Rev. Will Montgomery

Will Montgomery has served in the Virginia Annual Conference for 23 years. He was ordained a Deacon in 1996 and an Elder in 1999. He began as an associate pastor at Heritage United Methodist Church in the Lynchburg District before serving Zion United Methodist Church on the Charlottesville District and Trinity United Methodist Church in Smithfield, Virginia. In 2011, Will returned to Heritage as the lead pastor and then was appointed in June 2016 to Centreville.

Will grew up in Farmville, Virginia, in a family of educators. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1993 and from Duke Divinity School in 1996. That same year he married Elizabeth, and they have been married for 23 years. Elizabeth is a Registered Nurse working in ICU at INOVA Fairfax. They have three children: Matthew 19, Maggie 16, and Lucy 14.

Rev. Geitra Mickelson

Geitra Mickelson is a life-long United Methodist who has joyfully served the church in a variety of capacities. Before she answered God’s call to pastoral ministry, she was active in worship planning, music ministries, children and youth activities, and Stephen Ministry. Most recently, she served as an associate pastor at Galilee United Methodist Church in Sterling, VA, where she focused primarily on worship design and community outreach.

An Ohio native, Geitra received her Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. She was also certified and licensed to teach secondary English and Theater, but became involved in arts management instead. After working for the Akron Symphony Orchestra, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center, she took some time off to raise her family alongside her husband, Neil.

Geitra and Neil attended high school together, married in 1998, and initially resided in Long Beach, CA, where Neil was stationed as a U.S. Air Force officer at Los Angeles Air Force Base. Three years later, the military relocated them to Annandale, VA. They moved to Herndon in 2004, where they have been ever since, and Neil is now a Principal and Program Manager at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Together, they’ve been blessed by their three children. Their twin sons Adrian and Gabriel attend Langston Hughes Middle School and enjoy computer programming, arts, and playing piano and drums. Their daughter Amelia starts her junior year at South Lakes High School in the fall. She enjoys creative writing, playing piano, and is very active in choir and a capella groups.

Geitra answered her call to ministry while at Sterling United Methodist Church, became a licensed local pastor in 2017, and received her Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC in 2020. She is looking forward to sharing her passion, creativity, and her love of God and all God’s children with Centreville UMC.

Rev. Phil Mohr

Phil is a Provisional Deacon in the Virginia Conference. He is a long-time United Methodist, and has been a church professional for about 25 years. Phil has served in the areas of youth ministries, mission ministries, administration, and communications. He has participated in over 25 short-term mission trips and Early Response Team (ERT) deployments, and a short-term international mission volunteer placement with United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) to the Czech Republic. He is also active in local mission and outreach efforts, and he believes strongly that mission and service should start at home. Phil is a certified ERT member and UMVIM Team Leader.

Phil studied engineering at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, and he holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering. He also received a Master of Arts in Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Phil lives in Sterling, Virginia with his family. He is married to his lovely wife, Teresa, and they have two boys, Daniel and Eric. Phil loves Jesus and believes all of life should be an act of worship and gratitude and service to God.

Dave Brown

Dave Brown currently serves as the Contemporary Worship Leader at Centreville United Methodist Church. He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University and a Master’s Degree in Music Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University. He has led praise and worship at several denominational and independent churches for over 20 years.

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Diane Formica

Diane Formica is our new Director of the Centreville Day School Preschool. Diane holds a B.S. in Early Childhood Education, and has 30 years of experience in the field. She has been a director of children’s ministries, directed private daycare facilities, and taught Pre-K thru 2nd grade in both private and public schools. Her most recent experience was as the Pre-K 5 teacher at Centreville Day School. She is married to Richard Formica. They have four adult children, three daughters-in-law and one son-in-law, and nine beautiful grandchildren. She and Richard have been members of CUMC since 2013.

Laura Hesse

Laura Hesse grew up in Glen Burnie, Maryland. She sang in the church choir and started taking piano lessons in 2nd grade. She continued piano in high school and played xylophone and tuba in the marching band. At James Madison University, she continued to play tuba in the Marching Royal Dukes, began taking organ lessons, and was assigned to share music in choir with a tenor named Peter Hesse. After finishing her Master’s Degree in Sacred Music from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Laura and Peter got married in 1998. She has been on staff at CUMC since Music Camp 1999. Laura and Peter live in Herndon with their three children, three birds, and a dog. In addition to music, Laura loves knitting, gardening, and spider solitaire.

Sean Gray

Sean Gray grew up in the mountains of western and central Pennsylvania where he was always involved in church life and came of age as a part of his United Methodist Church’s youth group. At an early age, Sean developed a curiosity for how Christianity shaped the society around him, leading him to graduate with a degree in history and religion from Lycoming College before continuing his education at Wesley Seminary, graduating with a Master’s of Divinity in May of 2021.

Sean is in the process of becoming an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church. Sean currently lives in Arlington, VA where he continues to have an interest in politics, jam out to Taylor Swift, and take advantage of every opportunity to go hiking in Shenandoah National Park and elsewhere.

Becky Jackson

Becky has been on staff at CUMC since August 1988. She grew up close to Hagerstown, MD, on a dairy farm that has been in her family for over 180 years and which her brother and nephew still farm. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Bridgewater College, VA, and a Master’s degree in Church Music from Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA. She taught middle school choral music in Prince William County for 5 years after graduating from Bridgewater. Although she grew up attending the Church of the Brethren, Becky’s church employment has been in the United Methodist Church. Prior to coming to Centreville, she worked at St. Thomas UMC and Grace UMC, both in Manassas.

Becky enjoys flower gardening, listening to audio books, attending the opera, baking and, when possible, travelling. She shares her Centreville townhouse with three cats, Speck, Kate and Pippa.

Phone: 703-830-2684 x1869

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Joy Rangel

Joy grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from Washington-Lee High School. Four years later, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a B. A. in Economics. There she met and married her favorite dance partner, Jorge. Together Joy and Jorge have raised and homeschooled their four children – Anthony, Christopher, Michael and Rachel. Throughout homeschooling Joy was very active in many aspects of children’s ministry and VBS. When her youngest began high school Joy re-entered the work force. She has taught P.E. to K-8th grade at Ad Fontes Academy for the last five years. Now she is delighted to be able to serve Christ by ministering to the children and families here at CUMC.
Joy enjoys reading, playing strategy games and listening to praise and worship music.

Anne Muradaz

Anne Muradaz was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Business Economics with a concentration in Accounting. After working in public accounting with Deloitte Touche for several years, she earned her CPA certificate. Anne and her husband Martin moved east in 1995 and lived in Virginia, Connecticut, and Illinois before settling in Clifton, VA in 2006. They have two teenage sons who are active in sports, Boy Scouts and CUMC activities. Anne joined the CUMC staff in 2010 as the Director of Finance. In her spare time, Anne enjoys traveling, scrapbooking, reading and watching movies.

Telephone: 703-830-2684 x1864

Cindy Osborn

Cindy grew up in Upstate NY and is a lifelong Methodist. Cindy and her family have been members of Centreville UMC since 1994 and have supported both the children’s and youth ministries along with various committees and missions at the church.
Cindy met her husband John while they were seniors in high school here in Fairfax County. They have 3 grown children; Matthew (wife Julie), Caroline and Caryn who have grown up going to CUMC. John and Cindy are proud new grandparents and enjoy camping and going to local sporting events; especially Caps Hockey and the Nats.
Cindy graduated with a degree in Geology from West Virginia University and then went on to work for 30 years for Fairfax County Government as an analyst. She enjoys cooking, going to farmers’ markets, hiking, knitting and blogging.

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