Pastors Nick and Kim Stutesman of Dawn Bible Church (SBC) in Dawn Seashore, Mo. just lately celebrated three milestones: 30 years in ministry, 40 years of marriage, and their sixtieth birthdays, and Missouri State Consultant Suzie Pollock (R-District 123) introduced a Home Decision to the Stutesmans to honor their distinctive service to the neighborhood.
The distinction was introduced on Sunday, Nov. 27. Pals, household, and church members celebrated the three milestones with a dinner cruise on the Celebration Cruise Boat, a luncheon, and presents.
The Decision Learn:
Whereas, the members of the Missouri Home of Representatives proudly pause to acknowledge Pastor Nicholas and Kimberlee Stutesman, esteemed residents of Dawn Seashore, Missouri, who’re celebrating thirty years of remarkable service and dedication to Dawn Bible Church; and
Whereas, the Stutesmans had been put in as Senior Pastors at Dawn Bible Church on October 16, 1992, since which period their dedication to the ministry and neighborhood has made an enduring impression on numerous lives; and
Whereas, Nicholas and Kimberlee Stutesman are the Co-Founders of Lake (West) Christian Academy and function instructors at Life Christian College; and
Whereas, Nicholas and Kimberlee are sturdy supporters of Rhema Ministerial Alliance Worldwide, Westlake Ministerial Alliance, and Lake Christian Academy; and
Whereas, the Stutesmans have been blessed with the love and admiration of their great household which incorporates their two daughters and sons-in-law, Juli and Ian Ward and Sara and Ben Coen; and their three grandchildren, Ruby, Caellum, and Ariella;
Now, due to this fact, be it resolved that we, the members of the Missouri Home of Representatives, One Hundred First Normal Meeting, take part extending out most hearty congratulations to Nicholas and Kimberlee Stutesman upon this very particular anniversary occasion.
Upon receiving the proclamation, Pastor Nick stated, “We now have been fulfilled by serving our Lord and seeing lives modified.”
At a latest celebratory luncheon of their honor, there have been many tributes to the Stutesmans’ affect on the lives of these they touched. Former SBC youngsters’s pastor Shawn Scheffler stated, “Pastors Nick and Kim Stutesman are extra than simply Pastors in my life. They’re like mother and father to me. All through my teen years, school life, and now ministry, their sacrifice of time, expertise, treasure, testimony, and contact have guided me to endeavor to reside a life pleasing to Jesus Christ. They taught me from the bible and thru instance. They taught me about soccer, (the Stutesmans are big Kansas Metropolis Chiefs followers!), the right way to drive and alter the oil in a automobile, and the right way to be a greater husband and father. I am a life that has been modified by their obedience to observe Jesus!”
Lake Christian Academy
The Stutesmans based Lake Christian Academy the place college students obtain a Christ centered schooling with tutorial excellence. Together with core topics, kindergarten via twelfth grade college students, have been enriched via extra-curricular actions together with basketball, volleyball, archery, fishing, tennis, trapshooting, robotics, artwork, residence economics, journalism, in addition to entrepreneurial and monetary programs.
Upward Sports activities Program
SBC additionally sponsors the annual Upward Sports activities Program which presents basketball and cheerleading teaching for kindergarten via sixth grade college students. This system is open to the general public and contains classes on sportsmanship and honesty. “All youngsters deserve alternatives to be lively, be taught, and have enjoyable! That’s why we worth providing new and totally different experiences to welcome and attain all the youngsters in our neighborhood,” Pastor Nick stated.
Neighborhood Heart
The Stutesmans have a wealthy connection to the Lake of the Ozarks, having each graduated from Camdenton Excessive Faculty. “We now have all the time had a imaginative and prescient for the varsity constructing for use by the neighborhood,” Pastor Nick added. The constructing has been utilized for neighborhood grownup basketball and volleyball competitions, the Lake of the Ozarks West Enterprise Expo, Westlake Ministerial Alliance Nationwide Day of Prayer occasions and VBS, and extra.
Dawn Bible Church
Along with serving as lead-pastors for 30 years, the Stutesmans got here to religion and had been married at SBC.
The Stutesmans prolonged a welcome to the neighborhood to go to the church, situated at 17184 N. State Freeway 5 in Dawn Seashore. Sunday service is at 9:30 a.m., a Tuesday Girls’s Bible Research and Prayer time is at 9 a.m., Wednesday Bible Research and Youth Companies are at 6:30 p.m., and a Thursday Males’s Bible Research is obtainable at 8 a.m. When requested to explain fellowship at SBC, Pastor Nick stated, “We’re actual folks, with actual conditions, serving an actual God.”
For prayer or extra details about SBC name 573-374-5937 or go to their web site at https://www.sunrisebible.org.