The Reverend Nathaniel K. M. Darville
Rector
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Emergency Phone: 973.264.9572
The Rev. Nathaniel Darville comes to St. Peter’s from Pike Road, Alabama, where he was rector of Grace Episcopal Church. Along with him, he brings his wife, Rheagan, an environment lawyer, son Lawrence (Wren), son, Julien (Jule), and brown lab mixes, Nico and Ziggy. Fr. Nate was born and raised in Upstate New York, the son of two Assemblies of God ministers. He found his way into the Episcopal Church as a freshman in college, and was confirmed a few years later. In 2006, he moved to New York City to work in hospital administration. It was while he was living in Brooklyn that he met his wife. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Rheagan and Nate moved to the south, eventually settling in Birmingham, Alabama. There they became active in an Episcopal parish, which eventually led Nate to enter the process of discernment in the Diocese of Alabama. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Kee Sloan in 2018.
Fr. Nate has a Bachelor’s Degree in the Classics from Asbury College, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Seminary, a Master of Sacred Theology from Union Seminary at Columbia University, and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from the University of the South School of Theology. Fr. Nate is a student of history with a fascination for U.S. politics, a die hard Mets fan, an amateur coffee roaster, and a recreational long distance runner. Nate and Rheagan love traveling with their two dogs and two sons.
Mark Trautman
Director of Music and Administrator
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Mark A. Trautman is Director of Music and Administrator at St Peter’s. A professional church musician since his teens, he has a broad range of experience building and strengthening music programs and developing congregational song. He is an award-winning organist, and has performed throughout the United States, England, and Germany. He has been described as a “clear and communicative conductor” by Classical New Jersey and he has conducted at the State Theatre and George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ Performing Arts Center in Newark. He has also been a featured organist on CNN and New Jersey Public Television. Mr. Trautman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in organ performance and church music with honors and distinction from Towson University in Baltimore and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany. He served for 11 years at Music Director of St. Paul’s, Englewood, where founded the award-winning St. Paul’s Choir School. Prior to that, he served Christ Church in New Brunswick for 17 years, and is responsible for commissioning their unique Richards, Fowkes & Company mechanical action pipe organ and developing a full time, multi-generational choral program and an award-winning concert series. He is in demand as a teacher, conductor, consultant, and guest lecturer, and has served as an adjudicator for events sponsored by the American Choral Directors’ Association, the American Guild of Organists, and the New Jersey Folk Festival.
Dana Leach
Care and Connect
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Dana Leach began organizing the “Care and Connect” prayer circle in the fall of 2024. The mission is twofold: “To care for the members of our St. Peter’s family. And—to connect St. Peter’s family members, new and old, to one another.” Care & Connect is a ministry in which the entire parish plays a part, by checking on friends we haven’t seen in a while, reaching out to those who are ill or hurting, and welcoming those we notice are new to our parish community.
DJ Elmore
Bookkeeper
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DJ has served St. Peter’s since June 2016. She has been an Episcopalian after she experienced an adult conversion to Christianity at St. Bartholomew’s NYC in the 1980s. Originally from Mississippi, she is a retired audit specialist with PricewaterhouseCoopers.