DISCIPLESHIP LEADER TEAM

And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19​

CCA’s Discipleship Leadership Team is excited to partner with parents in helping disciple and support students in a variety of ways. God calls us as Christians to be a community of believers that help build each other up and help us grow in our walk with Christ, and our team is eager to be a part of that here in the CCA Community. While all of the administrators and teachers at CCA are capable and often disciple students, the DLT have been called on to use their specific training and skillsets to be available to work with students as they grow in their relationship with Christ. No matter if a student is figuring out what their faith means to them, needs an extra caring adult to pray for them and their family, or are already strong believers that want to discuss taking their faith and leadership skills to the next level, the DLT is happy to assist in building up our students and our community.

BRYSON GRESHAM

Student and Family Ministry Director

ANNA BURROW

Student and Family Ministry Director

JENNIFER GERBER

Student and Family Ministry Director

PHILIP LEDBETTER

Student and Family Ministry Director

LACIE ROSE

Student and Family Ministry Director

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bryson gresham

Discipleship Coordinator

What church do you attend?
Highlands Baptist Church of Melissa

What are your hobbies?
Spending time with my family

What is your educational background?
Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Ethics from Dallas Christian College

What is your experience?
I’ve been coaching and discipling others since 2008

How did God call you to Christian education and how does that impact how you serve at CCA?
The Lord started me on this journey of coaching and discipling others in 2008 at a Christian school in Richardson, TX. Since that time, it’s been a calling I believe The Lord gave me to help make disciples and encourage others to do the same. It’s a privilege to serve The Lord, the families at CCA and to make disciples who live like Jesus!

AnnA Burrow

ACADEMIC ADVISOR, COUNSELOR, TEACHER

What church do you attend?
FBC Allen

What are your hobbies?
Reading and traveling

What is your educational background?
BA in English and Psych at Texas A&M, MSW at UT Arlington, and English Grad Certificate at Texas A&M Commerce

What is your experience?
Working in education and/ or counseling since 1999 and at CCA since 2008

How did God call you to Christian education and how does that impact how you serve at CCA?
I was a parent at CCA and began as a long term sub for English and history in 4th grade. I loved it, but at the time 4th grade was a self contained class, and I didn’t feel comfortable teaching math, and I was not a fan of the curriculum they were using. I prayed for an opportunity to open up because I had loved the experience so much, and at the end of the year the administration decided to reorganize upper elementary to more subject specific teachers and changed curriculum. I was asked to take on 4th and 5th grade English and history, and I had an amazing team of math and science coteachers that were opposite me. It was definitely a call from God that was out of my comfort zone, but I am so thankful I trusted him and found a passion for teaching and connecting with students and helping them grow academically and spiritually. Nine years later when a similar “out of my comfort zone” opportunity to move to high school happened, I was able to trust God and take on this new endeavor. He again was faithful in equipping me for the challenge he set before me, and working with high schoolers at CCA has been such an amazing blessing in my life.

JENNIFER GERBER

Jr. High BIBLE teacher

What church do you attend?
Life Fellowship

What are your hobbies?
Skiing, hiking, and managing my store in downtown McKinney

What is your educational background?
B.A. in English from Texas A&M, Certification in progress to be a Christian Life Coach (International Christian Coaching Institute)

What is your experience?
I started teaching in 1994. I have taught every grade 6-12 over the span of my career. I thought I was retiring in 2024, but God had other plans!

How did God call you to Christian education and how does that impact how you serve at CCA?
I thought God led us to CCA for my two children, who started here in 2014. However, the Lord soon made it very clear that it was just as much for ME as it was for them. From 2014 to 2024, I taught various grades of High School English, Creative Writing, and Entrepreneurship. In 2021, I started a prison ministry for inmates in the juvenile detention center in Gainesville, just north of DFW. Using that ministry, God revealed a new purpose for me that is more about discipling hurting teenagers than educating them in English/Language Arts. I am so excited to be back at CCA in a way that I can fulfill that calling here.

Philip Ledbetter

History Department Head & Houses Director

What church do you attend?
Hunter’s Glen Baptist Church

What are your hobbies?
Fencing, Archery, games, and boons

What is your educational background?
Graduated Oklahoma Baptist University with a bachelor’s in History in 2008.

What is your experience?
Started at CCA in 2008

How did God call you to Christian education and how does that impact how you serve at CCA?
I knew I wanted to be a teacher when I was in 10th grade and have been teaching Sunday School since I was 17. Over the course of college, God showed me through various ways that High School was where he wanted me, and then confirmed that in my early conversations with Sandy Hanson about coming to work at CCA shortly after graduating.

Lacie rose

elementary bible teacher

What church do you attend?
City Church Melissa

What are your hobbies?
Reading, spending time with family, serving with my church family, puzzles and traveling.

What is your educational background?
I earned a Bachelors of Science in Church Ministries with a specialization in counseling psychology, as well as an associates degree in Bible, from Southwestern Assemblies of God University in 2003.

What is your experience?
Since graduating in 2003, my husband and I have served in various church staff positions ranging from student ministry, college ministry and adult discipleship roles. Over the last 15 years, I have made mom my primary role but I have also served as nursery coordinator, pre-school teacher, elementary substitute teacher and volunteered in various children’s ministry roles.

How did God call you to Christian education and how does that impact how you serve at CCA?
With my children getting older, I have been prayerfully seeking further employment out side our home. My experience as a Christian preschool teacher, elementary substitute teacher and 60+ credit hours of bible and theology courses paired with my passion for family ministry makes this role at CCA a dream!