Katie Rush
Children’s Ministry Coordinator
Role
I am the Children’s Ministry Coordinator. My primary role is to oversee the planning and preparation of Sunday School lessons and materials for the nursery through fifth grade. I also collaborate with our Children, Youth, and Family Director to plan Whole Family events.
Church/Faith Background
I have a deep-rooted foundation in the Christian faith, having attended church with my family since birth. My spiritual journey began in the Evangelical Covenant tradition at Pilgrim Covenant Church and later transitioned into the Lutheran church, where my faith grew through high school. Throughout my youth, my parents modeled what it means to serve fervently in lay ministry, and they remain highly active in the church where I was confirmed.
In college, I was deeply involved in a nondenominational church, which was followed by a season in my twenties where I struggled to find a true home church. Even during that transition, I never took a break from drawing near to my Creator. Eventually, I found my way to Christ Church Denver via my husband, a lifelong Episcopalian.
Geographical moves
Born in Simsbury, Connecticut, I moved to Chesapeake, Virginia, at age nine before my family relocated to Dexter, Michigan, for my middle and high school years. I stayed in Michigan for undergrad (Go Blue!) then moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue an alternative teacher certification program. I spent five years teaching in D.C. while earning my Master of Arts in Teaching. It was there that I met my husband, Brett, a Colorado native. We married in September 2017 and relocated to his childhood neighborhood in Colorado in 2018.
Family connections
While our extended family is scattered all over the map, we are lucky to have my in-laws living just three blocks away. They are also active members at Christ Church Denver. The rest of our roots remain in the Midwest and South—my parents and brother are back in Dexter, Michigan, while my sister and her family are in Georgia and my sister-in-law and her family are in North Carolina.
Interests/hobbies
My hobbies are simple: whatever my children, Elden and Grace, are into! If I had my own way, you would find me in a barre class, hiking, cooking, and poring over the pages of children’s literature with a latte in hand.