Clergy
The Rev'd John Needham, SSC
- Father John was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After graduating High School he served six years in the U.S. Navy based at NAS Oceana and later with the SeaBees. He returned to Ann Arbor with his wife, Michelle, and daughter to complete his BA in philosophy at the University of Michigan. During six years with a fortune 100 company he and Michelle welcomed their second daughter. He went on to found a financial services company with six offices in three states. During this time he was ordained into the diaconate in the Province of Christ the King. Eight years later he attended the Master of Ministry program at Nashotah House Seminary and then received his Master of Divinity from Liberty Seminary. He served as deacon and curate at St John Baptist Anglican Church, Marshall, VA before becoming the third rector of St Peter's Anglican Church, Cypress, TX as a priest in the Diocese of the Holy Cross and served for nine years. Fr John returned to Virginia in 2019 to become the fifth rector of St Michael's Anglican Church, Winchester, VA just a few hours from his daughters and two grandsons.
Organist
Dr Elizabeth Watkins Caluda
Elizabeth Watkins Caluda is a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan and holds degrees from Aquinas College, Northwestern University, and The Catholic University of America. She retired in 2017 from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, after 39 years where she was a member of the piano faculty, coordinated the Group Piano and Pedagogy programs in the Conservatory and taught Piano Pedagogy (the art of teaching piano). In addition, she served as Chair of the Keyboard Division. Her teachers have included Thomas Mastroianni, Bela Borszymenyi Nagy, Barbara English Maris, and other fine teachers and players. Elizabeth’s sabbatical projects have included “Impressionism and Its Influence on the Piano Music of Claude Debussy” during which she travelled to London and Paris and “Using the Brain in Learning, Teaching, Performing, and Memorizing Music,” another ongoing passion of study.
She is active in her retirement as a solo and ensemble performer, clinician, adjudicator, teacher, researcher, organization board member, and church musician. .