The Rev. Maryann D. Younger brings 22 years of executive experience as the Director of a Montessori School, leading national efforts to increase and reward volunteerism, and actively guiding an Episcopal Preschool as its Founder and Board Chair. 

Experienced in deep listening and relationship-building ministries, she served 4 years as a chaplain in a children’s hospital, led and created multiple programs that prepared laity to provide pastoral care, prayer, and visitations, and guided individuals and nonprofit organizations through transformational times.

Using an entrepreneurial approach, she works to reimagine the future of the church today. Over the past 7 years, she repeatedly created liturgically based worship that engaged the disengaged, generated new ways of family and children’s worship, and enhanced and developed welcoming ministries. 

Highly organized and energetic, she looks forward to getting to know the community of St. Philip’s and celebrating the authentic ways that we can grow not only in our own spirituality but in the ways that we impact the wider needs of Durham.