Church of Our Saviour

Priest: Rev. Malia Crawford

Reverend Malia Crawford joined Church of Our Saviour in November 2011, and along with her partner Amy and adopted son Isaiah, lives in the COS rectory. She previously served as curate at Grace Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts, from 2008 to 2011. Malia graduated from MIT with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics in 1996, went on to receive her master’s of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2005, and shortly thereafter joined the Peace Corps. Malia’s passions include welcoming newcomers, pastoral care, children, Christian formation, and community involvement and outreach.

Music Director: Dr. Thomas Kingston

Tom has been the organist and choirmaster at COS since 1995, when he and wife, Sue, moved back to Massachusetts from Washington, DC. In daily life, Tom is the interim Superintendent of Schools for the Belmont Public Schools as well as a member of the faculty of the School of Education at Boston University. He has been a church organist and choirmaster since college days and holds the adjudicated Service Playing Certificate from the American Guild of Organists. The COS choir is a loyal group of a half-dozen singers who rehearse Sunday mornings before the service. Complementing the choir are occasional soloists and instrumentalists both from the congregation and from professional ranks for special services like Easter morning.

Sunday School Coordinator: Natalie Vanatta

Natalie comes to COS from Prairie Village, Kansas. Natalie moved to Boston in August 2011 to be a Micah Intern for the Life Together program through the Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts. The program focuses on placing college graduates in various social justice jobs while at the same time having the interns live together and learn about intentional communities. Natalie’s work site placement is as the Academic Coordinator for the B-READY afterschool program at St. Augustine and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in lower Roxbury. Before moving to Boston, Natalie was the program coordinator at an Episcopal summer camp in Kentucky, a parish-based youth minister at a small parish in Wamego, Kansas, a campus ministry peer minister at her college, a summer intern for the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas youth program (4 years), and an avid adult volunteer at youth events all over the diocese of Kansas. Natalie has been through many church-based youth trainings (including the Safe Church training) as well as some various other youth worker trainings. Natalie loves to spend time with her friends and family, play the guitar, go to movies, and explore everything Boston has to offer.

Parish Administrator: Helen Maxwell

Helen has been the Parish Administrator at COS since September 2009. In July 2009, she and her remaining at-home family moved to Arlington from Ohio, where she was employed by large corporations in the manufacturing and financial industries. Since moving to Arlington, Helen has acquired knowledge of the community and its resources. She uses this information to cheerfully aid all who contact COS for assistance. In her personal time, Helen likes to spend time with her family, sew, and volunteer in the community, including making costumes for her children’s school plays and chaperoning school dances.