Born in New York, David grew up in Dallas, where he attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a church-affiliated prep school that introduced him to the Episcopal Church. He went from there to Harvard, where he concentrated in the study of religion and grew close to the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Episcopal monastic community that helped form his prayer life and spirituality. After graduating in 1983, he taught at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island for three years and began the ordination process in the Diocese of Rhode Island. He studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, completing his Master of Divinity degree in 1989. For the next five years he worked as Associate Rector of Christ Church in Westerly, Rhode Island, where he fell in love with and married his wife, Lori Ann. David then served as Rector of St. Luke's Church in Worcester, Massachusetts for eleven years. He began his tenure at Church of Our Saviour in September of 2005. He and Lori Ann have two children, Aidan and Emma.

An Episcopalian since childhood, Mary was raised in West Des Moines, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State in 1977 with a BA in Recreation Management, she was employed as a Girl Scout Field Executive staff member and Summer Camp Director until 1980.  For the next 22 years she held a variety of leadership roles overseeing Satellite Systems for the Air Force, including space systems budget, officer training and satellite surveillance.  Mary received a Master's Degree from Webster University in Management in 1985.  Moving all over the United States and overseas, she was active in the Episcopal Church wherever she lived.  Since 1989 her primary residence was in Northern Virginia where she entered the Diocese of Virginia's ordination process.  After retirement from the Air Force, she entered Virginia Theological Seminary, completing a Master of Divinity degree in spring 2005.  She served as assistant to the vicar at St. Patrick's Anglo-Vietnamese parish in Annandale, Virginia before being called as the Assistant Rector of Church of Our Saviour in January 2006.  Mary has traveled extensively including missions in Panama, Honduras and S.E. Asia.