He was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry on June 29, 1986, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, West Monroe, Louisiana.
From March 1990 to August 1999 he was the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
In September 1999, he was installed as assistant professor of exegetical theology at Concordia Seminary.
In 2013, he returned to parish ministry as senior pastor of St. Michael Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
[2] Reed has taught courses on books in the Old Testament, Hebrew, homiletics, biblical hermeneutics, and preaching.