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Ashley Zeiger - Senior High Youth Intern
 Ashley Shook Zeiger. A lot is in a name. Particularly one that forms a sentence.
Ashley never liked her first name, especially since she was named after a random girl her mom thought was cool when she was seven. Do you know what Ashley means? From the tree of Ash, not exactly the most inspiring meaning. But in some translations it means meadow, which Ashley prefers, because she would like to live with gnomes in a meadow one day and finds herself content frolicking in meadows these days.
Shook may have been her mother’s better choice in name because it is a family name and a verb all at the same time. A verb that Ashley very much identifies with in her desire to always shake things up. As a child that meant playing cowboys and indians with her two brothers Evan and Doug in homemade berry warpaint; as a pre-teen that meant wearing a costume to school every day for a week in 7th grade; as an adolescent that meant going to boarding school in New Jersey and not wearing shoes so the northerners really thought Alabamians didn’t have shoes; as an 18 year old that meant deferring from Vanderbilt to travel in Uganda and Ethiopia, getting her pilot’s license and flying with her dad, working as a Camp DeSoto counselor, getting her WEMT in Wyoming through NOLS, and getting a terrible haircut; and as a college student that meant changing her pre-med major to Film Studies and going to "The 5:30."
Zeiger comes from her father and means pointer in German. Ashley harmonizes with this name in that she desires to be a vessel that points to her Abba Father. Recognizing that her two other names often get in the way of that, pointer is the essence of Ashley’s longing to be in deep communion with God. Ashley likes exploring what it means to be a pointer to God in community. That’s why she’s here.
Ashley Zeiger
205-902-2574 (cell)
aszeiger@gmail.com
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