Rev. Toby Everett,
Pastor
Pastor Toby has been in full-time service since August of 1974 serving on staff in various capacities such as Minister of Music, Youth, Education, and as Associate Pastor/Education for ten years. He has been a Pastor for 26 years.

It has been his joy to serve many wonderful churches in West, Middle and East Tennessee. He has led or participated in various mission projects of evangelism and church construction in Tennessee, Indiana, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, London, England, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Port of Spain, Trinidad. He has also worked with Tennessee Baptist Convention leading workshops, conferences, and serving as camp Pastor in Youth Camps for 17 summers. God has provided him opportunity to preach revivals in Mississippi, Tennessee, Kansas, and Indiana.

His interests are sports of all types. He enjoys playing tennis, golf, basketball, and watching football. He also loves spending time with family, especially his wife Janet and four grandchildren Levi, Mitchell, Gracie, and Carter. Other hobbies include working out, playing guitar, and singing.

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Rev. Ronald McConnell,
Minister of Education
Ron has served churches in Alabama and Tennessee for 32 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.

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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 at 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 and one grandson. Jonathan is the Band Director of Holston Middle School and Assistant Band Director at Gibbs High School. Katie, her husband Jared, and their son Rhett live in south Mississippi (which is where Greg &Vickie grew up). Kyle and his wife Katie live here in Knoxville and are attending Pellissippi State College following Kyle’s return from his recent deployment to Iraq with the Army Reserves.

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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 spending time with family and friends, reading and exercising. She and her husband Jim have two children and three grandchildren.

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Andy Watson,
Minister of Youth
Andy has been serving in local churches as a youth minister since 2000. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Biblical Studies from Boyce Bible College in Louisville, KY in 2006. He has a passion for the youth ministry and missions around the world. He served as a short-term missionary from 2006-2008 in Israel, working with the Israeli and Arab youth, doing conversational outreaches, and serving the local congregations throughout the country. He met his wife, Sybilla, on the mission field as she, too, served as a short-term missionary for a year in Jerusalem. They were married in 2008 after coming off the field and were blessed with a son, Elijah, in 2009. Sybilla, from Germany, has been teaching Andy German, and both love the Hebrew and Arabic languages. Andy and Sybilla love to travel and have been to numerous countries between the both of them. Some of those countries include Germany, England, Malta, Czech Republic, Spain, Denmark, Luxembourg, Turkey, Egypt, and of course, Israel. Andy enjoys spending time with his family playing in the backyard or walking around the block. He also enjoys sports, reading novels, aquariums, languages, and Israel. He has been on staff at Alice Bell since May 2011.

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