For as long as she can remember, Catherine has been drawn to international cultures and serving vulnerable communities. The daughter of missionaries and pastors, she has participated in missions and ministry most of her life. While studying Education and Spanish at UNC Chapel Hill, she spent two summers serving in Mexico. After graduation, she taught Spanish and ESOL (K–12), founded and led a fair trade non-profit in partnership with Ten Thousand Villages, and trained as a Spiritual Director. She spent many years as the Director of Discipleship for her church, where she trained leaders, led retreats, and created discipleship resources for the wider local church. Her main focus, however, was in developing communities for discipleship and spiritual formation; she ultimately oversaw the formation and growth of more than 40 small groups. 

After discerning a call to ordination, she earned a Masters of Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and now serves as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic alongside her husband, Chris, who serves as bishop. She brings decades of church leadership experience and commitment to missions to her work partnering churches with Five Talents. Catherine is committed to helping build spiritually healthy communities through wholeness in Christ. In her free time, she loves hiking, travel, time with friends, shelling the beach, and family time with her husband and three grown children.

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