Weekly

Services

Sunday Worship with Holy Communion

8:30 and 11:00 am. Nursery available through age 5.

Sunday Morning Christian Education

9:45 am during the school year. To download a youth registration form, please click here.

Taizé Service

Sundays, 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Praise

6:45 p.m. during the school year

About Worship

Vicar Emily

Vicar Emily Tveite
Pastoral Intern
Office Phone:360-892-7160

Email: vicar@salcvan.org

Thank you all for the warm welcome to St. Andrew. I am looking forward to our year together. Although I have enjoyed my seminary studies, I am excited for the opportunity to be involved in the day-to-day activities of the vibrant ministry in this place. So much is going on at St. Andrew, with such a focus on living lives of Christian service. I am blessed to be a part of your ministry this year.

I come to you most recently from Chicago but originally am from Austin, Texas, where I was born and grew up. My parents moved to Texas from the Midwest when they were in their 20s, so I grew up with little extended family nearby. My home church was an important part of my childhood because it served as an extended family of sorts.

My sister, Andrea Grace (called Gracie), is two years younger than I and is a 2009 graduate of Northwestern University. Our parents divorced when we were in elementary school but stayed near one another, so we grew up with the rich experience of two families. My mother is a Christian education director and my father is an electrical engineer. My dad married my stepmother, Holly, about 15 years ago. They have three children together -- 10-year-old twins (Wesley and Melanie) and an 8-year-old (Terrence).

I attended St. Olaf College, where I met my husband, Paul Tveite (pronounced TWI-tee). At St. Olaf I majored in religion but enjoyed taking classes in many other subjects. I spent a semester abroad at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and two January terms at Holden Village. Paul studied mathematics at St. Olaf and is working on his math Ph.D at Boston University, from which he has taken a leave of absence this year.

I have spent the past two years in Chicago, where in addition to my course work I enjoyed spending time with my sister, nannying for a family and sharing dinners and playing board games with a close group of friends and roommates.

This year I hope I can both be a servant to this community and learn and grow in my own understanding of what it means to be a pastor. I look forward to meeting you all.