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Staff Information
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Alex Cobb – Worship and Leadership Minister
Immediate family: Wife - Jill, boys - Trevor, Timothy, and Taylor
First job: Bucking hay for mid-Missouri farmers
Musical must-have(s): Relient K & Tom Petty
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Racquetball & Reading
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Where Is God When It Hurts (Philip Yancey)
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “I have found over and over again how hard it is to be faithful to Jesus when I am alone.” Henri Nouwen, In The Name Of Jesus. I thank God every day for my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Favorite movie(s): Princess Bride, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Shawshank Redemption, Over the Hedge, Groundhog Day
Favorite local restaurant: Exotic Thai & Azteca
Favorite ice cream flavor: Cup O’ Joe Espresso
Describe your dream vacation: Visiting a big city I’ve never been to with my family with lots of things to do and discover... and lots of great restaurants to eat at.
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? Job, The widow who put in all she had to live on, Caleb
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” Matthew 5:14-16 - “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
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Tim Scott – Minister of Member Outreach
Immediate family: Wife - Julie, children - Tabitha, Adam, Nathaniel, and Malachi
First job: Paper route
Musical must-have(s): Soul/R&B
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Team sports, children’s events, piano tuning & music
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “What we win them with is what we win them to.”
Favorite movie(s): Glory
Favorite local restaurant: Los Agaves (Davenport)
Favorite ice cream flavor: Peppermint
Describe your dream vacation: Amusement parks 24/7
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? Samson (the ultimate action hero)
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” John 14:23 - Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him."
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Bryan Shelley – Youth Minister
Immediate family: Wife - Hannah
First job: Sandwich artist at Penn Station: East Coast Subs
Musical must-have(s): P.O.D., David Crowder Band, Nickleback, 3 Doors Down
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Movies, World of Warcraft, XBox 360, basketball, golf, paintball
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller & Confessions of a Reformission Rev. by Mark Driscoll
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: "It's not who we are on the inside, but it's the things we do that define us." - Batman Begins
Favorite movie(s): The Dark Knight, The Matrix trilogy, Batman Begins, Die Hard saga, Gladiator, The Rock, Count of Monte Cristo, The Bourne trilogy, A Night at the Roxbury, Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy, Remember the Titans
Favorite local restaurant: Buffalo Wild Wings
Favorite ice cream flavor: Snickers & Reese's Cups
Describe your dream vacation: Scuba diving anywhere tropical
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? David
What Bible verse do you consider your "life verse?" James 4:7-8 - “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
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Ted Brown – Director of Children’s Ministries
Immediate family: Wife - Janet, children - Jordan, Josh, Jared, Taylor, Hannah, TJ, Amory, and Natalie
First job: Dishwasher in a restaurant, age 15
Musical must-have(s): Rich Mullins, Fernando Ortega, Third Day
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Very funny!
Favorite book (besides the Bible): The Fabulous Re-Invention of Sunday School by Aaron Reynolds
Favorite movie(s): Raising Arizona, The Princess Bride
Favorite local restaurant: Exotic Thai
Favorite ice cream flavor: Baskin-Robbins Rocky Road or Breyers’ Mint Chocolate Chip
Describe your dream vacation: Touring the Western coastline via motorcycle with plenty of beach time along the way.
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? It will be interesting to have a talk with Paul.
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” II Corinthians 4:16-18 - “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
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R. Harold Pope – Minister of Counseling
Immediate family: Wife - Joan, sons - Steve and Dan, and daughter - Vicki
First job: Delivered newspaper for Casper, Wyoming Gazette at age 11
Musical must-have(s): Ivan Parker, Perry Como, Gaithers, Janet Pascal, Tony Bennett, Guy Penrod
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Fishing, golf, collecting Indian artifacts from the plains of Wyoming, gardening, collecting actual film of WWII.
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Max Lucado, Spurgeon’s Expository Encyclopedia, Billy Graham’s books, James Dobson
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “If you put your mind to it, you can do it!”
Favorite movie(s): The Crucifixion, Moses, Dances with Wolves, most WWII movies.
Favorite local restaurant: Biaggi’s, Red Lobster
Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate or Strawberry.
Describe your dream vacation: Hawaii (again)
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? Timothy
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” Proverbs 3:5,6 - "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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Karl Roberts – Seniors Minister
Immediate family: Wife - Sharon
First job: Farmhand
Musical must-have(s): ”More Than Wonderful,” by Sandy Patti and Larnell Harris, most WOW CD’s, 50’s and 60’s hits.
