We exist to proclaim by word and deed the Good News of Jesus Christ. We strive to love our neighbors as ourselves and to respect the value and dignity of every human being.

The Rev. Jake Andrews was called to St. Bartholomew’s in August 2023. Jake is a graduate of the University of Alabama (B.A.), Beeson Divinity School (M.Div.), the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (M.Th. and Ph.D.), and the University of Iowa (M.F.A.). In 2019, Jake was ordained to the priesthood while serving as a professor at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. He spent the first years of his ordained life as an assisting priest at St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, WA, and, most recently, as the vicar of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Spokane Valley. Gradually, he felt God’s persistent call to full-time ministry and is so happy to have been called to St. Bart’s and the Shoals, where he is also the Associate Rector of Trinity. Jake is married to Christina, and they have a son, Jonah.