MARYVILLE, Mo. — The First Christian Church introduced in a information launch final week that the Rev. Gina Johnson will function its new pastor.
In keeping with the discharge, Johnson has been within the ministry for greater than a decade and involves Maryville “with a really dynamic background and an excessive degree of focus and dedication to proceed making First Christian Church an inviting, welcoming group that everybody feels snug coming to as they’re engaged on their very own understanding of religious rules.”
Johnson beforehand served as senior pastor on the Warrensburg First Christian Church.
“I’m excited to be right here in Maryville and to assist develop the Maryville group spiritually,” Johnson mentioned in an announcement.
Previous to her place in Warrensburg, Johnson served as affiliate pastor/director of kids’s ministry on the First Christian Church in Sedalia.
Outdoors of church, Johnson spends time together with her household, together with six kids. She is an avid reader and loves instructing others in addition to being “an encourager,” the information launch acknowledged, along with having a ardour for youth and serving the group.
Johnson graduated from Crossroads Faculty in Rochester, Minnesota, with a bachelor’s in ministry after which attended the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, the place she graduated with a grasp of divinity with a concentrate on church renewal management.
“Everyone seems to be born with equal potential to talk life into different individuals’s lives,” Johnson mentioned. “I simply had a ardour to undergo the formal schooling of ministry to be taught what the lecturers of the previous needed to share so we are able to proceed the expansion of the attention of Christ’s Spirit in our lives.”
Sunday providers start at 10:30 a.m. and are broadcast dwell on Fb on the church’s Fb web page.
“I want to personally invite anybody in the neighborhood who’s in search of a constructive, welcoming surroundings to present us a attempt,” Johnson mentioned.
For extra data, name the church at 660-214-3414 or cease by at 201 W. Third St.
