Home » About » Leadership First United Methodist Church Grapevine has staff to facilitate ministry, but the leaders of the church are actually members who give of their free time to further the ministries of the church. Below is a listing of the committees and boards led by lay persons. Click here to meet our staff.

Ministry How-To Guide 2013 (pdf)

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Click on the name of the committee to read more about it.

Administrative Board

Chair: Kevin Mitchell Vice-Chair: Becky Prentice Senior Pastor: John Mollet Lay Leader: Mark Howe UMW President: Miriam Ward Iron Men Representative: Kevin Mitchell Administrative Board is also made up of all of the Council on Ministries, the Chairs of each committee, and all of the Lay Members to Annual Conference (see below for each of these groups).

Sunday School Class Representatives: All Seasons: Steve & Kristi Isbell Connections: Tana McClendon Covenant Class: Mary Jane Tohlen Discover the Bible: Judy Grosbach Journey's Foundation: Julie Croft Open Door: OC Hailey Pathfinders: Joy Dister Roundtable: Wayne McNinch Seekers: Linda Flippin Singles: Ann Correll Two by Two: Curtis Jones

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Council on Ministries

Chair: Neil Payne
Vice-Chair: Allen Barraclough
Heritage: Hal O'Brien
Hispanic: Johnny Almendarez
Worship: Brian Randolph (DT) | Melissa Shumaker (H)
Evangelism: Linda Davies (DT) | Billie Martin (H)
Missions: Anne Rhoades (DT) | Mike Rushing (H)
Compassion: Kathy Naylor (DT)
Discipleship: Troy Merklin (DT)
Fellowship: Glenda Cherry, Debbie VanPelt, Shelly Lemman (DT) | Susan Brown (H)
Children’s Council Chair: Amy Gravitt
Nursery Council: Cindy Baldwin
Youth Council Representative: Pam De La Cruz
Boy Scout Representative: Bob Williams

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Committee on Staff/Parish Relations

Class of 2013 Bill McClesky Julie Croft Mary Jane Tohlen

Class of 2014 Nancy White (chair) Craig Morris Jennifer Mitchell

Class of 2015 Carolyn Sims Linda Almendarez Herb Fry

Lay Leader: Mark Howe
Senior Pastor: John Mollet

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Committee on Lay Leadership

Class of 2013 Donna Chabot Don Davis Nancy White

Class of 2014 Phil Chelf Angie Vaughan Barbara Maness

Class of 2015 Barbie Deborah  Kenda Diehm Mike Ozymy

Senior Pastor/Chair: John Mollet
Lay Leader: Mark Howe

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Committee on Finance

Class of 2013 Kary Lippe (chair) Hal O'Brien Elaine Free-Roberson Rob Rhoades

Class of 2014 Sherl Taylor Jeff Nichols Kevin Sisk Steve Blankenship

Class of 2015 Ed Lakey Buck Townsend Ken Hall Jim Deborah

Staff: Trudy Hughes

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Trustees

Class of 2013 Grant Hollingsworth David White Pam Fry

Class of 2014 Dana Sundell Rick Davies Wayne McNinch (chair)

Class of 2015 Allen Barraclough Mark Shumaker Michele Sirotnak

Staff:

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Compass Team

Class of 2013 Becky Prentice Beverly Breunig Justin Lemman Russell Gravitt

Class of 2014 Joy Dister Jason Bentley Donna Chabot Kay Green

Class of 2015 Helen Jean Lucas Reed Phillip Coleman Steve Palla

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Stewardship Team

Class of 2013 Anne Rhoades Mike Ozymy (chair) Kim Crater Walter Merrill

Class of 2014 David McCarley Robert Treese Ted Vaughan Greg Weston

Class of 2015 Julie Stringer Jimmy Brown Rocky Drew Brian Sundell

Staff: Trudy Hughes, Melburn Sibley, John Mollet

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Lay Members to Annual Conference

Allen Mossman
Jessie Mossman
Walt Milner
Elyse Hahne
Mike Rushing
Barbara Evartt

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Foundation Committee

Class of 2013 Dave Buhr Rod Hall

Class of 2014 Rich Whitlock Jack Rose

Class of 2015 Allen Mossman

Trustee Chair: Wayne McNinch
Finance Chair: Kary Lippe
Senior Pastor: John Mollet

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Creative Learning Center Board

Class of 2013 Kara Bentley (chair) Wendy Merrill Angie Vaughan

Class of 2013 Kristen Pratt Stephanie Coons

Class of 2014 Rachel Bell Marilyn Hall Betsy Hayes

Class of 2015 Aurora Pierson Tiffany Way

Children’s Minister: Nathan Firmin
CLC Director: Sarah Oliver