Ministry Team

Clergy Leadership

The Revd Thomas Blake,
Priest in Charge for a Time Certain

Father Blake began a three-year appointment at St Catherine’s on 1 December 2019. Over the course of these three years, he and the congregation are mutually and prayerfully discerning God’s will for the longer term.

Fr Blake studied Public Policy at Duke University and earned the Masters in Divinity at Virginia Theological Seminary. Ordained to the diaconate in 2000 and the priesthood in 2001, he previously served congregations in Maryland and Indiana.

The Revd Marla Wright Asson
Priest Adjunct

A bi-vocational priest, the Revd Asson has served as laboratory director for Renown Regional Hospital in Reno since 2020.

Born and raised in Alabama, she was ordained to the diaconate in 2011 in Huntsville, AL. As a deacon she served prison inmates, worked with hospice in skilled nursing facilities, and served as a chaplain to the sheriff’s department.

In 2013, her laboratory career took her Elko, NV, where she was ordained to the priesthood in 2018 and served for eighteen months as Rector of St Paul’s.

Lay Leadership

Kevin Goss,
Senior Warden, Vestry Class of 2022

Charlie Dickinson,
Junior Warden, Vestry Class of 2022

Georgia Tachoires,
Clerk, Vestry Class of 2024

Sally Dickinson,
Treasurer

Richard Curtis,
Vestry Class of 2024

Todd Kodet,
Vestry Class of 2023

Carol Lacy,
Vestry Class of 2024

Kris McCain,
Vestry Class of 2023

Kevin Murphy,
Director of Music Ministry

Lajuana Bryan,
Stewardship Leader