From North Carolina-Hunt Williams’ election as a bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina in 1990 meant he had an impact on the church he loved not only in the state but throughout the country.
Yet he was best understood in a more intimate setting, as the rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in uptown Charlotte, where he served for 27 years. There, he delivered sermons quoting both St. Paul and modern storyteller Garrison Keillor. He applied organizational skills at budget time by working numbers with pencil and paper, as ashes from his cigarette spilled on his black shirt.
And it was pastoring his devoted flock where Williams showed his true sense of his vocation. He always knew who needed him and where he should be, for instance with a family in a hospital room at 1 a.m. when a beloved father died, and back on their doorstep at 8 a.m. offering comfort.
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