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Fishing and watching Cardinal baseball.
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Current book - “Heaven,” by Randy Alcorn.
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” Robert F. Kennedy
Favorite movie(s): Indiana Jones series, The Passion of the Christ, The Patriot, Forrest Gump, etc. etc. etc.
Favorite local restaurant: Applebee’s or about any other restaurant
Favorite ice cream flavor: Butter nut
Describe your dream vacation: Another trip to the Holy Lands with side trips to Egypt and Asia Minor
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? There are so many, I would like to meet - the Apostle Paul is one.
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” Joshua 24:15 - “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve... But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
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Janine Sunderman – Christian Education Director
Immediate family: Husband - Kirk, kids - Hannah, Andrew & Emma
First job: Babysitting
Musical must-have(s): Selah, Jars of Clay, Casting Crowns, Mercy Me
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Scrapbooking, piano, baking, organizing
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Anything by Beverly Lewis or Wanda Brunstetter on the Amish
Favorite local restaurant: Outback Steakhouse
Favorite ice cream flavor: White Chocolate Raspberry at Whitey’s
Describe your dream vacation: Kauai’s Napoli Coastline
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? Hannah
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” Philippians 4:13 - “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
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Ray McMillin – Connections Ministry Coordinator
Immediate family: Wife - Linda, mother-in-law - Becky, son - Ben and daughter-in-law - Laura, daughter - Megan, son-in-law - Brian, and grandchildren - Olivia and Isaac, daughter - Holly, son-in-law - Shane, and grandchildren - Naomi and Caleb
First job: Selling TV Guides door-to-door
Musical must-have(s): Glad, Casting Crowns
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Reading, gardening, antiquing
Favorite book (besides the Bible): “Failure, the Backdoor to Success,” by Irwin Lutzer.
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” “Pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll find you’ve collected nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.”
Favorite movie(s): “What About Bob?”
Favorite local restaurant: Olive Garden (other than Davenport).
Favorite ice cream flavor: Anything chocolate (especially dark chocolate) - chewy with nuts
Describe your dream vacation: My wife and I alone for at least a week - good food, ocean, sand, three or four good police-courtroom mystery novels to read - no phones, no TV, no computers
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? John and Paul
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” Romans 12:2 - “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 8:28 - “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”
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Lori Sturtzer – Small Groups and Bible Studies Director
Immediate family: Husband - Bud, children - Abby, Hannah and Sam
First job: Working in a record store (not CDs!) - Camelot Music
Musical must-have(s): Concert in Central Park - Simon and Garfunkel; James Taylor - Greatest Hits; my Sirius Radio turned to 70’s music
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Scrapbooking, cooking and most importantly - shoe shopping!
Favorite book (besides the Bible): Gone with the Wind
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: “Bloom where you are planted” - with all of the moving that I have done, it has served me well!
Favorite movie(s): Jaws, any of the Raiders of the Lost Ark series
Favorite local restaurant: The Faithful Pilot
Favorite ice cream flavor: Mississippi Mud - coffee and chocolate together
Describe your dream vacation: Sitting on the beach in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? Peter
What Bible verse do you consider your “life verse?” I have two... Psalm 19:14 - “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.” Jeremiah 29:11 - “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
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Eric VanWinkle – Director of Worship Ministries
Immediate family: Wife - Leigh, daughters - Kayleigh and Emma, son - Aaron
First job: Yankee Doodle Pizza in Moline
Musical must-have(s): Is there a limit? Steven Curtis Chapman, Derek Webb, Desperation Band, Chris Tomlin, Relient K, John Mayer, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Amos Lee, Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Brad Paisley, The Highwaymen (the country outlaw group, not the folk group) -- I'll stop there.
Hobbies or spare-time activities: Spare time - what's that? If I had any spare time I might play Disk Golf.
Favorite book (besides the Bible): The Pursuit of God - A.W. Tozer
Favorite (non-Bible) quote: Changes almost every time I read a new book. Right now it is... "Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable." -- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury 1942-1944. But this could be different by the time this makes print.
Favorite movie(s): The Sandlot
Favorite ice cream flavor: Mississippi Mud
Describe your dream vacation: I'm a home body but I would like to visit Ireland - don't know why though.
What Bible character (besides God or Jesus) do you look most forward to meeting in heaven? David and Timothy
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BCC Elders
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Brad Buckland
Steve Shaw
Randy Corzette
Don Paustian
Marty Hanson
Kirk Sunderman
Tim Headley
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