2026 VESTRY CANDIDATES
This year we have three candidates for vestry and three open seats. The link for the absentee ballot will be available on May 17 at 2pm and will remain open until 2pm on May 24. If you’re available on May 24 to vote in person at our Pentecost service, please submit your ballot that day.
Thank you for praying for the vestry candidates and the work of the vestry!
Nate Beck
josh moore
steven myles
Nathanael Beck
Thank you for accepting my candidacy for vestry. I’ve been asked to provide a spiritual biography, so here’s a bit about myself and my journey with the Lord:
I grew up the son of a Methodist pastor. My childhood spiritual formation was in the Wesleyan tradition and emphasized spiritual disciplines, care for the poor, and daily personal devotion and learning. Charitable outreach was the theme of my early encounters with the faith. Every Christmas morning, we would serve at the church’s soup kitchen for the homeless, and mission trips and local service projects peppered my youth. Once in college at Baylor University, I discovered the Anglican tradition in an ACNA church plant that met in a spare room at the Dr. Pepper Museum. There, I began receiving the Eucharist every Sunday (unlike the Methodist church, which is monthly) and received the sacrament of reconciliation for the first time. The experience of baring my sins without excuse to a priest with the authority to withhold forgiveness, and then receiving that forgiveness, marked my soul permanently.
However, I was not yet confirmed into the Anglican Church and after college I served at my dad’s church as an assistant youth director. It was at a Methodist charismatic conference that I first learned to love God. I had begun to realize that I knew about God but didn’t love Him. I eventually resigned myself to this, making the prodigal son’s request my own: “Make me as one of your servants.” After receiving prayer at the conference, I felt my heart changed and finally could love God: “No longer do I call you servants …but I have called you friends” and I was blessed to feel deeply the adoption of the Father.
Eventually, I moved to Dallas, Texas where Priyankaa and I were married and attended a Southern Baptist church together. I began volunteering in that community at a food bank and as a men’s counselor at a crisis pregnancy center. Yet, traditional Christianity called me back and I was confirmed into the ACNA in 2021. I attended a very high church (smells, bells, icons, rosary) Anglican parish where I served as an acolyte and on the vestry in a number of capacities, including outreach, managing different communications projects, and assisting with parish upkeep. Priyankaa stayed at the Southern Baptist church and we attended two different churches the rest of our time in Dallas. Our marriage was indispensable with maturing me as a Christian as I learned to love her as Christ loves the Church. Engaging charitably with her and the Southern Baptist home groups we continued to attend together was central to my adult formation, as much as the AngloCatholic spirituality I imbibed at the Anglican parish.
Priyankaa and I are blessed to be at Corpus Christi where both us have our spiritual needs met. As a nominee for the vestry, I ask for your prayerful discernment whether to elect me for this service. Thank you all and peace to you.
Joshua Moore
My faith has been the defining feature of my life. I was raised in Baptist churches as the son of a Baptist pastor. Yet, my experience of faith was not of an individual moment of conversion but rather of growing into faith. As an older child I made a public acknowledgement of faith and was baptized, but I do not remember a time when I did not know and accept the gospel.
As a college student, I attended a Wesleyan college and was there exposed to a much greater breadth of the Church as well as its history. This broadened my experience of the Church from what I came to realize had been a rather small and sheltered corner. I learned to see faith more broadly and to treat fellow Christians from different parts of the Church with love and curiosity rather than the suspicion I had often seen in my youth. In those same few years, I was first exposed both to a more structured and historically rooted liturgy and to Anglicanism specifically.
I began to see how beauty and truth can be intermingled in our worship in ways I had not known, how the words we say and pray together as a body can and do form us, and the power and importance they carry as a result. And during those years at college, my love of the Eucharist began along with the desire for it to be a regular and more frequent part of my life & worship. Finally, I was also blessed to meet the woman who would become my wife. Together, we walked the Canterbury Trail as we learned to love one another.
Since then, over the last sixteen years, I have worked at learning what it means to be an Anglican Christian and to lead others into being formed by a stream of Christianity that is still forming me. I have been shaped by weekly and annual rhythms of communion, feasts, and fasts, learning what they mean, where they come from, and how to best participate in them now. And I have taken joy in teaching others what I have learned, helping new and mature Christians to deepen their own faith and learn new disciplines and practices.
Steven Myles
My first real steps of turning faith into action was during my summer breaks from university. I took the opportunity to work with young kids in Southeast Alaska at a summer Bible camp. I believed myself to be wholly unequipped for the task ahead of me, and I prayed more earnestly than I had ever before, and those summers instilled in me a truth that has shaped the rest of my days. In my dependence on God, and not my own abilities, God revealed Himself in ways I had never witnessed. I carried that lesson into my first career as a missionary in Sudan and South Sudan.
I am confident God has more good works prepared for me to walk in, so I continue to step forward in faith, and I am excited for this opportunity to serve on the Vestry.
I married my wife Rebecca in 2013, and it was her influence that steered us towards Anglicanism. The first ACNA church we attended was Emmanuel Anglican Church in New York City, and I was immediately captivated by the liturgy and the Book of Common Prayer. I had developed this longing for a connection to the historical church, and a rhythm for the passing of seasons, so arriving at an Anglican church felt like stepping into the fulfillment of those desires.
Rebecca and I have 2 young sons, Shepherd and Ellison, and we are blessed and humbled to have the opportunity to care for and help shape these young men. From a day to day standpoint, I work with the National Park Service and manage their construction portfolio for the Washington DC area.
I was incredibly blessed to grow up with a family of believers - from grandparents on down. However, it wasn't until my sophomore year of high school, 2/28/1998, that I made a profession of faith. It was a winter camp at Word of Life Bible College in Upstate NY where the presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ elicited a visceral reaction - I walked to the front of that crowd and confessed my sin and earnestly sought His forgiveness.
Since that day, I have strived to abide in Christ, grow in my knowledge of Him and seek His will for my life. I have tasted and seen the power of God and how it can transform a human life and I have been blessed to witness that transformation in the lives of people around me.