CLERGY AND STAFF

The Rev. deniray Mueller
DEACON

This congregation supported deniray in ordination to the Sacred Order of the Diaconate in 2008. They gave love, encouragement, and support along the journey. deniray served as a Deacon at Trinity for many years, celebrating Sunday liturgy and on special occasions, as well as Deacon-in-Charge of In The Garden for approximately ten years. At the Diocesan level, deniray served as Legislative Liaison to state and federal government with Bread for the World, Sojourners, and Church World Services and also many years as chair of the Social Justice Committee, publishing weekly alerts to the Diocese and on the Diocese of Southern Ohio Bishop Transition Team, where deniray was honored to be the Deacon of the Book at the installation of Rt Rev Kristin Uffelman-White.

deniray has been chaplain to Diocesan bishops in their Episcopal visits, introducing and emphasizing the importance of Deacons in the church, served for over eight years as a Deacon at Saint John’s Worthington and provided pastoral care. Before returning to Trinity, deniray served two years at Saint John’s Columbus, a mission church in the Franklinton area where weekly Street Church was conducted on the corner of Broad and Central Avenue, held a midweek service and dinner, and served meals for people who were uncomfortable worshipping in a physical church building or homeless/minimally housed people in the neighborhood.

deniray serves as Interim Chaplain and Chair of the Spiritual Life Committee at Ohio Living Westminster Thurber, a continuous care facility near downtown. deniray has been married to Dr. Karen Peeler for over 26 years and reside in independent living at Westminster Thurber.

deniray returned to Trinity in 2023 and continues outreach to the broader community. as representative for Trinity at the Interfaith Justice Table and Columbus Coalition for the Homeless. Faith & Public Life. deniray informs our congregation about social justice issues and encourages congregants to act at the state and federal levels. To quote Teresa of Avila, ‘Jesus has no body but ours’. We can make a difference in our world.

The Rev. Jed Dearing
RECTOR

Rev. Jed serves as the 25th Rector of Trinity on Capitol Square. A forever fan of the westside of Columbus, Jed first worshipped regularly as an Episcopalian at the Street Church service of St. John's Town Street in Franklinton, where he was also confirmed and served as a lay preacher. Jed launched the Confluence Episcopal Service Corps Program in Columbus which he served for 5 years as director, including a stint as Interim Executive Director for Episcopal Service Corps nationally, before discerning a call to the priesthood. He received his Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, then served as clergy in residence at St. Francis Springboro. Jed has previously served in the Diocese as both a member of Praxis Communities and the Commission on Ministry. Jed and his wife Raine, have two rambunctious boys, Llewyn and Reynolds who both love serving at Trinity's In the Garden meal ministry and riding the #10 bus with their Papa back home from church.

Episcopal Associate Rector, the Reverend Iva Joyce-Miesse

Kevin Wines
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
LITURGIST

Kevin N. Wines, Director or Music/Liturgist came to Trinity Church in the fall of 1990 as the temporary choir director. Over time Kevin’s responsibilities have grown to include serving as director of music, liturgist and organist for the parish. Kevin has served on the diocesan commission for music and liturgy and directed the combined choir for the 2024 installation/ordination of the then new bishop. Also, a member of the music faculty at Denison University in Granville, Kevin teaches private voice lessons and classes in music theatre and is music director for the music theatre program. During the summers, he serves as resident music director for Weathervane Playhouse in Newark, Ohio. Kevin lives in Granville with his husband Kent Phillips and their menagerie of dogs and cats.

David Talbot

FACILITIES AND GROUNDS ADMINISTRATOR

Caroline Welling VanDeusen

PARISH ADMINISTRATOR

The Rev. Iva Joyce-Miesse
ASSOCIATE RECTOR

Rev. Iva is a lifelong Episcopalian, having grown up in rural south-central Ohio, and bearing early witness to the love of Christ-lived-out within her early faith community, St. Johns’ Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Ohio.

She discerned her first call to health care at the tender age of fourteen when she began attending physical therapy with her father after he experienced a near amputation of multiple fingers. She obtained undergraduate degrees in Exercise Physiology and Athletic Training from Miami University and subsequently attended Ohio University to obtain her degree in Physical Therapy. Prior to discerning a call to the priesthood, she practiced outpatient orthopedic and sports medicine physical therapy for almost thirty years with multiple segues into management and departmental directorships, but throughout, her heart remained in patient care and her ministry of healing.

Rev. Iva earned her Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia in May of 2022. She migrated home to Ohio to accept her first call as the Associate Rector at Trinity in May of 2024 after spending just over a year in Boulder, Colorado while her wife, also an Episcopal priest, served at her first call in an Episcopal parish nearby.

Rev. Iva is the proud momma of two amazing adult children, Ryan and Gwyneth. She and her wife, Julia, are the devoted servants of their nearly one year old cat, Sherman. When not engaged in the work of the church, Iva is an avid hiker. She also enjoys adventuring with Julia, cooking (and eating), time around the kitchen table and traveling near and far.

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