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Reverend Billy Price is the Associate Pastor of Youth at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, TN.  He resides there with his wife Lara, step-son Eden, and son Woods.  Billy was ordained in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 2016 and has been serving at Beaver Creek for the past three and a half years.

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Rev. Neal Wilkinson is the Senior Pastor at White Oak Pond Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, Missouri. Neal grew up in Northern Ireland and moved to the United States in 2011, coming to Nashville, Tennessee with the Center for Youth Ministry Training, where he served for 4 years as a Middle School Minister in a United Methodist Church. It was in Nashville where he met his wife Joanna, a fourth generation Cumberland Presbyterian. He has been at White Oak Pond since January 2018. He and Joanna had their first child, Nora Ellis in November 2019.

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Rev. Joyce Merritt directs Still Waters Family Ministries, a Middle Tennessee outreach ministry headquartered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  This ministry serves families, with a focus on single parent families, who need a hand up to move forward to the full and secure life God wants for all God’s children.  Prior to founding and directing Still Waters Family Ministries, Joyce pastored the Rockvale Cumberland Presbyterian Church for ten years.  Previously, she served in associate pastoral capacities at Commerce Cumberland Presbyterian Church and at Cookeville Cumberland Presbyterian Church where she co-founded and co-pastored an outreach ministry to persons living in or near the Cookeville Housing Authority.
Joyce received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts Degree from Tennessee Technological University and taught in the public schools for ten years as a family literacy teacher and program director as well as a secondary science teacher.  Following her teaching career, Joyce answered the call to ministry, earning her Master of Divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary in 2004.  Her first call to ministry was to a Cookeville Outreach Ministry.   She was ordained in December 2004 during the same service in which her fifth child received infant baptism.

In addition to the Still Waters Ministries, Joyce also serves as Parish Associate for the Murfreesboro First Presbyterian Church where she has served for the past three years.  She has also published a book of poems: Naked Before God, A Journey Into Light and Life.   Joyce and Tim and three of their five children live on a family farm in Rockvale, Tennessee.

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Rev. Dr. Susan Parker was ordained as a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in 2014 after graduating from Memphis Theological Seminary’s Program of Alternate Studies. Since that time Susan has been serving as interim and supply pastor in various Cumberland and USA Presbyterian churches in North Alabama. During 2018-2019, Susan served as Interim President at Memphis Theological Seminary.  

Prior to the ministry, Susan served in two statewide elected positions: Alabama Public Service Commission (2006-2010) and State Auditor of Alabama (1998-2002). She spent most of her career in higher education working seventeen years at Calhoun Community College, Decatur, Alabama and eight years at Athens State University, Athens, Alabama. Susan retired in 1996 as Chief Development Officer at Athens State. 

Susan and her husband, Paul, live on the Elk River in Rogersville, Alabama.  

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John grew up in the same neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico as Rev. Shelia O'Mara and Rev. Lyle Reece and is tremendously disappointed he didn't know them as a child. John's parents were both Presbyterian elders and active in a PCUSA church in Albuquerque. John might be best known there for his disdain for pre-school. He would often cry in the corner while secretly waiting for the pastor to come in to greet the kids before service. He'd dart out the open door and run around and sneak into the adult service. When he was four his parents gave up on preschool and he got to come to the service without the drama. Coloring books were strictly verboten in that church, so he'd occupy himself searching through the old hymnal looking for the oldest hymn ("Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence"), the most prolific arranger/composer (Ralph Vaughn Williams) and all the songs that used the same meter. John can't carry a tune to this day, but he knows the fourth verse of "All Creatures of Our God and King" if anyone asks.

