Our Lady of Angels

Carissa Baldwin-McGinnis is an Episcopal priest serving the Episcopal Diocese of Texas as a church planter in the Near Northside of Houston. She earned her Master of Divinity from Seminary of the Southwest and loves contemplative prayer and a good dance party. Before being commissioned to start Northside Episcopal Church in 2019, Carissa served Episcopal congregations in Houston and Los Angeles. Her ministry is informed by her earlier work in human rights and faith-based community organizing, and her priority vow is strengthening the human family in Christ. She and her wife, Pam, are the proud parents of three extraordinary children and have one grandchild. In early adulthood Carissa would scribble and scrawl out her soul on any scrap of paper she could find. She aspires to teach and write in her later years of ministry.