The Venerable Jan Lamb
Deacon

Jan Lamb was ordained to the Diaconate in 2006. She has served at St. Luke’s Durham, Episcopal Campus Ministry Raleigh, Saint Andrews Haw River, and as the bishop’s chaplain. She currently serves as Archdeacon of the diocese and sits on the Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate. 

Jan holds a BA from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a MA from the University of Texas at Austin. Until her retirement in 2017, she taught students with special needs in Mississippi and at the Hill Learning Center in Durham.

She has two sons, John (Caroline) and Michael and two granddaughters, Ruth and Saro.

 The Rev. Polly Hilsabeck
Priest Associate

The Rev. Polly Hilsabeck and her husband, David, are active at St. Joseph’s, because worship is joyful and beautiful and its holy action within the larger and richly diverse Durham community is a way station of welcome and compassion. Polly took her background in biological sciences to seminary in Berkeley, California, and, following, was in the second wave of women ordained to the Priesthood. She served in parish, school, hospital and jail ministries in Bay Area, Central, and Southern California and in Hawai’i before coming to the Diocese of NC in 2005. Her debut novel American Blues was published Spring 2022.

Lachlan Hassman
Ministry Associate for Liturgy and Administration

A seminarian from the Diocese of Virginia, Lachlan came to Durham in the Summer of 2021 to begin study at Duke Divinity School. His academic interests include sacred space, architectural history and adaptive reuse. He is a member of the board of the Historical Society of The Episcopal Church.

Before beginning at Duke, Lachlan studied Architectural History and Middle Eastern languages and culture at the University of Virginia. In another life, he might have been a semitic-language philologist or a shepherd of dairy sheep.

At St. Joe’s, Lachlan works closely with the Vicar and lay leaders to manage the church’s operations. He plans our worship services and helps coordinate volunteers. He helps the Junior Warden care for the campus and oversees the church office.

In his free time, you might find Lachlan moonlighting as a hospital chaplain or taking care of his chickens and a very demanding cat. He also bakes, gardens, and builds large bookshelves for academics with impulse control issues.

Cambria Storms
Organist & Music Director

Cambria Storms is a musician and visual artist living, making, practicing, and performing in Durham. She's played the piano since before she can remember, and the pipe organ for almost as long performing with various instrumentalists, ensembles, choirs, vocalists, and collaborating with other multidisciplinary artists. Cambria's passion for the pipe organ has taken her to St. James Episcopal Church, West End United Methodist Church, St. Philip's Anglican Church, Trinity Episcopal Church and home to St. Joseph's. She also currently serves on the board for the Durham-Chapel Hill Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. When she's not on the organ bench, you can find her walking with her dog Blue along the Eno River, deejaying on a rooftop, or volunteering to pick up trash around town. Cambria gets the most excited about discussing poetry, photography, dance, and sharing in the glory of the liturgy at St. Joseph’s.

The Rev. Kelly Ryan
Deacon and Children’s Minister

Kelly has been part of the St. Joe’s community since fall 2022, when she began an internship as part of the ordination process. Kelly, who is trained as a catechist in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program, has served as the children’s minister since January 2023. Now as a deacon, Kelly will continue to serve at St. Joe’s and will also help the Bishops’ Office to equip congregations across the diocese in family and children’s ministry. Kelly also serves the diocese as a member of the reparations and restitution committee.

In her day job, Kelly works to strengthen the communication capacity of Lilly Endowment grantees in religion through the Evaluation and Communications Project at the Indianapolis Center for Congregations. From 2020 through June 2023, she facilitated a learning community of grantees as the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program. Prior to that, she spent 12 years as senior director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, overseeing its online learning resource Faith & Leadership, after working as a communications strategist and newspaper reporter. She has a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School.

Kelly is happiest when she is binge-watching TV with her teenage son, playing make-believe or games with her niece, asking questions, writing, accompanying people discerning vocation, visiting Bald Head Island, and wondering about God with children.

Hannah Flack
Children’s Minister

A lifelong Episcopalian and native of Jacksonville, FL. Hannah moved to Durham in August 2021 to start her M. Div. at Duke Divinity School. Before beginning at Duke, Hannah studied English & Spanish at Wofford College and served as the Director of Youth Ministry for 5 years at Christ Church Episcopal in Greenville, SC where she loved planning youth retreats and driving the 15 passenger mini bus.

In her free time, she likes to walk her golden retriever Bennett, explore new gluten free/ vegetarian restaurants in the triangle area, color-code her calendar, host friends on the porch at her house, and add items she has already done to her to-do list so that she can check them off.

Countess Authement
Breakfast Minister

Countess is a transitional Deacon from the Diocese of Western Louisiana. Countess started at Duke Divinity in 2021 to pursue a Master’s of Divinity.

In her free time, Countess enjoys boxing, hiking and reading. She has two rambunctious cats.

The Vestry

The vestry are elected representatives of the parish. The basic responsibilities of the vestry are to help define and articulate the mission of the congregation; to support the church’s mission by word and deed, to select the vicar, to ensure effective organization and planning, and to manage resources and finances.

CJ Surbaugh, Senior Warden

Issac Lund, Junior Warden

Jake Webb, Treasurer
Lauren Norton, Clerk

Paul Siceloff

Joel Marcus

Brooke Olmstead

Lacey Hudspeth

Jonathan Jones

George Brine

The Vestry

The vestry are elected representatives of the parish. The basic responsibilities of the vestry are to help define and articulate the mission of the congregation; to support the church’s mission by word and deed, to select the vicar, to ensure effective organization and planning, and to manage resources and finances.

CJ Surbaugh, Senior Warden

Issac Lund, Junior Warden

Jake Webb, Treasurer
Lauren Norton, Clerk

Paul Siceloff

Joel Marcus

Brooke Olmstead

Lacey Hudspeth

Jonathan Jones

George Brine