Who we are.
The Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, (she/her)
M.T.S., D.A.S.
Lizzie has lived all over the world, with her boots now rooted in Austin, Texas where she is living her dream as the founding planter of Jubilee Episcopal Church. She is passionate about evangelism for a God who makes each of us for joy, which is why you might see her doing silly dances and talking about church history on Instagram & TikTok with her 60k followers.
Lizzie primarily grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and received her First Communion as a devout Catholic in the second grade. By the time she reached Middle School, her mother had led her family into her own calling to ministry, and Lizzie had the privilege (and, admittedly, challenge!) of watching her mother pursue ordination in the United Methodist Church, which culminated in her mother’s ordination as an Elder the same weekend Lizzie graduated high school. This makes Lizzie officially a second generation clergywoman and specifically, a clergywoman mama, and she delights in talking about motherhood, pregnancy, and reproductive justice from this lens of faith and leadership in the church.
A graduate from Mount Holyoke College (Summa cum laude), Lizzie brought a passion for intersectional feminism and queer theology to her studies at Duke Divinity School and Seminary of the Southwest. It was her time in both South Hadley, Massachusetts and Durham, NC that brought her into the Episcopal Church, and it was the Episcopal Church that brought Lizzie and her beloved spouse, Jonathan, to Texas. Prior to ordination, she worked in youth & children’s ministry and as a hospice chaplain, all while concurrently teaching art in bars and waiting tables. She was ordained in 2020, and as grateful as she is for her academic formation, she still swears most things she learned about being a priest she learned from 5+ years of working in the service industry and access to the arts in her public high school.
Her home is filled with love with her husband, The Rev. Jonathan McManus-Dail, their beloved daughter, and two mischievous cats.
Carly Green, (she/her)
Music Minister
Carly was born and raised in the San Antonio area, spending most of her childhood growing up in a small nearby town on a 13-acre plot surrounded by hay and cattle. Born into a family with a long lineage of musicians, Carly learned at an early age to interpret and process the world around her through music, cutting her teeth on the sounds of Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash. She began singing in church as a child whenever she could, and picked up the guitar around the tender age of ten.
By the time she was a teenager, Carly was regularly singing and playing guitar in church on a weekly basis. Though her foundational church experiences took place in a charismatic evangelical church tradition, Carly found community in the youth group at the United Methodist Church across the street from her school, and soon became a band leader there for her youth ministry.
After graduating high school, Carly attended Texas Lutheran University where she sang in the choir and served as a leader in campus ministry. The inter-denominational nature of church organizations on campus gave Carly the opportunity to lead music in a wide array of church traditions, enriching her appreciation for the nuances found within the larger community of faith. This would later lead Carly to partner with ministries serving the greater San Antonio and Austin areas, coming alongside various new church plants to help supply music.
Carly has led church music locally and internationally; in empty parking lots and on large stages; with beginner musicians and Grammy nominated musicians; by herself and with a full band. The one guiding principle that keeps her grounded in her purpose as a leader and musician is her belief that music touches our souls the way other mediums cannot, and there is a holy responsibility for ministers to provide an opportunity to connect with God through music in a way that is ethical, non-manipulative, and non-coercive. This guiding principle is largely what drew Carly to the Episcopal Church, and remains at the forefront of her convictions as she creates music.
Currently, Carly splits her time as a Music Minister for Jubilee Episcopal Church and a public school teacher. She loves trail mix, Topo Chico, and her local library.
Carly shares her home with her spouse and their two pugs, BG and Bayley.
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