Mary grew up in Texas, attending St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she lived for seventeen years, working as a Youth Minister, Director of Christian Education, and priest. Mary Luck and Mark Stanley were married in 1989. Sponsored for ordination by the Episcopal Diocese of California, Mary went to seminary at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, graduating in 1997 with a Master of Divinity Degree. Mary was ordained priest in 1997 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and then served as Assistant Rector at two Bay Area churches. Mary and Mark were blessed with the birth of their twins, Jack and Hannah, in 1999. The family moved to Baltimore in 2004 so Mark could begin working as the Rector of St. Paul’s Church. In 2006, Mary joined the staff at St. Paul’s and is currently serving as Co-Rector. With thirty years of experience developing ministries in the Episcopal Church, Mary says, “We cherish people so they will know they are cherished by God.”