Tom and Esther Bream

Tom and Esther met when studying at Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin. They first discovered each other’s love for music while rehearsing the school’s production of the HMS Pinafore, and soon were playing violin and piano duets and traveling to Milwaukee to see symphony performances. From their youth, both Tom and Esther have involved themselves with music through individual music lessons, participation in choirs and orchestras, and playing or singing in stage productions. Both Tom and Esther studied music in college but graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees in fields other than music.  After college, Tom was commissioned in the Air Force, and moved to Texas, where Esther joined him after they married the following year. Since then they have enjoyed serving the churches they have attended around the world in various ways, but especially through music. Both grew up serving the church in this capacity, and delight to hear God’s people raise their voice in song. In 2023, the USAF brought Tom and Esther to the Washington DC area, where they began attending Corpus Christi Anglican and further grew in their love for the Church’s music and ancient forms of worship. They pray God blesses their service at Corpus Christi Anglican Church. Tom and Esther enjoy skiing, traveling, and visiting museums with their three boys.  

Ivory Mae Casten

Ivory was born and raised in the Philippines. She attended a Catholic school for her primary and secondary education and first became involved in the church by joining the school choir. In 2015, she was introduced to and joined religious youth groups, where she developed a stronger relationship with Jesus and discovered her desire to serve. Eventually, she became a member of the worship team and the creative team. Her love for God and His people continued to grow.

In 2021, Ivory migrated to the United States. She then started working as a front desk administrator at a daycare. Deep inside, she knew that her heart had longed for an opportunity to use her creative and administrative gifts to serve God’s people in the church. God is truly wonderful as He led her to Corpus Christi Anglican Church. 

Whenever Ivory has spare time, she enjoys gaming, watching Anime and K-dramas, cooking with her dad, and thrifting (And sleeping too, haha!). She also loves cats, journaling, lettering, painting, dressing up, karaoke, and, of course, Filipino food.

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! 

Fr. Morgan Reed

A native of Northern California, Morgan came to Christ as a teenager and was very involved in youth and college ministry. Sensing a call to ordained ministry, he moved to Chicago and attended the Moody Bible Institute where he graduated with a degree in pastoral ministry. There he developed an academic interest in ancient Semitic languages and shortly thereafter attended Dallas Theological Seminary with the hopes of becoming a professor of Hebrew and Syriac literature while he continued to serve weekly in a local youth ministry.

While in Dallas he discovered the importance of reading the writings of the ancient church as well as the wholeness and health that can be found in the historic liturgy of the church (i.e., how the church has worshiped). He and his wife, Ashley, moved to Arlington, VA in 2012 where he began attending the Catholic University of America where he completed his PhD in Hebrew and Syriac studies. Over the last seven years in Northern Virginia, God confirmed his call to pastoral ministry and he was ordained as a Priest in the Anglican Church in North America in 2017. After helping plant Incarnation Anglican Church in South Arlington, God called Morgan to begin a new church plant in 2020 that would serve Franconia, Kingstowne, and Springfield. Springfield feels like a providential homecoming for the Reeds because God has called them to the place where Ashley’s grandparents lived and where her mother was raised for a time. Morgan loves hanging out around a fire pit, scoping out local coffee shops and breweries, gardening, cooking something delicious, hiking, going on long walks, and most recently, fishing.