The Rev. AJ Stack was called to St. Thomas in February, 2020. He is a native of southeastern Ohio, where, before ordination, he was a Licensed Social Worker, practicing in the fields of drug and alcohol recovery, adolescent mental and behavioral health, foster care, and employability and job retention skills development. As an Appalachian with a deep cultural connection to the land and community, one of the driving forces of AJ’s ministry is a desire to walk with churches as they discover God’s call to be contextually relevant and to build meaningful, Christlike relationships within their neighborhoods.