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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:

	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.
Awaiting Picture	Olajumoke Koiki (Treasurer) Waiting for some information about Ola.
	Maureen Lockhart Waiting for some information about Maureen.
	Garry Durant Waiting for some information about Garry.

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