Chavon Barry

Chavon Barry grew up on Vancouver Island. She attended a Christian school from K-12 and when she was fourteen her parents became pastors of a Vineyard church.  

She dove into her faith young (cue Steven Curtis Chapman’s song “Dive”) and was baptized at twelve years old in a hot tub in her church's dusty parking lot. It wasn’t everything she expected. On the way down, her head hit the side of the tub and, over the following decades, her faith would often feel more like a desert parking lot than a rushing river. 

Ann Lamott writes in her book Traveling Mercies, “My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew.” 

Lambrick Park Church is one of these round and green places for Chavon. In 2017, Chavon and her husband Joshua joined Rooted, a church-wide bible study program, which transitioned into a small group. Chavon found a safe place to wrestle with her faith and doubt. A place to land when hard circumstances were too much to carry alone. Lambrick held her in prayer and community and God remained near. 

Since then, God has continued to move in Chavon's life. She has an appetite for studying scripture, interceding in prayer, and building authentic community. You might have also seen her teaching Sunday School; editing Collected Magazine; speaking in both Lambrick Park's summer preaching series; and most recently, writing and co-directing two Christmas productions at Lambrick. She is a teacher at Campus View Elementary and is the mom to three boys Clark, Leo, and Felix.