Who We Are
Welcome to Incarnation
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, San Francisco, is a welcoming, inclusive community where people come to be fed from the riches of God's love and grace. We live and share the Good News of Jesus Christ through worship, education, fellowship, pastoral care, and service to the world.
The church is located in San Francisco's Sunset district, and worship services are normally offered in both English and Chinese. Our facility is wheelchair accessible, and assistive listening devices are available upon request.
We commit ourselves to affirming lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and welcoming them into this Christian community.
Staff
San Francisco is home -- and always has been. Tom was born and raised in the city, the eldest of three children in an active Catholic family in the Sunset District. He attended Stuart Hall for grade school and Saint Ignatius College Preparatory for high school -- Go Cats! -- where a Jesuit immersion program first opened his eyes to the city's homeless community, the Mission District, and the people who fall through the cracks. That experience planted a seed.
At UC Berkeley, Tom earned a degree in Religious Studies, spending those years wrestling with big questions about faith, family, and belonging. It was at Berkeley's Episcopal Campus Ministry that he found a community where his whole family -- and all families -- were genuinely welcome. He crossed the bay to seminary at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he also completed his Clinical Pastoral Education at Stanford Hospital. That CPE year deepened his pastoral instincts in ways that still shape how he shows up for people in crisis today.
Over the course of nearly three decades, Tom has served in nine parishes across the Bay Area and Southern California -- from the blue-collar port neighborhoods of San Pedro to the rolling hills of Orinda, from the close-knit community of Ross to the vibrant, activist congregation of St. John's in Oakland, and most recently as a Youth and Family Minister at St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco. In each place, he found the same thread: ordinary people, remarkable grace.
Now he is home in the Sunset again -- this time as Priest-in-Charge of Church of the Incarnation, a bilingual English-Chinese Episcopal parish just blocks from where so much of his story began. What drew him here was simple: the people. The warmth and compassion of this community -- half Anglo, half Chinese, wholly Episcopal -- have called him to walk alongside them, support them, and grow with them in faith.
Tom is married to the Rev. Krista Fregoso, an Episcopal priest serving a parish in Walnut Creek. Together they share their home with one rambunctious rescue pup, Delilah, adopted through the Milo Foundation.
It is a privilege to be back in the neighborhood. Tom looks forward to meeting neighbors new and old.