God willing, the Right Reverend Alex Whitcomb Cameron, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, will ordain Scott McCord Means to the Sacred Order of Priests and Katherine Rose Beech Franker, Michele Kathleen Gebhart, Bryce Tyler Lowe, and Jill Noel Shreve to the Order of Deacons on Saturday, the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-six at ten o’clock in the morning.
The service will take place at Trinity Anglican Seminary‘s Trophimus Center, located at 823 Maplewood Ave, Ambridge, PA 15003. The Rev. Lauren Scharf, chair of our Commission on Ministry, will preach.
All are invited to the ordination service and a reception to follow. Clergy are asked to vest and process, wearing red stoles.
Parking Information
There is a small parking lot at the Trophimus Center, which you can enter from 9th Street, between Maplewood Avenue and Kennedy Drive.
An additional parking lot is available at Trinity Anglican Seminary at 311 11th Street, Ambridge, PA 15003, and another at Park Road Park off Park Rd. between 6th and 7th Streets. Street parking is available on Merchant Street. The residents of Maplewood Avenue have asked us to avoid parking on that road.
Scott Means
Scott is a life-long Pittsburgher, the happy husband of Peggy, and proud father of Molly. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Mechanical Engineering before meeting Jesus and discerning a call to ministry.
Scott has been blessed by God to be able to work in full-time ministry for the past 10 years, serving in hospice chaplaincy, with Light of Life Rescue Mission, and with Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship.
Currently, Scott is serving as a chaplain for Asbury Heights Retirement Community in Mt. Lebanon, PA.
During this past year as a transitional deacon, he had the privilege of serving as deacon with both Reconciliation Anglican Church in Penn Hills and Grace Anglican Church in Mt. Washington.
Katherine Franker
Michele Gebhart
Michele is a lifelong resident of Butler County. She currently works in the Butler County Planning Commission, where she assists with the Recycling and Farmland Preservation programs.
She lives on her parents’ property, where she raises chickens, horses, and one incredibly spoiled cat. Raised in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, Michele first felt a call to ministry while a member of the Wesley Student Fellowship in State College, PA. She joined the Anglican Church in 2021 and is honored to serve at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Butler.
Bryce Lowe
A Christian since birth, Bryce powerfully encountered the gracious, redeeming love of Jesus Christ through a local Anglican parish while in college. This one-way, cruciform love of Jesus reached him in his deepest place of need and led him to discern Anglican orders.
Bryce loves studying Scripture, praying with the Book of Common Prayer, and seeing the way that the proclamation of the gospel through word and sacrament absolves the sinful, relieves the weary, and comforts the afflicted.
Bryce lives in Grove City, PA, with his wife Katherine, one-year-old son Dane, and is joyfully expecting their second child. He is a graduate of Grove City College and Trinity Anglican Seminary.
Jill Shreve
Jill, a native Texan who met Jesus just after she turned 18, arrived in Pittsburgh on Memorial Day 2025 with her husband Erik and two Frenchies, Opal and Edith.
Since arriving, she’s served at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh and is super excited to continue doing so after ordination.
Prior to Pittsburgh, Jill (and Erik) served at St. Luke’s Medical District in Dallas, where she discerned her vocational diaconate call. Jill has been teaching high school for 15 years. This year, she’s teaching AP Literature, Honors American Literature, and freshman English at Central Catholic High School. In addition to teaching, Jill’s ABD in a Ph.D. Literature program at the University of Texas, Dallas. She’s currently revising her dissertation on Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy and plans to defend this fall!
When she isn’t serving, teaching, or revising, Jill loves visiting new coffee shops with Erik, snugging Opal and Edith, running road races, assembling jigsaw puzzles, reading southern Gothic literature, and meeting new people—she can’t wait to meet you!