Chris was born in Aberdeen, MS to an Episcopal priest and elementary school teacher. His family soon moved to Yazoo City and then out to Denver, CO following his father's calls in ministry. They returned to Jackson, MS while Chris was still in middle school and he graduated there from St. Andrew's and then Millsaps College with a BA in Religious Studies. After a year of working at the Duncan M. Gray Camp & Conference Center for the Episcopal Diocese, and two years of discernment in diocesan programs, Chris entered Virginia Theological Seminary in the fall of 2007. Graduating in 2010, Chris' first cure was in the MS Pine Belt at the Episcopal Church of the Mediator-Redeemer in Magnolia-McComb. Serving first as Deacon-in-Charge, then Priest-in-Charge and finally as Rector, Chris spent four years learning a great deal about the more practical side of parish ministry. During this time he also married his wife, Whitney Moore, who was serving at the time as the Youth Minister to St. Andrew's Cathedral in Jackson, MS. In early 2014 Chris accepted the call to serve as the Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Mississippi and he and Whitney moved to Oxford. After four wonderful years of working with the college students in Oxford, developing pilgrimages and community service projects, Chris found himself longing for the work of parish ministry. After a period of discernment, Chris entered into conversation with the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, MS and agreed to come and serve as their Priest. For the last four and half years, Chris and Whitney have been delighted to be a part of the Redeemer family, even to the point of doing their own bit of new member recruitment as they welcomed their first child, Caroline, last August.
