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Ray Smith - Pastor

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Ray and his family came from the foreign mission field to our church in the fall of 2004.  Over his twenty-three year career, Ray has served churches in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Nicaragua and Missouri.

One of Ray's favorite verses that serves as the mission statement of his ministry is "Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."  Romans 12:2  HCSB
 

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Aaron Kruse - Associate Pastor Administration/Education

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 Aaron and his wife Angel are from the St. Louis area. Aaron has served for seven years as our Youth Pastor. He is currently serving in a new position of Administration & Education. His primary goal is to facilitate the smooth operation of church activities and provide for the spiritual development of our members.

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Devin Didier - Associate Pastor of Worship/Youth and Families

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Devin and his family came to us from southern Indiana in June of 2009.  Devin and his wife Carrie work together to bring a Christ centered family-based ministry approach to reach not only youth but their families with the message of the Gospel.   Devin has worked in the areas of youth and music within the church for the past 15 years and has taught comprehensive music  in both public and private Christian schools.  In every area in which Devin has served he has found no greater inspiration for living than to follow God’s glorious truth presented in the Gospel as Paul stated in I Corinthians 2:2 “ For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” ESV

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 Marty Saner is our bi-vocational minister for our children's music program and our instrumentation for worship services. He works very closely with Devin, our worship pastor, to help integrate our children's music and instruments into the worship service to provide a blended service.

Marty and his family have been a part of our church family for over ten years. He is married to a godly wife and has two lovely daughters. The Lord has gifted him in the area of music and he is using this in our church body to glorify God.

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Kayla Dorris - Ministry Assistant

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Kayla began as ministry assistant for First Baptist Church of Battlefield in February 2001. She is married and has three children.  Kayla earned a college degree at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State).