Helping Hands
Our Team
We may be biased on this one but we have a great team here at Hillcrest.
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JIM LOCKE
Senior Pastor
Jim Locke is the Senior Pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida, where he has served since 2005. Prior to following God’s call to Florida, he served for ten years as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Forsyth, Missouri, near Branson.
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Pastor Locke is an honors graduate of Vanderbilt University, and completed his graduate studies in Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He has been married for nearly 40 years to his wife Judy, and has two adult children and two grandsons.
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Staff Leadership
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Savanna Kreuser
Creative Communications Project Manager
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Support team
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Kayla Crane
Kids Ministry Worship/Production Coordinator
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Logan Fischer
Worship Intern
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Melanie Johnson
Kids Ministry Assistant
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Michalyn Kimbrough
Kids Ministry Resource Coordinator
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Laura Meyer
Childcare Coordinator
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Tucker Philley
Recreation/College Intern
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Amy Sebasty
Facilities Steward | Spanish Trail
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