A ranar 10 ga Disamba, Ƙungiyar Shugabancin Gundumar Shenandoah ta "ƙare tare da yiwuwar maido da aiki" nadin Chris Zepp, mataimakin fasto na Bridgewater (Va.) Church of Brothers. An dauki wannan matakin ne bisa shawarar Kwamitin Shugabancin Ministoci na gundumar, bayan da Zepp ya gudanar da auren jinsi daya.
Wannan shi ne karo na farko da wata Coci na gundumar ‘yan’uwa ta soke nadin minista tun bayan hukuncin da Kotun Koli ta yanke na tsawaita auren jinsi a duk jihohi 50. Wannan aikin ya zo ne a cikin wani ɗan lokaci, a ƙarshen rabin 2015, wanda yawancin tarurrukan gundumomi suka gudanar da tattaunawa, ɗaukar kudurori, ko zartar da tambayoyin da ke da alaƙa da auren jinsi ko jima'i (duba rahoton Newsline a. www.brethren.org/news/2015/southeast-district-begins-query-process.html da kuma www.brethren.org/news/2015/districts-take-action-kan-jima'i-aure.html .)
Zepp yana hidima a Cocin Bridgewater tare da babban fasto Jeff Carr. A watan Mayu, ikilisiyar ta ba wa ministocinta ikon yin kowane aure na doka, kuma daga baya a wannan watan Zepp ya gudanar da auren jinsi. Tun daga lokacin shugabancin ikilisiya ke tattaunawa da shugabannin gunduma game da wannan shawarar. A wannan makon Hukumar Gudanarwar Ikklisiya ta fitar da wata sanarwa da ta ce, a wani bangare, “ikklisiyarmu za ta ci gaba da daukar Fasto Chris aiki kuma za ta girmama da kuma sa ran duk ayyukan hidimar fastoci.”
Zepp ya yi aiki a matsayin jagoranci da yawa a cikin darikar ciki har da mataimakin shugaba sannan kuma a matsayin shugabar Ƙungiyar Ministoci, kuma a matsayin memba na ƙungiyar tsara ayyukan ibada don taron shekara-shekara na 2013. Ya kammala karatun digiri ne a shekara ta 2007 a Makarantar tauhidin tauhidin Bethany, inda ya sami digiri na biyu na Allahntaka tare da bambanci don aikinsa na ilimi a cikin karatun Littafi Mai Tsarki.