Staff
Mark Seekins (Lead Pastor)
mark@gracecrossing.com 
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901.853.3503, Ext. 1
Interests/Hobbies: Reading, Running, Hockey, Anything Outdoors, Geocaching (geocaching.com). Most of all spending time with my wife and two boys!
Person I'd love to have coffee with: Steve Jobs (I just want him to give me an Apple discount)...or Ryan Miller (assuming a hockey player even drinks coffee!).
Movies: Say Anything, Spy Game, Master and Commander, Lord Of The Rings, Anything by M. Night Shyamalan.
Books: Total Church, Exponential, Deep Church, Anything by Mark Driscoll.
Background: I grew up in New York (still cheer for the Bills and Sabres!), moved to Texas when I was 10. Married Kristie after college...the most amazing woman I know! We have two boys...Bryson and Caedmon...can't imagine life without them in it! I met Christ when I was an 8th grader and was called into full time ministry as a junior in high school. Life for us is a series of simple priorities...God, Family, The Church (in that order).
Michael Cooper (Worship Minister)
michael@gracecrossing.com
2coopers.blogspot.com
901.853.3503, Ext. 2
Birth Date: Nov. 10
Interests/Hobbies: music, coffee, sports, hanging out with my girls
Person I'd love to have coffee with: Lyle Lovett
Movies: Shawshank, Field of Dreams, Arlington Road
Books: Crazy love, Donald Miller stuff, Children's lit,
Background: I am from North Alabama. Lived in Arkansas for college, teaching, and children's ministry (13 years or so) before we moved to Collierville in the summer of 2008. I met Mindy in college and we were married in May of 2002. We have 2 girls Jaci and Evvi and they are keeping us hopping. I grew up in a Christian family and am very thankful. I gave my live to Jesus in the 8th grade and continue on the journey each and every day...
Zac Lambrecht (Youth Minister)
zac@gracecrossing.com
901.853.3503, Ext. 3
Birth Date: Dec. 20th
Interests/Hobbies: I enjoy coaching wrestling at the local high school and playing disc golf, along with reading, and hanging out with my two Labrador retrievers, Cooper and JoJo.
Person(s) I'd love to have coffee with: Louie Giglio and David Crowder
Movies: The Sandlot, Jeremiah Johnson, Ocean’s Eleven, It’s a Wonderful Life, Big Fish, Three Amigo’s, The Princess Bride
Books: Too many to list so I’ll go with some author’s that have blessed me- C.S. Lewis, Rob Bell, Francis Chan and Henri Nouwen
Background: I’m the son of two individuals who had their lives radically transformed by God as adults. Growing up in their home taught me what it meant to live a life for Christ and convinced me to chose ministry as a vocation and way of life. I’ve been blessed to be in full time ministry at Grace Crossing since 2003. I graduated from Harding University with a bible degree and am currently finishing up a graduate degree in apologetics. I’m blessed to have an amazing wife, Lauren, to share the rest of this life and the next with. She gives me peace and passion, and she's an incredible doctor.
I’m blessed to have a family that is rooted in the truth and who have taught me most of what I know. I’m blessed to have a fellowship of believers that inspires me and friends that love me, even though I have many faults. I’m blessed to have a group of teens to share my story with and the story of their maker.
Elizabeth Harville (Children's Minister)
elizabeth@gracecrossing.com
901.853.3503, ext. 4
Birth Date: April 15
Interests/Hobbies: I love to cook and especially love entertaining at my home. I play the violin and especially enjoy getting to play in a worship setting. I am constantly looking for a new piece of furniture to redo or recreate. My perfect weekend would include being on a boat at the lake and getting to wakeboard. And of course my all time favorite things to do are spending time with friends and family and my dog Paisley.
Persons I’d love to have coffee with: Jim Wideman, Jack Canfield, Martha Stewart
Movies: I like really lame movies, you probably don’t want to know.
Books: The Traveler’s Gift, The Success Principles, Children’s Ministry Books, New Every Morning
Background: I was born and raised in Memphis, TN. Followed my love to Mississippi State where they also happened to have the major I was looking for. I had an amazing internship experience at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, then graduated with a degree in Child Life, in December of 2006. Shortly after, I married the man of my dreams in March 2007. I began my life after college working at Hope House, which is a preschool for kids infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. I developed a huge passion for Hope House and the families they serve. Through a series of events God picked me up and dropped me here at Grace Crossing Church where I get to love on amazing families and spend time with some awesome kiddos! My husband has his own landscaping/lawncare business and I am blessed to be married to such an amazing, hardworking man of God and to have a job that truly makes a difference.
Shepherds
Ken Gilbert
Home Town: Magnolia, Arkansas
Spouse: Jackie; we were married in 1976
Years at Grace Crossing: 8 years
Spiritual Gifts: Administration; Helps/Serving; Giving
Where I use my gifts: Praying for my Shepherd Circle; encouraging members and staff at GCC; looking for ways to meet needs of my Shepherd Circle in a low-key and personal manner.
Chris Hanson
Home Town: Memphis, TN
Spouse: Linda
Years at Grace Crossing: 4 years.
Spiritual Gifts: administration, mercy, teaching, helps/service
Where I use my gifts: Serving as an administrative shepherd, helping direct Grace Crossing's social justice ministry, participating in the worship ministry, and occasionally teaching
Hobbies: music, computer 'tinkering', spending time with my family, playing Settlers of Catan
Favorite Scripture: Psalm 139
Jeff Harville
Dennis Norris
Home town: Memphis, TN
Spouse: Janice; my high school sweetheart & best friend
Hobbies: Hunting, fishing, golf, movies, grilling out with family
Years at Grace Crossing: 12 years
Favorite Scripture Verse: Romans 8:1 - There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
Spiritual Gifts & Talents: helping, administration, wisdom, faith; repairing
Where I use my gifts: Serving as a pastoral shepherd, praying for my shepherd circle, Grace Works Ministry - repairing homes for people in our community, helping with building & grounds maintenance; doing behind the scene projects
Shane O'Connor
Home Town: Memphis, TN
Spouse: Alesia, married in 1985
Years at Grace Crossing: 3 years
Spiritual Gifts: Teaching and encouraging
Where I use my gifts: In everyday life through teachable moments and in more structured ways too
Hobbies: Don't really have any hobbies...use "free" time for one-on-one transparent discipling, exploring various forms of worship, centering prayer, long walks and family
Favorite Scripture: Ephesians 1:18-19 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe
Steve Pate
Home Town: Memphis, TN
Spouse: Danita
Hobbies: Golf, fishing, University of Memphis sports and being with my family.
Years at Grace Crossing: 7 years
Favorite Scripture: Psalm 139: 1-18
Spiritual Gifts: Leadership, Administration, Discernment
Where I use my gifts: Serving as an administrative shepherd at GCC