Welcome to The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Punta Gorda, Florida. We hope you will make us your Church home. Our Priest in Charge, since June 2010, The Rev. Roy Tuff, brings years of experience in church, school, and business settings to the Good Shepherd community. He and wife, Maria (who teaches at Good Shepherd School) have three grown children.

Father Roy's family moved from MN to Fl with the family newspaper business in 1988. His love of sacred choral music brought them to Trinity by the Cove in Naples Florida in 1994. He entered the Diocese of Southwest Florida's discernment process for ordination in 1997, earned a B.A. from Florida Gulf Coast University in May of 2000, and received his Masters of Divinity from The School of Theology at the University of the South in May 2003.

Prior to coming to Good Shepherd, he served as Chaplain at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton, assisted at Christ Church, Bradenton where he was ordained a priest in 2003, and has worked in many parishes in the Dioceses as supply clergy. My email address is tuffroy@gmail.com and my direct phone number is 941-467-4733.