Leadership Team
The leadership team of Temple Hill Baptist Church consists of several people:
Pastor Marion Markwei
Marion
became our pastor in July 2008. Was born and raised in Sierra Leone. She was
forced to flee her homeland to neighbouring Guinea after a rebel war where
her husband and two sisters and many others were killed by rebels in 1999.
She was also shot in both legs. She lived in Guinea as a refugee until her
family was given safe passage to Sweden, where she lived until 2007 when her
family moved to the UK.
Marion is a woman of genuine spirit, striving each day to grow and to
help others too. Before her arrival, the church was in danger of closing its
doors but thank God she joined us at the right time and through her faith
and encouragement we are still functioning and through faith we would soon
complete the building renovation work that is on-going.
The pastoral team deacons, desire to build a church that would honour and
glorify God through a vibrant and growing family of people of all ages and
backgrounds. We want to be rooted in the Word of God and prayer, completely
united in our love for Jesus and in our love and care for each other.
Together, we want to become strong, effective and obedient disciples of
Jesus, growing to become more like Him, with every member empowered by the
Holy Spirit, discovering and fruitfully using their gifts.
We want to fulfil His great commission and see His kingdom expand and
flourish in this/our neighbourhood of Temple Hill and beyond.
Above we want to reach out to our community to provide practical and
spiritual support to all ages and backgrounds.
Assistant Pastor Nathan Johnson
Nathan
was recently accepted as Assistant Pastor here at Temple Hill Baptist is one
of seven, he has two sisters and for brothers. Nathan’s parents were
committed Christians and he and his siblings were encouraged to walk in the
ways of God. He made a personal commitment to the Christian faith at the age
of 10yrs.
Nathan has lived in Dartford for most of his life, he was married at 23
and father of 2 by the time he was 29yrs. At 35yrs his marriage broke down,
which led to him going into a serious decline. He ended up jobless, homeless
and penniless. Furthermore his faith in God had diminished and he became
drink and drug dependent.
His brother Dave who was straight talking, reminded him of his commitment
to God. Nathan returned to Church and recommitted to his faith in Jesus, he
soon found work and somewhere to live. He asked God for a new wife; soon he
met Dawn, the love of his life. Between them they have four children 2 girls
and 2 boys, who are all now young adults. Nathan having experienced life
without God is committed to sharing the Christian faith to others. Living on
Temple Hill he wants to work in this community. He wants to help people in
their practical and spiritual needs.
The church deacons
Pastor Marion and Nathan have a large responsibility and it would be impossible to
manage this without a team of deacons. This team share the responsibility of
running the church. There are many aspects of running a church which go
unnoticed by most people but really, a church is like a business. The
deacons consider finance, building structure and maintenance, health and
safety, young people’s safeguarding, hall hire, cleaning, the list is never
ending.
The
deacons and pastors meet every 2 months to make decisions about actions and policy. The
deacons are:
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Geof Hillier (Secretary) Geof is an IT
Trainer by profession but spends much of his time working at the
church. He is responsible for ensuring our building meets all the
current legislation, health and safety etc and he also keeps the web
site up to date as often as he can. Geof can also be found on the piano most Sundays
leading our worship and sometimes preaching as well. Geof lives
nearby on Temple Hill with his family and his cat. |
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Olajumoke Koiki (Treasurer) Waiting for
some information about Ola.
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Maureen Lockhart Waiting for some
information about Maureen.
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Garry Durant Waiting for some information
about Garry. |
If
you want to talk about any aspect of the church, these are the people who
can help (or at least point you in the right direction). |