Manager School

William Kenneth Stuart, III

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OBJECTIVE

! Seeking what might be God s next call in ministry serving a multi-staff church employing my passions, skills,

! leadership and experience in ministry to children and families while equipping and encouraging families in

! the discipleship of their children and as salt and light in their homes, community, nation and world.

EDUCATION

! Master of Divinity, June 1990

! Columbia International University (formerly Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions);

! Columbia, South Carolina

! Bachelor of Science in Social Work, August 1984

! Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL

MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

! Associate Pastor

! Southwood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Huntsville, AL: 2003-present

! Served as Director of Children/Family Ministry and Missions from 2003-2009. Ordained through Providence

! Presbytery as Teaching Elder in 2009, continuing ministry to children and families but passing off missions

! responsibilities in 2011. Responsible for staff of four and summer interns in support of children s ministry

! (infants - 6th grade).

Children/Family Ministry (2003-2012) - Cast vision, provided leadership and mobilized a committee of staff

and volunteers in ministry to children in Sunday School, Kids Worship, VBS, Fall Festival, summer events

and serving opportunities. Developed creative ministry venues for missions awareness, education and

global perspective. Served church families through home visits, resourcing and encouragement.

Conducted communicants classes.

Missions (2003-2011) - Provided leadership and staff representation for missions committee (domestic

and global). Provided oversight and administration of a $500,000 budget. Executed process of rede ning

focus/goals and realigning budget accordingly. Facilitated church planting partnerships in Mexico and

Peru. Led short-term mission trips.

! Director of Children s Ministry

! Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church (PCA), Lookout Mountain, TN: 1998-2003

! Provided leadership, oversight and direction to staff of four in Children s Ministry which included nursery and

! Mother s Day Out program. Developed a committee of leaders to own and move ministries forward in

! venues of Sunday School, Wednesday Night Programs, VBS and Children s Missions Conferences. Wrote

! curriculum for missions focus for Wednesday Night Program.

! Small Groups Coordinator/Administrator

! Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (PCA), Columbia, SC: 1991-1992

! Provided general oversight and care for adult groups. Service as staff representative to the missions

! committee. Performed administrative functions in areas of small groups, adult Sunday School program and

! church demographics. Assisted in leading Sunday morning worship and organizing the church s Rapid

! Visitation Program.

OTHER MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

! Public School Guest Speaker - St. Patrick s Day events at public schools in TN & AL presenting Patrick

! and his God: 2000-2012.

! Children s Missions Conference Speaker, North Hills Presbyterian Church, Meridianville, AL!

! Missions Conference Speaker, North Hills Presbyterian Church, Meridianville, AL!

William Kenneth Stuart, III

! Workshop Speaker for Catechisms and also Children s Mission, PCA Children s Ministry Conference,

! Simpsonville, GA !

! Children s Missions Education Coordinator, Columbia, SC, 1995-1997

! Cell Group Leader (with experience in multiplying groups), Columbia, SC, 1989-1996

! Graduate Intern for Church Planting Field Study - Southeast Asia, Summer 1989

! Missions Conference Speaker, Clarendon Baptist Church (SBC), Alcolu, SC, 1989

! Pulpit Supply, occasionally with Grace Community Church (PCA), McClellanville, SC during seminary and

! once with Eastbridge Presbyterian Church (PCA), Mt. Pleasant, SC

! Youth Sunday School Teacher & Youth Leader, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Tallahassee, FL,

! 1985-1987

! Operation Andrew Coordinator for Cornerstone Presbyterian Church during the 1986 Billy Graham

! Crusade, Tallahassee, FL

! Beach Evangelism Project - Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Spring Break, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1884

! !

SECULAR EXPERIENCE

! Painter/Remodeler (sole proprietor): 1993-1998

! Instructional Services Center Technician, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: 1990-1991

! Manager Trainee, Radio Shack, Tallahassee, FL: 1984-1986

! Community Youth Leader (intern), Leon Juvenile Detention Center, Florida Department of Health and

! Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, FL: 1984

! Group Leader (volunteer), Someplace Else Runaway Shelter, Tallahassee, FL: 1983-1984

PERSONAL

! Born - December 27, 1962 in IL

! Wife - Karan Sorlie Stuart (married 1988)

! Children - Wil (born 1990), Philip (born 1995) and Maggie (born 1995)

! Interests - History, all things Celtic, world missions, Cubs baseball.

REFERENCES

! Available upon request.

William Kenneth Stuart, III

TESTIMONY

Prior to October 1982, I would have assumed I was a Christian and yet had no concerns about the things of God or

eternity. I had been baptized as an infant in a main line denominational church, attended church with family and had a

stable, moral and loving upbringing along with my younger brother and sister. I was con rmed in the church and even

served as an acolyte. I knew I was not a Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or Jew. Since I went to church and believed in

God, I wrongly gured that I must be a Christian. Added to my spiritual blindness, I had a skewed view of sin and hell

that prevented me from understanding my need of the Savior.

From the early 1970 s, my mom had been having bouts with cancer. By the time I was in middle school, our family

had ceased going to church; something about the church not being there for my parents through my mother s battle

with cancer. The summer before my junior year at FSU, she was on her death bed at home being cared for by

Hospice. Questions about heaven, hell, God and life ooded my mind. What would happen to her after she died?

Would she go to heaven or hell? How can I be sure to stay out of one and get into the other? What would happen to

me at death? The questions burned with intensity. I sought answers through philosophy classes but came up with

nothing. Then, on my rst day of classes, she died. After returning to FSU from the funeral, a friend invited me to a

meeting of students with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship on campus. After the meeting, a student shared the gospel

with me. I had heard it before, but this time the gospel began to resonate and take root. That same student invited me

to attend a weekly Bible study group with him. Through the Bible study and by meeting with this student on a regular

basis, God began to show me my own sin and need of the Savior. I found the answers in Jesus Christ through His

atoning death on the cross for my sins. All the things I had falsely used to de ne myself as a Christian no longer held

any relevance. God had saved me, not because of anything by which I merited His favor, but by grace alone through

faith alone. In October 1982, I rested in Christ alone for what He had already done for me on the cross.

God had made me a new creature in Christ Jesus and the transformation He was accomplishing in me quickly

became noticeable. Before my salvation, I had declared business as my college major. My motive - take the world for

every penny I could get. After my salvation, I wanted only to invest in the lives of others with the gospel. The only

college major FSU offered that came close to supporting that was Social Work, the degree I completed in 1984.

During those last two years of college, God grew and shaped me through the ministry of Inter-Varsity and

Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCA). This was my rst introduction to a PCA church. I also became friends with

the campus Navigator staff and was involved in their alumni ministry after graduation. As God continued to shape and

mold me, I sensed an inward call to ministry which was outwardly con rmed. That con rmation led to starting

seminary in January of 1987.

While in seminary, I met and married Karan Sorlie. God graced us with three wonderful children while we lived in

Columbia, SC.

Involvement in campus ministry, seminary, lay ministry and church staff and have been the path He has taken me on

thus far. It has been lled with rejoicing and sadness. God s goodness and grace have been woven throughout all of

it. As God continues to lead, I will serve Him wherever He places me.

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