The Reverend Jack Seymour
Deacon
Jack joined St. Paul & the Redeemer as a vocational deacon in 2003. He previously served in the Diocese of Springfield. He attended Chicago Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Divinity, and also holds an Advanced Certificate from the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. He recently retired as the CEO of the ReVive Center for Housing and Healing, an agency working to end homelessness. Jack has two children, Bobby and Kelen. He lives on the near Northwest Side of Chicago.

jack_seymour2000@yahoo.com | (312) 523-4348

Mark Bilyeu
Director of Music
Before joining the St. Paul & the Redeemer staff in 2022, Mark spent ten years in Minneapolis, where he served as the Director of Music at Calvin Presbyterian Church, Artistic Director of the South Metro Chorale, Associate Conductor of the Calliope Women's Chorus, and was the founding Artistic Director of Source Song Festival. Trained as a pianist who specializes in working with singers, he holds degrees from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and the University of Minnesota. He has a deep love for joyful community music-making, the Muppets, and his many houseplants.

bilyeu@sprchicago.org |(773) 624-3185 x223

Lindsey Strieter
Director of Children's Formation
Lindsey has 18 years of teaching experience, both as an elementary school teacher and as a higher education instructor at Loyola University Chicago and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to her work with children and families at SPR, she runs the UIC Children's Health and Wellness Academy, where young people learn about nutrition and exercise through hands-on experiences. Lindsey has expertise in curriculum building and implementation for a wide variety of age groups. With her family (Micah Prochaska and their children, Layla, Mattias, and Marek), she has been a member of SPR since 2015. In her spare time, Lindsey loves to stay active by running along the lakefront, playing volleyball with her daughter and soccer with her sons, and working out at the YMCA.

strieter@sprchicago.org

The Reverend Roger Ferlo
Priest Associate
Roger Ferlo is the president emeritus of Bexley Seabury Seminary, scholar in residence at the Newberry Library, and president of the Anglican Theological Review. Previously, Roger served on the faculty of Virginia Theological Seminary, was the rector of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village, and taught literature at Yale. He has been a parishioner at SPR since 2012. Roger is married to Anne Harlan, who is an established leader in this parish. They live in Hyde Park.

The Reverend KJ Oh
Priest Associate
KyungJa Oh (KJ) is an Emerita Professor in Practical Theology at Bexley Seabury Seminary, Chicago IL. She served as an assistant priest at St Paul and the Redeemer from 2017 to 2022. Before joining Bexley, KJ served as rector of The Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati and as vicar at St. Chad Episcopal Church in Loves Park, IL. KJ earned her MDiv from Seabury-Western Seminary and her DMin from Bexley Seabury Seminary. She currently lives in Hyde Park, IL, with her spouse, Melissa.

Patricia J. Lanfair
KidZone Teacher
Patti grew up on the South Side of Chicago and has been back in her original home of Hyde Park for 12 years. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and works for Northwestern Medicine as a philanthropy gift coordinator and finance support associate. Patti loves reading, writing, her family (especially her granddaughter Jameela), and her whippet dog Dakota, who is her shadow.

Ashley Lanfair
KidZone Teacher
Ashley has been an elementary school teacher for 12 years. She has taught kindergarten through 6th grade and currently teaches 4th-grade English/language arts and 1st-to-3rd-grade math intervention. She is a graduate of Knox College, Johns Hopkins University, and National Louis University. In her free time, she loves to read, do yoga, and adventure with her daughter Jameela.

Ariana Strahl
Staff Singer
Ariana is a soprano and arts advocate whose career has spanned opera, art song, and oratorio repertoire in the United States and Europe. Their work with arts communities seeks to foster a sense of belonging across creative endeavors. She is an avid runner, and fundraises for Chicago Women’s Health Center every year as a marathon participant. Ariana lives in Hyde Park with their wife and two cats, Rudy and Karl.

Wesley Krist
Staff Singer
Wesley grew up in Niceville, FL, and completed his undergraduate music studies at Stetson University in DeLand, FL. He has performed in choirs and as a tenor soloist at the 2022 Southern ACDA conference, the Florence International Choir Festival in Italy, and the FMEA conference. He moved to Chicago in 2022 to pursue his M.M. in Voice from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. When not singing, Wesley loves to read and hang out with his two cats, Nutmeg and Jason.