Jeff Terrell – Senior Pastor

Jeff often describes his life as a “real-life game of Plinko.”  Growing up in Kansas City in a baseball family, seeds of childhood dreams of one day playing in the Major Leagues were planted early.  Upon graduating in 1997 from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, life was lining up for Jeff to realize his dream.  However, after 4 years playing Minor League Baseball in the Phillies organization, the Plinko chip turned a “hard left”. More…

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Jeff Belcher - Worship Pastor

Isn’t it amazing how the Lord gives us the desires of our hearts.  Having grown up playing sports year round and, on top of that, pursuing academic excellence at most any expense (which was not always as excellent as I would have liked), music had no place in my life.  As of my senior year, I had never received formal music instruction…until my family decided to move from rural Alabama into Birmingham, where I chose choir as an elective at my new school.  There, God placed in my life not only opportunities to explore my newly found interest in music, but also close friends who would challenge and help nourish my faith, which was still in its infant stages. More…

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Scott Bird - Associate Pastor

Desiring to go into law enforcement I was a candidate with the California Highway Patrol when the Lord made it clear that He wanted me enforcing another kind of Law! Discouraged by the slow pace of the hiring process, one night I was talking with my wife and I asked her “What do you see my passion being, what drives me?” She responded with two thoughts “You either come home from work with stories about the unbelievers you met today or we talk about events and plans for the church we attend.” She didn’t know at the time that those words crystallized in verbal form the desires that had been stirring in my heart since my salvation at age 18. More…