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Email Charles
Charles has served as Senior Pastor since August 8, 2010. He previously served as pastor for FBC from September 1976 to March 1980. He is married to Kathy from Mobile, Alabama, and they have four children: Chris, Holly, Matt, and Renee. They also have six grandchildren.
Charles holds a Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He graduated from the University of North Alabama and has served as an officer and member of the Board of Directors of their National Alumni Association. He has served churches in Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee. He also had an award-winning sales career with Marriott.
Charles enjoys spending time with family, playing golf, traveling, and watching University of Alabama football.
His favorite verse is Psalm 25:1, “To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God.”
Email DanDan has been a church music minister for the past 56 years, and has served as the Minister of Music and Worship for FBC for 17 years. Dan was also director of the Monahans “Big Green Band” for 24 years and has owned his own insurance and financial services business since 1982. Dan is a member of the Monahans Rotary Club and the Sandhills Community Theater.
Dan received a Master of Music Education from the University of North Texas. He has been married to Shirley for 56 years and says she is his “hero.” They are the proud parents of Tony and Angie. Dan’s hobbies include directing bands and anything to do with his grandchildren.
His favorite Bible verse is Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength,” and his favorite Bible character is Barnabas.
Email JeffJeff joined the staff of FBC Monahans in January 2011 as the Associate Pastor of Education and Student Ministries. He is a native of Waco, Texas and a proud graduate of Baylor University. (Sic 'em Bears!) Jeff received his Master of Arts in Christian Education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Jeff accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior as a 13-year-old and then surrendered to vocational ministry while attending a Youth Evangelism Conference as an 18-year-old. Since then, he has served in such ministry roles as Sunday School teacher, home group leader, student minister and associate pastor.
Jeff is supported in his ministry by Catherine, his wife of 13 years. Catherine assists in the student ministry, sings in the church choir, and is the church webmaster. Jeff and Catherine are proud parents of Nicholas and Megan. In his spare time, Jeff loves watching sports (especially baseball!), reading great fiction books, hanging out with his wife and kids, and playing sports video games.
Jeff's favorite Bible verse is Philippians 4:6: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." His favorite person in the Bible (other than Jesus) is the Apostle Paul, who showed that God can take someone completely opposed to Him and turn that person into His best example of what a Christian should be.
Email Judy
Judy serves FBC as the Children’s Ministry Coordinator. Born and raised in Tennessee, Judy received her B.S. in Secondary Education from East Tennessee State University. After graduating from college, Judy served two years in Brazil as a Missionary Journeyman of the Southern Baptist Foreign (International) Mission Board. Judy also completed graduate studies in education and in Bible from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Judy has taught on the secondary level in Tennessee, Virginia, and Kansas; has worked in sales and managed a retail store; taught preschool; and worked as a licensed finance professional.
Along with heading our Children’s Ministry, Judy leads the Redeemed Bad Girls Bible study, participates in the FBC WMU meetings, and is a member of the Singing Women of Texas-Permian Basin. She also substitute teaches, participates in water aerobics, and is a huge Loboes supporter.
Judy has been married 30 years to a minister who is a prison chaplain. Judy describes her husband as “the love of my life, my partner in ministry, a great father and grandfather, and the sunshine of humor in our home.” Judy and her husband have three sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren. She loves reading, music, needlecraft, and Bible study.
Judy’s life verse is Acts 1:8, “You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Email AliceAlice is the Financial Secretary and Church Clerk. She has been at FBC for 15 years. Alice is also the treasurer of the Pecos Valley Baptist Association, a director on the Ward County Livestock Show Board of Directors, and Superintendent of the Rabbit Division of the Ward County Livestock Show.
Alice attended Texas A&I University in Kingsville, Texas and has been married to her husband Rickey for 35 years. She and Rickey have three daughters: Kelly, Melissa, and Amber. Alice’s hobbies include arts & crafts, such as stained glass and jewelry making, and gardening.
Alice’s favorite Bible verse is John 3:16, which she says says it all: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Email NoelThe newest member of our staff is Noel, our Secretary/Receptionist. She joins us after spending the past year working as receptionist at The Life Clinic in Big Spring. Noel graduated from Monahans High School in 1993 and spent time in the Medical Office Specialist program at American Commercial College in Odessa. She has twin 16-year-old sons, Omar and Oswald, who play on the baseball, football and basketball teams at Monahans High.
Noel spends much of her free time working out at the sports complex, reading inspirational books, and attending her sons’ sporting events, but she most enjoys just hanging out with her boys at home.
Noel’s favorite Bible verse is Psalm 46:10, which reads “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Charlotte is one of our two housekeepers. She has been at FBC for 21 years. Charlotte was born and grew up in Borger, Texas before moving to Monahans in 1989. She has been married to her childhood sweetheart for 35 years. Together they share one son and four grandchildren.
Charlotte is active in children’s sports and Boy Scouts. She dabbles in many different types of crafts and likes working in the yard growing flowers and herbs.
Charlotte is touched by Matthew 10: 40-42: “Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.”
Robbie has been filling our stomachs with delicious meals on Wednesday nights for the past 11 years and has been one of our housekeepers for nine years. Robbie was born in Seminole, Texas and moved to Monahans in 1973. She is a graduate of Monahans High School and took some classes at Odessa College.
Robbie is married to Howard. She has two grown children, Timothy and Tiffany. Robbie enjoys scrapbooking in her spare time.
Robbie’s favorite verse is Matthew 19:26, “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
