Rev. Toby Everett,
Pastor
I have been in full-time service since August of 1974 serving on staff in various capacities such as Minister of Music, Youth, Education, and Associate Pastor/Education for ten years and as a Pastor for 18 years.
It has been my joy to serve many wonderful churches in West, Middle and East Tennessee. I have led or participated in various mission projects of evangelism and church construction in Tennessee, Indiana, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, and London, England. I have also worked with Tennessee Baptist Convention leading workshops, conferences, and serving as camp Pastor in Youth Camp for 17 summers. God has provided me opportunity to preach revivals in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kansas, and Indiana.
My interests are sports of all types. I enjoy playing tennis, golf, basketball, and watching football. I also love to spend time with my family, especially my wife and two grandsons. Other hobbies include working out, playing guitar, and singing.

E-Mail Toby
Back to top of page

Rev. Ronald McConnell,
Minister of Education
Ron has served churches in Alabama and Tennessee for twenty-six years as Minister of Education and/or Church Business Administrator. He has helped to develop two church missions in northern Alabama and has led both national and international mission trips. Ron has also been active as a Sunday School and Discipleship conference leader for the Alabama and Tennessee Baptist Conventions.
Janice, Ron's wife, is an elementary teacher. She enjoys children's ministry and has also been active in Sunday School conference leadership. Ron and Janice have one grandson, Ben, who lives with them and two grown daughters, Becky and Beth. Becky and her husband Brad live in El Dorado, Arkansas. Beth lives here in Knoxville and is a nurse.
Ron enjoys spending time with his family, woodworking, and old cars.

E-Mail Ron
Back to top of page

Rev. Greg Rester,
Minister of Music
Greg began serving his first church in 1974 as a part time Music Director while a senior in High School and continued in similar positions in several churches while in college and seminary. After seminary he served churches in a full-time capacity as Minister of Music, Music & Youth, Music & Education, and Associate Pastor. In the summer of 1998 he began serving churches as Minister of Music in a bi-vocational capacity while working full time for a computer software company. He has served in churches in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. Greg accepted the call to serve as Minister of Music of Alice Bell Baptist Church in May of 2006.
Greg's wife, Vickie, is a preschool teacher at First Baptist Concord Preschool. They have three children: Jonathan, a graduate of Carson-Newman College, is the Band Director of Holston Middle School and Assistant Band Director at Gibbs High School; Katie, is attending college and living in south Mississippi (which is where Greg & Vickie grew up); and Kyle, a member of the Army Reserves, is attending Pellissippi State College.

Email Greg

Back to top of page

Bo Cumberland,
Minister of Students
I have been in the ministry since 1996. I am a graduate of Mississippi College. I have a BS Degree in Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design. I have a passion for youth.
I have felt the calling into youth ministry ever since I was a youth struggling to make sense of all of this. My ministry is based around 1 rule- love people right where they are, accept them right where they are and let God do the healing, growing, changing, and converting. It is my desire and passion to see people of all backgrounds come together and worship the True God that created all of them. I firmly believe that if we love people then they will open up and let God heal them and change them.

Email Bo
Back to top of page

Drucilla Hodges,
Ministry Assistant
Dru worked in the medical field as a medical transcriptionist and supervisor for 20 years. She then felt lead to leave the medical field and to enter Christian ministry. Dru is a graduate of Johnson Bible College where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Bible with a minor in Christian Counseling. She has been at Alice Bell Baptist as Ministry Assistant, since June 1996. She says "I have found working in a church office both challenging and rewarding in many ways."
Away from the office, she enjoys reading and exercising. She and her husband Jim have two children, one son-in-law and one daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.

E-Mail Dru
Back to top of page
©2007 Alice Bell Baptist Church