Our Clergy
Father Roy Tuff
Rector
Our Rector, since June 2010, The Rev. Roy Tuff, brings years of experience in church, school, and business settings to the Good Shepherd community. He and wife, Maria have three grown children.
Father Roy's family moved from MN to FL with the family newspaper business in 1988. His love of sacred choral music brought them to Trinity by the Cove in Naples Florida in 1994. He entered the Diocese of Southwest Florida's discernment process for ordination in 1997, earned a B.A. from Florida Gulf Coast University in May of 2000, and received his Masters of Divinity from The School of Theology at the University of the South in May 2003.
Prior to coming to Good Shepherd, he served as Chaplain at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton, assisted at Christ Church, Bradenton where he was ordained a priest in 2003, and has served in many parishes throughout the Diocese as supply clergy.
Contact Father Roy Tuff by e-mail at tuffroy@gmail.com
Rev. Dr. Stanley Dull
Assisting Priest
Father Dull was born and raised in Midland, Michigan. He married his high school sweetheart, Carol. They raised five children and celebrated forty-four years of marriage before Carol's death in 2005.
He received a B.S. degree from Central Michigan University, majoring in Psychology and Education. He was also certified in remedial reading. Father Dull holds a Masters of Divinity degree from the Philadelphia Divinity School, graduating in 1974. He received a Masters in Counseling and a PsyD. in Clinical Psychology from Immaculata University. Fr. Dull has held several different positions in the mental health field, both in Pennsylvania and Florida, including the Charlotte Correctional Institution and the Charlotte Behavioral Health Center.
He began his ministry serving as an Administrative Assistant to the Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. He became Priest-in-Charge of the Church of the Ascension, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania where he served for twenty-five years. Additionally, he taught English in the local high school, retiring after thirty-four years in education. After the move to Florida, he served as the Rector at the Church of the Epiphany in Cape Coral for six years.
Rev. Canon Patricia Powers
Assisting Priest
The Rev Canon Patricia Powers retired in 2012 from St. Nathaniel’s Church in North Port, Fl. where she served as Rector for 12 years.
Before coming to Florida, she was a missionary to Brazil for 23 years. She began her ministry in Brazil as a Volunteer in Mission and then as an appointed missionary from the US National Episcopal Church and the Order of the Daughters of the King. In 1986 after completing Seminary in Brazil and the United States, she was ordained.
Ministries while in Brazil were in three areas. The first area, education, administrator of an elementary school, professor of theology, Dean of the Southwest Seminary in Porto Alegre. The second, Expansion of the Church, Director of the National Department of Mission, creation of the Missionary
Diocese of Brasilia, and the Missionary District of the Northwest of Brazil. The third, Pastoral, Rector of several parishes and start-up missions, Dean of the Cathedral of the Resurrection, Brasilia, work with women, street children and the poor. She continues to work with the Bishop of Brasilia as the Missionary Canon for International Relations.
Rev. Karen Binding
Assisting Priest
Rev. Binding was originally a nurse, graduating in 1966 with her RN in Winnipeg. She went into Seminary at St. John’s College in 1977 and was Deaconed Epiphany 1981 and Priested May 25, 1982. Her home Diocese is Rupert’s Land, south-central Manitoba. She has worked in several parishes, then was Rector of St. Mark’s Winnipeg for 16 years. She and her husband, Bob, lived and worked in Winnipeg but now live in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, northwest of Winnipeg. They have three children. Rob, Dave, and Kathy. They also have 2 granddaughters, Anika and Eliza.
They bought a home in Maple Leaf in 2003 & spend their winters in Florida.
