Clergy

We’re excited to announce that Fr Robert Antony Rhodes will be joining Epiphany Episcopal Church as Interim Priest in mid-February.  

A Message From Fr Rob – January 12, 2025:

Dear People of Epiphany Church,

I write this on the Feast of the Epiphany to send you greetings on your Feast of Title. I do so mindful of the violence that Las Vegas experienced on the Feast of the Holy Name (New Year’s Day), but also aware that the Church is entering a season colored by the Feast of the Epiphany—a season of the manifestation of the deep truths of God as love both within (the love between the three persons of the Trinity) and reaching out to us and to all of creation (the incarnation)–a love stronger than any violence.

This season of the manifestation of God’s love is a season of wondrous realities—of starlight and unexpected gifts and the wisdom of the nations seeking God and baptizing prophets and the promise of our adoption as God’s children in Baptism and of the water of purification turned into the wine of celebration. It is my strong belief that these wondrous realities—which are the inheritance of the whole Church, and especially of a congregation claiming the Epiphany as its Feast of Title—offer a richer and more powerful response to violence like that experienced in Las Vegas on Holy Name Day, and to all kinds of suffering and injustice and longing (spiritual and material), than any the world can give.

In just a few weeks Debbi and I will join you in Las Vegas. I can’t express how much I look forward to exploring with all of you what it means to be called by God to be the Church in that part of the city in which Epiphany worships and ministers, and to find ways to share the wondrous realities of Epiphany with the people of that city and the surrounding area in our life and ministry together.  

Blessings! See you soon! 

Pax Christi,

Father Rob Rhodes

A word from Fr Rob:

I am very excited to begin to share ministry with all of you at Epiphany in February.  In my conversations with Mary Ellen, Mannie, and Bishop Gardner, it’s become clear to me that the Holy Spirit is at work there in many and varied ways, and also that there is among you a deep love of Christ, a desire to grow in his life and love, and a hunger to serve him in worship and in the poor, the suffering, and those in any kind of need. All of this resonates with the parts of ministry and life in Christ that matter most to me. I look forward to us learning and teaching each other

• what Christ looks like in one another, 
• who we are: Epiphany Church as a congregation, each of you as the Baptized, and myself as your priest, and 
• who God has shaped each of us to be before God gave us to each other to be the Church together at Epiphany Church and the surrounding neighborhoods in Las Vegas. 

Debbi and I look forward to meeting you very soon!

– Father Rob Rhodes

The Reverend Peter Steinbrenner

 Reverend Peter Steinbrenner was ordained in 2022 to the Priesthood in the Diocese of Nevada.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Washington State University and Master of Science Degree from UCLA.  Prior to his ordination, Peter worked over 40 years in the electric power industry, both in engineering and in management.    Peter and his wife Kathy are the proud parents of two children and three grandchildren. 

Contact Father Peter at Peter@nvepiphany.org

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In our memory…

The Reverend Dr. Vince O’Neil – Theologian Resident 

Father Mike Annis – “Go out into the world, to your homes, to your families and to your work, and be the Church.”

Deacon Sam Morford – “Go In Peace to Love and Serve the Lord.”