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“I just go along with the Holy Spirit wherever people are in need,” said Dea. Reid, a Deaconess of TACA, who makes runs to businesses and homes for food, clothing, books, toys, and more, items she often grabs off of an improvised coffer on her front porch in Newton, North Carolina.
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“Sometimes there’s a pile of donated things on our porch when I get home,” said her husband, Rick, the Archbishop of TACA. “One time there were two huge garbage bags filled with Easter bunnies, baskets, and toys from a collection Ginny arranged through the firemen and police.” Abp. Reid is also the Rector of Saint Andrew’s Anglican Church in Newton, the Chancery of TACA.
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The couple appears to pay little mind that few people–including members of their own Diocese, notice the trajectory of Dea. Reid’s work. 

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The Bishop of the Northeast Diocese of TACA, Mike DellaVecchia, whose charitable non-profit has served in New York and Philadelphia for a decade has offered his analysis: “I have repeatedly hired teams of volunteers up North to do what one lady singlehandedly does down South.”
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The following (incomplete) list describes the in-kind donation actions led by Dea. Reid in Catawba County, the 416-square-mile region where the Reid’s reside.
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• Stuffing new backpacks with food for people living in tent cities.
• Coordinating fundraisers and volunteer commitments for Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
• Initiating community partnerships to support Wounded Warrior Project.
• Organizing local laundries to clean for free the uniforms of ROTC cadets.
• Developing community gardens (the Reids’ granddaughter Casey running the first, starting out with regular $1 “infectious” donations.
• Collaborative leadership of site crews for parks cleanup.
• Instituting sponsorship campaign to motivate ongoing cleanups of community parks, thanking each donor with homemade pinwheels that were hung in the parks to remember children who died from domestic violence.
• Donation drives of meals from pizzerias.
• Mass collection of tennis shoes for boys.
• Huge bag-drops of feminine products delivered to high schools.
• Collection of discarded household items from local schools for redistribution to needy.
• Gifting program for Sipe’s Orchard Home for teenagers and young adults (since it was formally identified as an orphanage) in Conover, NC.
• Aid and support given to brain-injury patients and helping run support groups.
• Partnership with Ronald Reagan Ministries to gather volunteers and gifts to help families in need.
• Partnership with Samaritans Purse to aid survivors with disaster relief (e.g., Hurricane Helene’s victims in Western Appalachia).
• Rounding up of local JAARS donations by which Bibles can reach underserved foreign/domestic regions.
• Donations collected for local battered women’s shelter.
• Coordinating acquisitions of wigs for Wigbank for women undergoing chemotherapy.
• Pulling together of presents for children who are homeless, sheltered, and/or the victims of domestic abuse.
• Mass-batching of $100 prizes for senior-citizen winners at bingo games (winner picking out gifts as overseen by “Officer” Casey).
• Rounding up of stainless-steel bowls and the development of an online “wish list” (e.g., high-end leashes, collars), for Humane societies (“Someone even donated a stainless-steel dishwasher,” said Dea. Reid).
• Presiding over specialized goods drive that gathered 97 prom dresses for struggling high school in Alaska (“We heard about the school from one of my old high-school classmates from Michigan,” said Abp. Reid.
• Book runs and food runs “anytime, anywhere,” said Dea. Reid.
• Managing and participating in soup kitchens.

“Many of these drives are for underserved folks and for causes experiencing funding gaps,” said Dea. Reid. 

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Brain-injury support groups, the homeless, special causes for minors and seniors are examples which the Reid’s say fall under a Federal-funding gap.

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“It’s unfair, but Ginny, she sure makes up the difference,” said Abp. Reid.

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Dea. Reid, whose Good Works stretch themselves out along the $500 per-month budget put up by Saint Andrew’s, was also the Beautification Chairperson for Newton. 

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“Those were three lovely years of having mulch delivered and doing other happy things to keep Newton looking nice,” Dea. Reid said.

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A charitable cause can be communicated for Dea. Reid’s review, by contacting the Chapter of TACA that manages its Web site, at [email protected].