Meet The Staff
Our pastoral and administrative staff are here to serve you and create an environment of excellence in ministry. They’re called to help equip the body of Christ to become the church God created us to be. We take this calling seriously and are weekly engaged in staff meetings and personal spiritual accountability (see the “FCC Staff Weekly Top Ten(ish) Accountability Questions” here.) They work hard and want to help you grow in Christ! Please don’t hesitate to let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.
Eric Brown
Minister of Worship and Music
Eric has been with us since May 2011. We’re excited to have him on board. He’s been in local church ministry since 2004. His Bachelor’s in Music is from the University of North Alabama and his Master’s in Worship Studies is from Liberty University. Eric’s passion for worship is contagious and he works hard to equip our congregation to increasingly worship God, not just on Sunday morning but with our whole lives. Eric’s responsibilities includes all aspects of worship and music leadership and planning, including the important task of planning a God-centered service of worship that inspires and educates believers to make God’s glory known. He plays a bunch of instruments but his forte is the old school Hammond B3 jazz organ! His wife Nena is an Alabaman who has learned to put up with Eric’s University of Tennessee fanaticism. Eric has already begun the process of brainwashing his son Eli to share in his love of UT football.
Kim Clark
Children’s Minister
Kim, her husband Russell, and their adorable son, Avery, have been attending First Christian since 2009. Kim has long volunteered in children’s ministry at churches and did so here at First Christian soon after becoming a member. She moved into a greater level of ministry leadership and responsibility as our Children’s Minister at the beginning of 2011. She’s a great administrator who takes her work seriously and loves on kids with her whole heart! We’re really excited to have someone passionate about kids lead us! We are working hard to create a warm and safe environment where parents and their children will feel welcome and experience a culture where children are encouraged toward greater levels of discipleship and commitment to Christ.
Nancy Carter
Housekeeper
Nancy is the veteran on staff. She’s been taking great care of our facilities since 1988! Nancy does a great job keeping our building looking absolutely great! She is married to Randy, who is a self-employed farmer and jack of all trades. They are active in the Union Free Will Baptist Church. She devotes her motherly nurture to her dog, Ginger, who was once featured on TV by channel 11 (WJHL) weatherman Mark Reynolds! Nancy can be seen cruising the strip all over the Tri-State region on weekend evenings as she is a bonafied “car show queen.” She also enjoys antiquing, has the low down on all the good auctions, and has a green thumb. Nancy and Randy have a zoo’s worth of cattle, horses, and mules, and have even had goats, beagles, and coondogs. She is a North Greene High School alum.
Pam Fowler
Office Manager/Publications Director
Pam is our Administrative Guru, keeping us on track when it comes to details. She oversees our Office Volunteer staff, manages the office from 9-12 each weekday, and designs and produces all our publications (newsletter, worship bulletin, email updates, website, etc.) Pam does a fantastic job! The Fowlers have been members at First Christian since Fall 2010. Her bachelor’s degree is in Accounting from Clearwater Christian College. Pam’s husband Mike loves fly fishing, back country camping, and owns his own service company. When she’s not managing us administratively or designing all our publications, Pam stays home with their beautiful daughter, Mollie. Pam loves Jesus, reading, and mochas.
Keri Savell
Financial Secretary
Keri does a great job minding our financial Ps and Qs and has been with us since late 2008. We really appreciate her excellent behind-the-scenes work! Her bachelor’s degree is in flute performance and her Master’s in Accounting from East Tennessee State University. Keri and her husband Will have a beautiful chocolate lab named Abby, are committed followers of Christ, and are involved in a home church here in Greeneville.
Tommy Staggs
Minister of Youth & Family Life
Tommy and his wife Leslie joined us in February 2008, from South Carolina, where Tommy served at SonRise Christian Church for 5 years in the areas of Youth and Worship. They are Milligan College graduates who love the Lord and love working with children and students. We’re really excited about what God is doing through Tommy’s ministry here in Greeneville… He has a passion for developing students into fully devoted followers of Christ and equipping Adult Leaders to facilitate that process. He is a wise and deep thinker who cares about doing excellent work and his leadership gifts make him a key leader at First Christian.
Tommy’s hobbies include losing to Scott, our Senior Minister, in basketball and ping pong. (Hmm… Wonder who wrote this bio?!) But he makes up for that by thoroughly crushing Scott on the golf course. (Like… thoroughly.)
Scott Wakefield
Senior Minister
Scott’s role as Minister at First Christian Church began February 2008. He was previously Minister of Youth here at First Christian since March 2003 and has been in vocational church ministry since 1996, serving churches in Ohio and Illinois. He and his wife Dagny (pron. DAHG-knee) met at Wheaton College, have been married since 1997 and have two incredibly good looking, massively intelligent, and super spiritual kids: Sophia and Alden. Dagny is the Pediatric Social Worker at Johnson City Medical Center. He loves equipping his Staff Team to use their gifts and accomplish their ministry tasks with excellence. Scott’s ministry passion is to connect people to Christ through the local church and equip them to grow to become who God made them to be. He loves to feed the flock with the Word of God and is consumed with carrying out Christ’s call in the Great Commission to “make disciple makers” (a phrase borrowed from a mentor that he likes to use to summarize the church’s task.)
Scott is a lover of reading who also enjoys singing, playing guitar, piano, and drums, and a dark cup of coffee that doubles as paint remover! He plays soccer, basketball, loves (and hates) golf, and has a dream that he will one day automagically turn into an amazing singer-songwriter that holds local coffeehouse audiences of 12 captive by melding John Mayer’s guitar and songwriting skills (with a decidedly theological bent) and Jeremy Lister’s voice. (David Wilcox is as close as it comes.) If he’s not in his office working, then he’s probably somewhere around the building roasting his own coffee beans, making Chemex coffee, or he can probably be found at a local or not so local coffee shop. Make sure you check out his not-updated-since-2008-blog. Scott studied theology at Wheaton College and received his graduate training at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Emmanuel School of Religion. If it’s not patently obvious, he wrote his own bio and pretty much all of the others as well.
