Lainie Allen, St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth; Corrie Cabes, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller; Leslie Guinn, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Granbury; and Maddie Hill, All Saints’, Fort Worth, will be ordained into the Sacred Order of Deacons at 4 pm on Saturday, November 23, at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Fort Worth. Bishop Scott Mayer will ordain the candidates, celebrate, and preach. There will be a reception in the parish hall after the service.
The Ordinands
Lainie Allen
Lainie Allen was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. Allen got a BA in both Psychology & Sociology, with a minor in music from Lee University (Cleveland, TN); and MA in Education from Point Loma University (San Diego) and an M.Div from Perkins School of Theology at SMU (Dallas). Her certification is in Spiritual Formation & Direction from CFDM.
Her home parish is St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth. She is now at St. Alban’s, Theatre Arlington.
She and her husband, Daniel, met in college and married upon graduation. They later began a nonprofit doing leadership and spiritual formation with a focus on Emerging Adults. This work took them from Los Angeles to east Tennessee, and then to Charlottesville, VA, before moving to Dallas in 2011 to begin seminary at Perkins School of Theology at SMU. While completing a certification in spiritual direction and formation in 2006, Allen experienced her “call” to the priesthood. She and Daniel have two adult daughters, their significant others, and three grandsons, all in Portland, OR.
Corrie Cabes 
Corrie Cabes was born in Bethany, OK, graduated from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX and is a rising senior in the master of divinity program at Seminary of the Southwest. She serves weekly at Christ Episcopal Church in Cedar Park, TX as a seminary intern. Cabes is married to Richard Cabes, an IT services manager, and they have two children, Clay, 17, and Olivia, 13. She loves her friends and family, music, and her stripey dog Lil.
In the Diocese of Fort Worth, she was director of Christian education at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller. Cabes helped create intergenerational ministries such as Service Sunday and City Week, a yearly intergenerational mission trip to Union Gospel Mission to connect teens and adults of St. Martin’s with the folks they served as well as First Sundays, a monthly worship service where children and teens served alongside adults, leading prayers of the people, serving as lectors, and performing worship music. She has served on the diocesan Executive Council and Episcopal school committee.
During seminary, Cabes was chosen as the 2018 Seminary of the Southwest recipient of the St. John the Divine Entrepreneurial Leadership scholarship and attended the Preaching Excellence Program at Virginia Theological Seminary in 2019. She also has been a two-year recipient of the Master’s Fund scholarship through the International Order of the Daughters of the King. Cabes was the oncology chaplain for the summer, ministering to patients, families, and medical staff at at Seton Hospital in 2018.
In August 2019, Cabes walked the Jonathan Daniel’s pilgrimage in Selma, AL, with fellow seminarian, Andrew Brislin (Diocese of Alabama), the Rev. Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiakoski, and the Rev. Dr. Jane Patterson. Art and photography from the pilgrimage will be incorporated into a stations-of-the-cross service (held at the seminary in February 2020) to reflect on the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and 70’s, and to inspire continued participation in racial reconciliation.
Leslie Guinn
Leslie Guinn was born and raised in Rochester, New York. She attended Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and graduated with a B. A. in sociology and psychology. She was hired as a flight attendant for United Airlines where she met her husband, David. In 1978, they first became involved with a children’s home in Chiapas, Mexico, moved by Matthew 25: 31-46. Guinn has been on the Board of Directors for more than 30 years and currently serve as Vice-President.
She has been active in lay ministry for more than 40 years. She served on vestry of four different churches, twice as senior warden. She has been a lector, lay reader, Eucharistic Minister and led children’s education. She had been a Eucharistic Visitor. She is an Education for Ministry (EfM) mentor. She served on the Steering Committee that helped prepare this diocese for its reorganization in the wake of the departure of a bishop in 2008. She has served as lay representative for the Southwestern deanery and representative to Executive Council. She actively began her discernment for ordained ministry in 2009. She had a Master of Divinity from Brite. She has been a pastoral care assistant at Good Shepherd in Granbury while also leading a women’s study group. She is currently serving an internship at St. Luke’s, Stephenville.
Maddie Hill
Maddie Hill is a candidate for Holy Orders sponsored by All Saints,’ Fort Worth. In 2016, she graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she co-founded a small, downtown theater company. After graduation, she spent a year in the Episcopal Service Corps in Pennsylvania. While in ESC, she started a Godly Play program at the cathedral and served at an inner city educational nonprofit. Her plays have been performed in New York, Texas, Mexico, and London. Her nonfiction has appeared in journals and textbooks, including most recently the Yale Letters Journal. She is a senior at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale where she is Senior Chapel Minister.