NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Children 's Education Coordinator
Becky was raised in Emporia, Kansas, before she attended Oklahoma Christian University and received her degree in speech/language pathology. She has worked at Northside since April 2003. Becky maintains the database and the church websites.
She and her husband Kreg met on a summer mission program in Germany while attending Oklahoma Christian and married in 1986. They have attended Northside since 1985. They have been blessed with two children. Kaleb and his wife, Calie, have four children and live in Wichita. Their daughter Becca and her husband Jacob (Allbritton), have one son and live in Edmond, Oklahoma. Becky enjoys reading, playing games, snow skiing, playing with the grandkids and traveling with her family as often as possible.
Job Titles:
- Building & Maintenance Manager
Job Titles:
- Adult Education Coordinator
Jeff started as the youth minister at Northside Church in January 2020. Before that he was in sales for 12 years. Jeff is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and served overseas in Iraq. He also serves Northside by working with the ministry of Know Your Bible, a television program that seeks to get people into the word of God and have a deeper relationship with Christ through the power of his word.
Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, hiking, fishing, and anything outdoors. He has a great passion for sharing the Gospel with young men and women and equipping them to be faithful and productive disciples of Jesus Christ.
Mark began working with Northside as the involvement minister in May, 2004. He moved here from Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he and his wife Kimberlee lived for 25 years.
Mark graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in 1978 and worked in information technology for Conoco for 24 years. During that time, he served as a deacon for 16 years and an elder for 5 years at the Grand Avenue Church of Christ.
For a long time, Mark dreamed of becoming a full-time minister, and in 2002 he was able to see that dream become a reality when he became the youth minister for Grand Avenue. As much as he loved youth ministry, though, Mark felt that God was leading him in a different direction, and that is what brought him to Northside.
Mark and Kimberlee have two grown children and three grandchildren.
Sandy grew up in the Wichita area. She and her husband, Shawn, met in the youth group in Augusta, KS, and have been married since 1978. They have four children and nine grandchildren. Brianne, and her husband, Aaron (Banning), and daughters live in Wichita and attend Northside. Tara and her husband Clay (Symes), live in Edmond, OK with their children. Zach and his wife, Amanda, and their children live in Houston, TX. And Brock and his wife, Meagan, and their children live in Edmond, OK. Sandy enjoys spending time with her grandkids, reading, quilting, and taking family vacations.
Sandy has worked at Northside since August of 1996. She manages the church office, takes care of building scheduling and other general administrative duties.
Job Titles:
- Director of "Know Your Bible"
Steve came to Northside in 1957, when his dad, Louis, became minister. Steve and Cindy met at North High and remained at Northside until he graduated with an industrial engineering degree from Wichita State University in 1971. He worked in manufacturing management until 1999 when he became the full time pulpit minister at Northside until 2016. Since 1986 Steve has preached part time and directed the "Know Your Bible" television program.
Toby is the preaching minister at Northside Church. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian University in 1999. He came to Northside in 2001 to serve as the youth minister. In 2010, he joined the Know Your Bible TV ministry, a TV program that reaches millions of people each year with its simple Q & A format and free Bible study course offer. In 2015, Toby began preaching full time for Northside.
Toby enjoys helicopter skiing, free solo rock climbing, bungee jumping, cliff-diving and, in the case of the first four, wildly exaggerating his biography. More accurately, he enjoys reading a good book, encouraging others, being with his sweet wife, and enjoying time with his family. He and Christy have two children.
Carla and I are originally from Oklahoma, married 32 years ago on March 4, 1990. God has richly blessed us with three children. Myles is an Air Force ammunition technician stationed at Aviano Air Base in Italy. Mia is a full-time flight attendant based in Dallas. And Morganne is currently in graduate school near Houston. Each one of our kids was enthusiastically involved in collegiate-level sports. Basketball and track & field were their chosen paths after high school. Our kids were actually the driving force behind our placing membership at Northside in early 1999.
Carla and I transitioned to Wichita after time spent at Hellikon Air Base in Athens, Greece, and Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands. We were stationed at McConnell AFB from March 1993 until February 2006, and then we transferred to the 190th Air Refueling Wing in Topeka. While in Topeka, we placed membership at Central Church of Christ and worked with the youth program as well as group-based Bible studies. After I retired from active duty in March 2010, we relocated to Edmond, OK, in August 2011, placed membership at the Memorial Road Church of Christ, and began our private practice, Process To Progress Counseling Services, near downtown Edmond. In January of 2013, I accepted a full-time position as the on-staff therapist for the Care & Counseling Ministry at Memorial Road.
Our time spent in Wichita, specifically at Northside, formulated foundational principles that provided opportunities for us to homeschool, attend marriage enrichment seminars, and value the wealth of blessings that come from being active participants in God's spiritual family. We look forward to reconnecting and exploring new relationships with our extended family at Northside. We are blessed to be back at Northside and I'm happy to be on staff since May of 2022.