Cumberland Road

Rev. Tim Smith is pastor of the Fayetteville Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, Tennessee. His father is Rev. Kirk Smith who is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. As a native of the Fayetteville area he has been blessed to serve the Fayetteville Church for the past 17 years and the Boonshill Church for four years prior to this. Currently, he serves in numerous leadership positions throughout the church including: the Ministry Council, Engrossing Clerk and Chair of the Pastoral Care Committee; both in Columbia Presbytery. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and Memphis Theological Seminary. He is very active in the community and was recently nominated by the local school system for the Tennessee School Board Association Volunteer of the Year Award. In his spare time he loves watching and attending high school and Middle Tennessee State football games and loves spending time in the mountains and the wilderness. Tim is an avid hiker and this summer he completed the goal of summiting Mt. Whitney which is the highest mountain the 48 states. His wife Shana is a 2nd grade school teacher and they have one daughter 6 year old daughter Skylar.

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Leanne Kerner is a native of Paducah, Kentucky. She is a graduate of Bethel University with a Bachelors of Science and a graduate of Memphis Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity. She was ordained by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in May of 2017. Leanne has served Cumberland Presbyterian congregations  in Kentucky and Tennessee before moving to Dallas, Texas in March of 2020. Leanne now serves the Lake Highlands Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas as the Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries. In her spare time, Leanne enjoys long walks with Dolly the Dog, spending time with friends, reading, True Crime Podcasts, and reality television.

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Elinor Brown is an ordained Cumberland Presbyterian minister and member of West Tennessee Presbytery. She is the Discipleship Ministry Team Leader and works at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Cordova, Tennessee. She and her husband, new grandparents to Evelyn, live in Memphis as does their daughter Sydney and son in law Brian. Elinor loves to make clergy stoles, swim and play with Evelyn in her leisure time.

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Brent Wills -
Education:  Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Middle Tennessee State University, Masters of Education degree from Middle Tennessee State University, and Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary.

Vocation Experience:  Served 11 years as a high school geometry teacher before going to seminary.

Current Ministry and Vocations:  Pastor of Jerusalem Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Murfreesboro Presbytery   serving this congregation for 13 years and will be starting my 14th year with them in November 2021.  School Bus driver for Wilson County Schools with this school year being my 25th year driving a school bus.  Campground Director for Crystal Springs Camp, the church campground of Tennessee Synod with this being my 11th year as director for Crystal Springs Camp.  Seasonal worker for Cedars of Lebanon Tennessee State Park served as a swimming pool lifeguard, operated the campground store, assisted the park rangers with interpretive and educational programs, as well as "other duties as assigned".  I have been on staff with the state park for 8 years.  

Family:  Wife - Robin Wills, a school psychologist for Metro Nashville Public Schools and very active in the Cumberland Presbyterian Women's Ministry(CPWM) and Our United Outreach (OUO) of our denomination.  Son - Benjamin Wills, who is 8 years old and in the 3rd grade.  At this point, I am just simply known as Benjamin's dad.

Pets:  We currently have 10 cats - Peyton, Casey, Smokey, Buddy Dobbs, Rosie, Daphne Thelma, Gidget, Zoey, Lizzie, and Cape.

Publications:  I have written one quarter of the Encounter for the Discipleship Ministry Team.

Things unique to me:  Pretty much everything listed above.  I'm a huge Tennessee Vols fan.

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Rev. Kip Rush, the first full time pastor of the new Brenthaven Church, has been a life long Cumberland Presbyterian. Raised in Austin, Texas, he grew up in the St. Paul Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He answered the call to the ministry in 1983 and after a year at the University of Texas, he moved to McKenzie, Tennessee to attend Bethel College. While at Bethel, he met and married his wife, Jodi.
Kip graduated from Bethel in 1986 and later from Memphis Theological Seminary (1990), where he served as president of the Student Government Association, received the award for Cumberland Presbyterian History and graduated with honors.

He was ordained at the Colonial Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Trinity Presbytery and has served churches in Texas, Georgia and Mississippi before coming to Brenthaven. Kip serves on the Board of Christian Education in Nashville Presbytery, the Board of Trustees for Memphis Theological Seminary and the board of UKirk Nashville, a Presbyterian college ministry serving Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities.

Kip and Jodi have two daughters, Madison, who is a sixth grade teacher and Devin, who works for a healthcare non-profit.

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Rev. Dr. George Estes has been on the Cumberland Road all his life. As a Cumberland Presbyterian minister for more than fifty years, he has served pastorates in Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas and Texas. In 2014 he retired after twenty years with the denomination’s mission agency. He remains involved as interim and supply pastor and occasional writer for Cumberland publications. He and his wife Janie reside in Germantown, Tennessee, with their dog Jesse. They have four adult children.

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Rev. Jim Fisk is the minister at the 1st Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Russellville, Arkansas.  He is married to Linda Fisk and the father of candidate for the ministry Matt Fisk.  Jim has been a minister since 1983 with Cumberland Presbyterian congregations in Walkerville, Harrison, Dover, Hector and Monticello, Arkansas and Burns Flat, Oklahoma. He is a member of the WRBC and hobbies include photography and golfing.

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Reverend Christopher Martin is a 35-year-old child of God. He accepted Jesus Christ at a young age and accepted the call to preach in 2010. While taking classes through the Hiwassee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (CPCA), he was introduced to his wife Stephanie through her dad, Rev. Edmund Cox, who was finishing classes at the time. Chris has been very active since his ordination in 2012. Chris is currently serving as: the senior minister of Robinson Chapel CPCA, the co-youth minister and vice moderator for the Hiwassee Presbytery and the stated clerk for the Tennessee Synod. Chris and Stephanie are both ordained ministers that live in Sweetwater, Tennessee.

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Rev. Jimmy Byrd is the minister of the Clarksville Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Clarksville, Tennessee. He has been serving there since January 1, 2021. He is married to Jennifer and has two sons, Daniel and Matthew. He grew up the son of a preacher man - the Rev. James Byrd - and has spent his whole life in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He enjoys traveling, music and movies (especially from the '80s). He also enjoys watching his boys play soccer and baseball.

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Rev. Paul Earheart-Brown is the minister of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. He is originally from Memphis, Tennessee and is a third-generation Cumberland Presbyterian minister. Paul graduated from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee in 2015 and from Memphis Theological Seminary in 2018. Paul loves attending church camps and retreats and working with youth and children.

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