New Rector Installation-The Rt. Rev. Fraser Lawton
Saturday, September 28, 2019, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
God Willing and the People Consenting
The Right Reverend Dr. George R. Sumner
Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas
will institute
The Rt. Reverend Fraser W. Lawton
as
Rector of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church
800 North Johnson
Mineola, Texas
in
A Celebration of a New Ministry
on
Saturday, the 28th of September
Two Thousand and Nineteen
three-thirty o'clock in the afternoon
Your prayers and presence are requested.
Clergy: Cassock and Surplice, White Stole
Reception Following
Bishop Fraser Lawton was born in Saskatoon into a Christ-centered Anglican home. His family moved to Alberta when he was 8 years old, and he has continued to live there, except for his university years. He was blessed with a wide variety of church experiences through his childhood, including the influence of the 1970’s charismatic movement in North American Anglicanism. He felt a call to ordained ministry at a young age, and entered the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad in Saskatoon immediately after completing a Bachelor of Science from the University of Saskatchewan.
He was ordained Deacon in 1993 and priest in 1994 and has served his entire ordained ministry in the Diocese of Athabasca. He served in three parishes, with the majority of the time at St. Thomas’, Fort McMurray. St Thomas’ was a non-traditional church in many ways, open to the active expression of gifts of the Spirit, contemporary worship and new or different ways of expressing the gospel.
In the last few years as rector, Bishop Fraser and his wife Veronica led the youth ministry in the parish, and were delighted to see amazing spiritual growth and the emergence of the gifts and leadership of the young people.
Bishop Fraser has served on the College Council for Emmanuel and St. Chad, Council of General Synod, Province of Rupert’s Land Executive, every General Synod since Montreal, and Provincial Synod. He has also been an advisor for Women’s Aglow (now Aglow) and has led various workshops including six Anglican Renewal Ministries clergy and lay leadership training events. He was a member of the ARM Board for two years.
In 2010, the Lawtons left Fort McMurray and moved to Peace River, where he was consecrated bishop and began this new ministry. Fraser and Veronica have four children. Fraser is a sports fan, enjoys reading and puttering (on rare occasions) in his workshop.