The Rev. Rick Paulin

The Rev. Rick Paulin served as priest-in-charge of St. Saviours from May 2008 to April 2009. He was the priest for Christ Church Creston, which included St Anselm's Church in Boswell, Harrison Memorial Church in Crawford Bay and Riondel Community Church. The Rev. Rick married Marina with the Rt. Rev. Bishop John Privett officating. In 2009 he went to Summerland BC as interim priest.

Rick and Marina.

The son of a Royal Canadian Air Force member, Rick, as he likes to be called, was born at North Bay, Ontario, and grew up across Canada — on bases from Goose Bay, Labrador, to Victoria. However, his family did stay long enough at Clinton, Ontario, for him to get his teenage schooling. Post high school, he attended Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, graduating as an aerospace engineer officer (AERE).

After four years leave without pay for seminary studies, he served in the Canadian Air Force for five years as a Roman Catholic chaplain. His first post was boot camp chaplain in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.

Subsequently, as a chaplain until 1985 and therafter as a civilian priest, he served on Vancouver Island for ten years, in Invermere for five, and Kelowna for six. More recently he was based in Fort Simpson, NWT, where for two years he covered seven communities.

Rick spent six months in training as an Anglican priest in Kelowna. He brings to the parish a determination to praise and worship the loving God within the Anglican community; to journey with the parishioners in faith; and to reach and celebrate the faith.

He will be seen pursuing his calling around the Kootenays in his 1990 Miata sports car. He calls it his four-wheeled motorbike, remembering with some nostalgia the vehicle he once rode from Victoria to St Jean sur le Richelieu, Quebec to attend a retreat.

As well as serving God, Rick has a passion for playing the guitar and singing old songs.