STEWARDSHIP PROFILES

Meet some of the people in our Mars Hill family who selflessly serve our community week in and week out.

MEDIA

TEAM

I serve with the Media Team at the Fairhope campus. Being able to serve is a joy because it allows me an opportunity to glorify God through the talent that he has blessed me with. Being able to contribute to the Sunday morning services, whether I’m playing keyboard or running sound, is my way of tangibly living out my life verse: “I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service” (1 Timothy 1:12). In my service I always want to encourage others to take up the mindset of Paul and look for areas to serve using the talents, time, and resources that God has blessed them with!

-Anthony Kidd

SECURITY TEAM

JP and I volunteered to serve in the area of security at Mars Hill Fairhope after a request for volunteers was made during announcements. We are both retired law enforcement and it seemed a natural area for us to serve. Currently the security team is being re-established post pandemic and we feel blessed to give our time and talents for the benefit of all Mars Hill attendees. As it says in Ephesians 2:10, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” We will continue to serve when and where there is a need.

-J.P. and Dawn Charette

STUDENT

MINISTRY

I began volunteering with Mars Hill Students in the summer of 2019. Nate (my now husband) was an intern at Mars Hill and had been working with the youth for a while. He asked me to consider getting involved. I volunteered at summer camp and then began attending youth group regularly on Wednesdays. I truly started volunteering because there was a need, not because I felt that the Lord gave me a special calling to work in youth ministry my entire life. I remember the things I struggled with as a teenager. And I know it gets more difficult for these students to choose Christ over sin in a culture that praises sin and rejects truth. Getting to be a part of these students’ lives is a blessing to me. I love watching them ask questions and grow in their relationships with their Creator. Sometimes I feel discouraged, thinking “I’m not good at this. I am not suitable for this position. I don’t know enough about God’s Word to do this.” But I remember that being obedient to the Lord is what I am called to do. He is growing me and changing me through this opportunity so that I may bring Him glory. That is why I volunteer. Because I know he has given me an incredible opportunity that I do not want to waste; to share the Gospel and to serve and love these students well.

-Victoria Carroll

SET-UP

TEAM

When we volunteered for the set up team it was something Mark and I can do together which is always a plus I believe for any couple. We compliment each other in this service, while Mark is precise about where each chair is placed I try to focus on praying over filling those chairs with souls who want to hear Gods’ Truth. Mark and I know how blessed we are as a church to have our leaders teaching the Word. What greater joy could we ask for a community to share? In a world filled with bad news, we know I Am is in charge and we pray for the chairs placed within the walls to hold people hearing the words being taught and take that message to others. Volunteering brings us hope.

-Mark and McKenzie Richardson

WOMEN’S PRAYER COMMUNITY

What initially led me to start the Women’s Prayer Group was a couple of things combined. God had just finished humbling me and teaching me about prayer. I was learning things about the power of His Word “sharper than a double edged sword” (Heb 4:12) and how it “always accomplishes the task for which He sends it” (Isaiah 55:11). I had just learned about praying according to His Word, not just for my wants and needs. I was also very convicted and heartbroken over what I had been learning about human trafficking. I felt helpless to do anything about it. I was praying one day and God showed me that “if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven” (Matt 18:19) and that really we don’t “war against flesh and blood but powers and principalities” (Eph 6:12). He showed me that before anything is accomplished physically it must be attacked in the Spirit through prayer. God showed me that if we could just connect with brothers and sisters in our community and pray we could accomplish much for Him. I specifically remember asking Him how He could free so many millions of modern day slaves, He replied “I’ve done it before”. Of course, He has led His people out of slavery so many times before! God is so much more than I realize. Praise God that my understanding of Him will never encompass all that He is. I am so happy He led me to start the Women’s Prayer Group. I have met so many of Mars Hill’s women, learned so much from them and seen so many answers to our prayers! The blessing is in being obedient to Him. -Jessica Thurston

“God, I pray Thee, light up these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.”

Jim Elliot