Rev. Canon Hilary Greer, Rector

Rev. Hilary Greer has been serving St. Andrew’s since 2018. She previously served as Priest-in-Charge and University Chaplain at St. Mark’s Episcopal Chapel at the University of Connecticut. Hilary is a 1996 graduate of Oberlin College and after 15 years of leading national non-profits, completed her Master of Divinity degree at the Episcopal Divinity School. Prior to seminary, her work focused on philanthropic and organizational development initiatives designed to strengthen grassroots cooperatives and community development corporations across the U.S. and Canada. Transitioning into ministry as an interfaith hospital chaplain, Hilary specialized in trauma, which later led her to Rwanda to study processes of justice and reconciliation among genocide offenders and survivors.

Hilary has lived across the United States, as well as studying in Mexico (economic development), Rwanda (genocide and reconciliation), and India (liberation movements and Dalit theology). She currently serves as the board chair of the Society for the Increase of Ministry (SIM), an organization developing leadership capacity for adaptive change in the Episcopal Church. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Hilary is also a board member of St. James Philadelphia, a tuition-free Episcopal school and vibrant community organization serving the city’s Allegheny West neighborhood. While continuing to be the full-time Rector at St. Andrew’s, Hilary was named the honorary Canon for Education and Renewal in the Diocese of Pennsylvania by Bishop Gutierrez in 2020. In that role, she leads programs designed to educate, feed the soul, and form the people of the diocese to creatively engage in God’s mission for the world today.

Caz Tod Pearson, Community Life Associate

Caz Tod Pearson is a New Zealander who came to the US in 2004 to participate in Mission Year, a one-year volunteer service program that invited young adults to ask questions at the intersection of faith and justice. She went on to work for Mission Year in Philadelphia and Atlanta in various roles for 14 years. Through her work with Mission Year, she was introduced to The Simple Way, a small community organization that comes alongside its neighbors to support building a neighborhood where everyone belongs and thrives together. Caz moved to the Kensington neighborhood to pursue community with The Simple Way in 2008. She helped with community care, was on the board of directors for 4 years, and then went on to direct the work for 10 years.

In 2009, she trained as a spiritual director at the Kairos School for Spiritual Direction and Formation. She initially used her training as she accompanied the young adults in Mission Year and has since offered spiritual direction and groups through various organizations, including the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Group Spiritual Direction program. Caz is in her last year of a Master’s degree in Practical Theology at Palmer Seminary at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA.

Caz is married to Mike, and they have two kids: Asa, 9, and Ngaire, 7. She likes to watch the All Blacks play rugby, read memoirs, ride her bike, walk along the beach, and quietly watch the night change to day.

Hayley Rubins-Topoleski, Parish Administrator

Hayley (she/they) brings over a decade of office administration, accounting, and nonprofit management experience to St. Andrew’s. Hayley was an accounting manager and financial analyst for Addteq for seven years, where she was voted Problem Solver of the Year and oversaw everything from accounts to payroll to HR functions/benefits and budgets. Additionally, Hayley has served as the Director of Marketing for ActorsNET of Bucks County (where she’s also often been seen on and off stage) and is currently the President of ACT Bucks County, a consortium of Bucks-based community theatres. Hayley is a passionate community organizer and activist, having spent five years volunteering as a safe space host and community liaison at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice in Princeton. Hayley received a mini-MBA from Rutgers Business School and a BA from CUNY-Brooklyn.

Dr. Hannah Carr, Minister of Music

Originally from Ireland, Dr. Hannah Carr is Director of Choral Activities at William Paterson University, following five years on the faculty at Kutztown University. Hannah holds a BA in Composition from Trinity College Dublin, an Adv. Dip in Music Education from the Kodály Institute in Hungary, an MM in Conducting from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and a DMA in Conducting from Rutgers University.

Hannah is director of Cantigas, a Hoboken-based treble choir dedicated to performing diverse music from around the world. Hannah has worked with professional choirs as director of the University Church at Yale, Stratford Street United Church in Boston, and with C4 Ensemble in New York City. With C4, Hannah served as conducting chair, and was a featured conductor on C4’s debut album, Uncaged.

Hannah has won various prizes, including the Irene Alms Memorial Prize at Rutgers University, The Director’s Prize from Yale University, The Highest Bursary Award for Choral Conducting in 2009 & 2010 from the Irish Arts Council, and The Gerard Victory Prize for Composition from Trinity College Dublin. Hannah is an artist-in-residence at Ireland’s Tyrone Guthrie Center. Hannah is active as a clinician of choral music, most recently as PMEA Region 1 Festival Conductor in Pittsburgh and as an adjudicator at the ACDA All-State High School Choir Festival.

Hannah will be joining us at St. Andrew’s in January of 2025.

Bob Ebert, Sexton

Bob Ebert has provided regular and long-term maintenance and repair to the grounds and properties since 2004. He owns and operates Bob’s Home Repairs in Yardley.

Virginia Briggs, Nursery Care