Poynor to speak at St. Michael’s Episcopal

The Rev. Tom Poynor, will be the guest priest at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, Sept. 1. The service will begin at 10 a.m. Poynor is a 1993 graduate of Fayette County High School. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of the South (Sewanee) in Sewanee, Tenn. and has earned Master’s Degrees from Oxford University in England, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He was ordained a priest on June 8, 2024 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco by Bishop Marc Andrus. His parents, David Poynor, and Paula Poynor, along with sisters Leslie and Jennifer, were present for the ordination ceremony. Poynor began his work for the Episcopal Church upon graduating from Sewanee in 1997, serving as Youth Minister at churches in Florence and Anniston before moving to California in 2007 to be the Episcopal Chaplain at Berkeley.