Ashley Reed
Ashley grew up as a Pastor’s Kid in Northern California and moved quite a bit. She remembers trusting in Jesus at age 8 and by age 9 sharing her faith with a new church family at a local lake where she was baptized. She recalls looking out across the water and seeing smiling faces and knowing that this is the family of God and she gets to be part of it.
In 2004, she met Morgan and in 2008, they were married and she graduated with a Bachelors in Liberal Studies with the hopes of teaching in an elementary school classroom. From 2008 to 2012, they moved from California to Chicago, Dallas and then to Northern VA while he pursued his educational studies, but God led her down a different path in a vocation she’d never imagined - working in the financial industry in an administrative capacity. While her vocation has been amazing, she has been drawn to ministries and services that involve teaching and working with children.
Over the course of the years living in Northern Virginia, she experienced the Anglican tradition with various churches in the area and was first introduced to the Montessori-based program called Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (otherwise known as CGS). As a new mom in 2020, and helping start Corpus Christi Anglican Church, she took classes on the first of three levels of CGS from 2021 - 2023 while volunteering spring of 2022 to lead CGS for the church and in 2023, joining the team in a part-time capacity as a lead catechesist. She hopes to learn level 2 of CGS in the summer of 2023. One aspect of CGS that she loves is being a “chief listener,” and allowing the Holy Spirit guide the hearts and minds of young children as they explore the infancy narratives to the parables of the Kingdom of God and the wonder of being a sheep of the Good Shepherd. Having not grown up in the richness of liturgical worship, CGS has given her a greater appreciation for all that we say and do in our services.
When Ashley is not doing lesson plans or painting CGS materials, you can find her outdoors with her family on hikes, biking, swimming or in the garden. She loves large foamy oat milk chai latte and eating pad thai with her family and exploring new places.
If you are child-safety trained and interested in observing or assisting in our atrium - please reach out and connect with her at ashley@corpuschristianglican.org, she would love to have you join the team!