 a.m. for Seminary of the Southwest’s annual celebration of our founder, the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines. The event will take place in Christ Chapel on Seminary of the Southwest’s campus, with a lunch following in the Howell Dining Hall.
John Hines Day Schedule
11:45am ~ Christ Chapel: Festal Eucharist celebrating The Rt. Rev. John Elbridge Hines
The Rev. Jemonde Taylor, Rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Raleigh, NC, will preach at the service. More about the Rev. Taylor below.
Please RSVP below.
The service will also be live-streamed on the seminary website or facebook page.
Want to learn more about the John Hines Legacy Society and how to make a legacy gift? Contact April Kerwin, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving at 512.439.0326 or [email protected]
Since 2012, the Reverend Robert Jemonde Taylor serves as the eleventh rector of Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church. He grew up in Saint Matthias’ Episcopal Church, Louisburg, NC. Father Taylor nurtures a season of liturgical renewal at Saint Ambrose with an emphasis on African American and African culture through Ethiopian Orthodox icons as Stations of the Cross, icons and kneelers of African American Episcopal saints, Episcopal service music based on African American Spirituals, and a Jazz Mass.
He is active in the larger Church as board member and treasurer for the Gathering of Leaders, the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest board of trustee member, consultant for the Office of Black Ministries, the Episcopal Church Foundation Congregational Leadership Initiative (CLI) faculty, and a contributor to Sermons that Work. Taylor’s work throughout the Anglican Communion includes the Compass Rose Society (U.K.), ministry in the Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria (Egypt), and the Anglican Church of Kenya. Father Taylor is working on a documentary film on Race, Church, and Theological Practices funded by a $400,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Prior to arriving at Saint Ambrose, Father Taylor served Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX as a part of the Lilly Foundation’s Transition into Ministry Fellowship. In addition to his responsibilities at Saint Michael, his ministry encompassed Jubilee Park, a mostly Spanish speaking neighborhood, and Saint Philip’s School and Community Center, a historically African American Episcopal elementary school.
He is married to Kierson Leigh Taylor, and they are the proud parents of two children. Read more about the Rev. Taylor here.
