Beth has a passion for preaching, vibrant worship, and welcoming people in all their diversity to God’s table.  Her previous career was in non-profit management in New York City, Denver and Chicago where she worked to unveil the unnecessary but painful reality of hunger in our neighborhoods. She also served as an associate at Christ Church Cranbrook and as a seminarian at All Saints’  in Chicago. Beth and her husband Mark have two children, Gianni and Sofia. She is also a jazz and bluegrass singer, an avid reader and traveler. 

Deacon Tim Spannaus is a teacher and acts as a bridge between the church and the world. He co-leads the Stephen Ministry at St. John’s, training and helping others to care for those who need supportive, long-term pastoral care. In the wider church Tim leads the Vocational Development and Lifelong Learning task force for the Association for Episcopal Deacons and serves on the advisory boards for the Whitaker Institute, the Center for Anglican Leadership and Learning (California), and the Centre for Christian Studies (Canada). Before coming to St. John’s Tim served at a Lutheran church. In his secular employment Tim is faculty at Wayne State University. With his wife Collette he loves to cook, travel, and read, especially history and spy novels. He has two grown sons and one grandson.

Music Director Dr. Steven McGhee has established himself as a fixture of the art scene of metro Detroit as the artistic director and principal conductor of the city’s renegade opera company, Opera MODO. He earned his doctorate in collaborative piano under Martin Katz, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Long Island University, and New York University, and currently teaches at Madonna University and Wayne State University. As an artist, Dr. McGhee is known for his innovative programming, for challenging societal and gender norms, particularly in the opera world, and for fostering empathy and compassion in his work as a collaborative artist.