Mother Julie 
The Rev. Julie Anna Johnson comes to us from St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Battle Creek, TN where she has served as a clergy assistant since 2005. Mother Julie attended seminary at The University of the South School of Theology and received her Master of Divinity in May 2008. While in seminary, she also completed course work in pastoral care, community outreach, and leadership development. She also spent two years reading Greek and was selected to attend the Excellence in Preaching Conference. Mother Julie attained her undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Child Development at Humboldt State University in Northern California. She worked with the developmentally disabled for over twenty years before serving in parishes as a youth pastor in California and Indiana.
Mother Julie is married to Thomas, a conservation worker for the State of Tennessee Parks Department. They have three children and enjoy spending time camping, four wheeling, and Geo-caching. Mother Julie spends her free time gardening, reading, creating art, and gourmet cooking.
Her ministry style can be summed up in this prayer attributed to St. Francis: “Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.”
It is with enthusiasm and expectation that she ministers her first year as rector at St. Alban’s and to the community of Hixson.
"the little church with a big heart"
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