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A Rock Star is not only someone who shows that they can be the best at what they do, they consistently bring their best to everything that they do!

Today’s post continues our Friday Rock star series which highlights an individual or group whose service makes the ministry of our church possible. This week, I’m highlighting one of our newest additions to our staff, Kyle Fagan, who will be leading our new creative media area.

In this new role, Kyle will be designing the graphics for our sermon series and other marketing material as well as working with our in house video productions for use in our weekend services. Kyle will also be providing IT support for our staff.

Kyle previously worked on our staff while finishing up his Masters Degree in design and returns to us after working for several years as a Software developer at a company in Arlington.

Kyle has been a dear friend to me since coming to Mansfield in 2006. I had the honor of officiating his wedding, baptizing his baby girl, Mattie [see photo], and along with my wife, being asked to serve as godparents for both his children.

I can’t even express how excited I am to welcome Kyle to his new role at the church.

A Rock Star is not only someone who shows that they can be the best at what they do, they consistently bring their best to everything that they do!

Today’s post continues our Friday Rock star series which highlights an individual or group whose service makes the ministry of our church possible. This week, I’m going to tag team with the Mansfield News Mirror who this week highlighted Susan Luttrell, our Local Outreach Ministries Coordinator here at the church.

Susan has served on our staff for many years serving in several different areas of our church ministry. She moved into the mission area in 2006 to head up the many local outreach programs that we participate in on a regular basis. Susan has been a personal friend of mine since before I came to Mansfield in 2005, and her friendship played a major part in me wanting to be a part of this incredible church.

Specifically, Susan leads our service efforts for Common Ground, a multi-agency collaboration that provides assistance to disadvantaged families; Literacy Instruction for Texas (known as LIFT); Feed by Grace, a homeless ministry; Hands of Christ, which provides home construction assistance to the elderly and disabled as well as Meals on Wheels.

In short, Susan stays really, really busy, and has an incredible heart of compassion for people in need.

As I said, this post is a tag team with the Mansfield News Mirror who ran a story on Susan this week. Below is a quote from that article from Susan’s boss, Teresa Sherwood, our Mission Director. To read the entire article, click here.

“Susan’s love for all people is born out of her love for God. She reflects that in all of her relationships, which leave everyone she touches feeling valued and blessed.”

Last week, I started a new blog series that I’m calling Friday Rock Stars. Each Friday I will be highlighting one of the individuals or groups whose service makes the ministry of our church possible. Here’s what I think sets them apart as Rock Stars.

A Rock Star is not only someone who shows that they can be the best at what they do, they consistently bring their best to everything that they do!

This week, I want to highlight our team of volunteers who each week prepare the worship bulletin’s that every person receives when they attend one of our weekend services. Here are a few pictures of these faithful volunteers.

Cindy Brown who is the Editor on our church staff had this to say about her volunteers!

My volunteers are Jo Stone, Edna Lang and Michelle Brown. Edna and Michelle arethe new kids on the block . . . Edna has been helping since Easter and Michelle started about a month ago. Jo has been my super volunteer ever since I started handling the weekend bulletin, but she has actually volunteered at the church since it was over on First Street over thirty years ago.  She would come in after work and run the mimeograph machine to produce the bulletins when the church staff was just the pastor and a secretary.

Don is a great volunteer also.  He has been helping me for several years and through several redesigns of the bulletin.  He comes in every week to run the worship order inserts and the GPS inserts.  He also has to cut the worship order cards with the paper cutter and fold the GPS inserts with the folding machine, so he multi-tasks!  And he is my last line of defense for mistakes . . . he’s caught a few boo-boo’s I’ve made before they get copied!

I appreciate the faithfulness of these volunteers in showing up every week.  So many people have no clue what has to happen to get the bulletin ready each week.  The best part is they really enjoy helping, plus they get their fair share of visiting in too!  I absolutely could not do my job without them.