The St. Anne's staff is skilled, dedicated, passionate and fun. Read a bit about each staff member below.
David Allen, Minister of Music
David was born and raised near Manchester, England. David was well known as a boy chorister. He won many music festivals and was a regular participant in courses run by the Royal School of Church Music. He sang in the choir at Coventry Cathedral. As a professional musician he found his way to London where he spent many years as a music director, composer and conductor. He conducted the BBC Radio orchestra and later entered the world of musical theatre. He was the music director at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane before becoming the music supervisor for a Swiss production company bringing Broadway musicals to Europe. He met his wife, Susan, in New York when she was cast in the European tour of “Oklahoma!” After moving to the U.S. in 1993 David was hired as a tenor with the men and boys choir of the National Cathedral. He later became the music director at Washington Plaza Baptist Church and then St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Burke Virginia, before arriving at St. Anne’s in 2000. David brings to St. Anne’s his love of traditional Anglican music as well as his gifts as a composer and contemporary pianist.
Peg Brown, Parish Administrative Assistant
Chances are that Peg Brown is the first person you will meet as you walk into the Parish Office. You can tell her desk by the frogs--peaking out of pencil holders, supervising from the top of her monitor, anchoring a stack of large mailing envelopes. Peg has been accumulating frogs on staff for over 10 years; she has been a member of St. Anne’s since 1982. Peg produces all of the church bulletins and the monthly newsletter. She is responsible for parish records, maintains the membership database, orders supplies, argues with office equipment, and is most likely the voice at the other end of the line whenever you phone the church. She has numerous volunteers who help in the office regularly as well as volunteers who help with collating/folding all those bulletins and newsletters.
Born in Gunnison Colorado, Peg graduated from Western State College in Gunnison with a BA in science. She has lived in Reston since 1979 and has a large, extended family. Nick Brown, her husband and also a St. Anne’s parishioner, is a retired environmental scientist, although “retired” might not be appropriate for someone who spends as much time as he does volunteering at Reston Interfaith and being a full time baby sitter for grandsons, two year old Ashton and seven year old Stryder. Peg’s older daughter, Rini, is married to Mark Segar and lives in North Carolina; her younger daughter, Arwen, is married to Chris Tinker and has the two boys: Stryder and Ashton. They live in Reston with Peg and Nick.