At age 11, John's family moved to Eugene, Oregon where John attended middle and high school. Albuquerque was an intellectual town with the national laboratories and the air force base, but Eugene was an athletic town, so John's world was upended. He went from being the first picked for kickball to being the nerd. He still remembers winning the Charlie Hustle award in Little League for being the hardest working right fielder the coach had ever had. After high school, John matriculated at a Methodist University (Willamette University) where he joined the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and committed himself to ministry in the dorms. Fortunately, the University required him to take classes, too, so he was exposed to a set of brilliant and engaging Bible teachers who nurtured his love for Jesus' parables, CS Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maxwell's equations. The nerd factor was always in play, so John majored in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

After college, John joined a group of Intervarsity friends to form a community committed to inner-city ministry. Nicknamed the MISFITS (Missionaries in San Francisco in Training), this group of nine moved to San Francisco to pursue God's call. John worked in technology, while each of the others pursued their own paths. The group wandered through different ministries and churches looking for places to settle down. John didn't have to look far. He lives two blocks from the first house, works from home and walks to church.

John married his lovely wife Sharon seven years later. They're blessed to have two adult children, Justin and Claire. John and Sharon switched off being the stay at home parent a couple of times while each worked in a demanding technology career. They both credit the role switches as being key to thriving in marriage. Today, John spends most of his time in different ministry pursuits while Sharon supports the family with a high tech job, Justin works with an immigration law firm and Claire is trying to have a rewarding senior year of college while stuck at home because of the pandemic. They have no idea what comes next. Only God knows.

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Rev. Samantha Hassell was raised in the Rose Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church and has served the Cumberland Presbyterian Church as a christian educator and youth pastor since 2001.  She is a graduate of Bethel College (B.A.) and Memphis Theological Seminary (MAYM).  Samantha has been a contributing writer for Faith Out Loud, Feasting on the Word, Growing in Grace and Gratitude and was the writer of the 2016 Presbyterian Youth Triennium Small Group Manual.  She and her husband, Rev. Victor Hassell, have three children and serve together at the Sturgis Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Sturgis, Kentucky.

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Nathaniel (Nate) Mathews is an Ordained Minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a graduate of Bethel University and Memphis Theological Seminary. Nate is currently serving as the Senior Pastor of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (FCPC) in Lubbock, Texas of Presbytery del Cristo. He and his wife Anna, along with their two pets, have been residents of the Lubbock area for over 2 years. They look forward to fruitful and vibrant ministry together with the wonderful people of Lubbock FCPC.

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Rev. Fredy Antonio Diaz Caedeno is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister serving as the Associate Pastor of Multicultural Ministries at the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Houston, Texas.  Fredy has a background in electrical engineering, a master's degree in Theology from International Biblical Seminary and currently is studying for a doctorate of ministry at Memphis Theological Seminary.  He was born in Manizales, Colombia, is married to Rev. Dr. Gloria Villa and they have one adult son, Benjamin.  Fredy has been part of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church since 1985 and is actively involved in the life of Trinity Presbytery serving as chair on the Ordained Clergy Task Force.
You can find more about Fredy's ministry at Iglesia Presbiteriana Cumberland de Houston on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTjwol4db-_EQH3SrYV9rg.

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The Rev. Dr. Jody Hill became the ninth President of Memphis Theological Seminary on January 1, 2020. Hill grew up in the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Falkner, Mississippi, and he is a direct descendant of Ephraim McLean, a founding member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

He was a three-year letterman on the Ole Miss Rebels Football Team from 1990 to 1992. Rev. Dr. Hill is a graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.S.), Memphis Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Min.). He served as a member of the Board of Trustees for Memphis Theological Seminary from 2008 to 2014, and two terms as Moderator of the Board.

In his prior position, Rev. Hill was the Vice President for Community Relations at Blue Mountain College in Mississippi. He has served full-time and bi-vocational pastorates in both the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is the New York Times Best Selling author of 38: The Chucky Mullins Effect. Jody and his wife, Monya, have two sons, Noah and Luke.

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Rev. Byrd Broyles was born in Johnson City, Tennessee and is a 4.5 generation Cumberland Presbyterian.  He has a degree in Special Education from East Tennessee State University and is a graduate from the Program of Alternate Studies.  He serves the Pleasant Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church outside of Columbia, Tennessee and is a Special Education teacher at Marshall County High School.  His claim to fame is being the first person to submit a resignation to a church within a week following ordination.  
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