{"id":692,"date":"2025-12-12T20:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/?page_id=692"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:17:05","slug":"ministers-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/?page_id=692","title":{"rendered":"Ministers and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ephesians 4: 4-7<\/a> There is one body and one Spirit \u2013 just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call \u2013 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ\u2019s gift.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Brian Scoggin<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Lead Pastor<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Brian began serving as Lead Pastor in May of 2025. He lives in Williamson, GA with his wife Ivy and their 3 children, Brady, Max and Ruby Kaye. Together they are committed to knowing God and making Him known through the teaching of His Word and their way of life. As Lead Pastor of Mt. Gilead, Brian serves alongside the church elders as “first among equals” and aims to lead the congregation faithfully, into an ongoing and abiding relationship with Jesus, that they may experience the hope, joy and peace offered to us in Him.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Rex Dugger<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Senior Adult Pastor<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rex Dugger became the Senior Adult Pastor at Mt. Gilead in 2024. He enthusiastically leads the “Happy Timers” senior adult ministry here at Mt. Gilead.\u00a0He and his wife Vicki have served faithfully in our church in many areas over the years. If you would like more information about events and ministries surrounding the “Happy Timers” Ministry, please reach out to Rex by clicking his name above.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Tyler Harmon<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Student Minister<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tyler began as our Minister to Students (Youth) in 2025.\u00a0 He and his wife Kaylynn have a heart to see youth come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and to grow spiritually.\u00a0 Tyler is bi-vocational and works full time in the commercial plumbing industry.\u00a0 He and Kaylynn have two children.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to know more about our Student Ministry, please contact Tyler by clicking on his name above.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Mandy Fleming<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Children\u2019s Ministry Director<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mandy began serving as our Children\u2019s Ministry Director in 2019.\u00a0 Mandy and her husband Travis have been connected to Mt. Gilead for a very long time.\u00a0 Travis grew up at Mt. Gilead and attended until his early 20\u2019s when he met and married Mandy. They served as missionaries in Southeast Asia from 2001-2009 with Mt Gilead as their sending church.\u00a0 Since returning stateside, they have been involved in many different church ministries ranging from Children\u2019s\u00a0 ministry to leading worship. They love children and are excited to spread the love of Jesus to our Mt. Gilead children as they grow in their faith. They have 3 children of their own.\u00a0 If you have any questions about the Children\u2019s Ministry, you can contact Mandy by clicking on her name above<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Ashlynn Davis<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Director of worship Arts
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Ashlynn has been with us since 2025. She began leading the choir ministry, which until that time had ceased to function.\u00a0 Shortly after, her giftedness and heart to serve was evident to all and she naturally took to the helm of all worship arts at Mt. Gilead.\u00a0 She leads all musical offerings here at Mt. Gilead and works with members of the church to assemble our choir and praise band\/singer ministries.\u00a0 She and her husband, Ryan have 2 children.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Sandra Harper<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Ministry Assistant<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sandra and her husband Johnny are long time members of Mt. Gilead. She will likely be the first voice you hear if you call our church office and she will answer your questions and help you in any way that she can. She works hard to keep us organized in our office and day to day responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Julie Smith<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u2013 Financial Secretary<\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Julie keeps an eye our finances.\u00a0 She makes sure our bills are paid and that we honor God with our finances.\u00a0 Julie works closely with our Finance Committee and Church Treasurer to ensure that everything given to Mt. Gilead is used for God\u2019s work.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ministers and Staff Ephesians 4: 4-7 There is one body and one Spirit \u2013 just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call \u2013 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-692","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}