Leadership
Rev Steven Rutt, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Steven Rutt has forty-seven (47) years of experience as a pastor, church planter, missionary, published author, and international teacher in biblical, theological, and intercultural studies within fourteen countries. He has taught at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate theological colleges and seminaries in New Zealand, Lithuania, England, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Arizona. Since 1993 he has served as founder and president of Covenant Renewal Ministries, Inc.—a non-profit missionary organization—which has enabled him to function as a conference speaker and lecturer in Europe and the United Kingdom. He remains a lecturer in missiology for the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (Oxford, England) and a professor for Cranmer Theological House—a seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church, the denomination where he serves as Vicar for a new church plant—Saint Andrew’s REC—as well as Dean of the Western Convocation/Deanery of the Diocese of Mid America. He is also a member of The Society of Anglican Theologians. He continues to serve as an Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Arizona Christian University (ACU). He has taught courses at ACU in Historical Theology; Systematic Theology; Hermeneutics; St. Paul’s Life, Teachings and Mission; Ancient Israel and its Literature; Early Christianity and its Literature; Second Century Christianity; Early Christian Creeds and Church Councils; Church History; Mission Studies (Missiology); Anglican Studies; and various books of the Bible for the past ten years. Rev. Dr. Rutt has been married to his college sweetheart, Sue, for forty-seven years, and have four wonderful children and their children married Christian spouses and have given them twelve delightful grandchildren.
Rev Mark Shields
After retiring from the Post Office, Mark moved to Arizona to attend Andrewes Hall Seminary in Phoenix AZ. Graduating with a Bachelor of Theology. After graduating Mark was ordained as a Deacon in the Reformed Episcopal Church in 2010.
Mark was then ordained a Presbyter in 2018. Mark has served at St. Andrew's REC since before his ordination, and as of 2022 has served at St. Andrew's for over 16 years. Mark has been married to Brenda (his high school sweetheart) for 46 years and they have three grown children and six grandchildren.
Rev Deacon James Allen
James Allen has been joyfully married to his wife, Jackie, for 17 years. Together, they are raising their daughter, Cadence. James came into the Reformed Episcopal Church in 2021 from a Reformed background, joining St. Andrew’s and serving in its church plant ever since.
He holds degrees in Religious Studies and Applied Ethics, and Political Science from Arizona State University and began his theological studies at Cranmer Theological House in 2023.
James has a diverse background in politics, talk radio, and marketing, and currently serves as the Investor Relations Manager at Century 21 Northwest. He is passionate about supporting church planters, enjoys long-distance running, and has recently taken up cold plunging as a daily discipline.
Our Mission
To multiply faithful servants of Christ; who will commit themselves to the worship and doctrines of the Anglican way, and who will work by God's grace and for His glory to disciple the nations through the ministry of the Church.
