CHARLIE KUTHE
Senior Pastor
I have served as Senior Pastor of Park Springs Bible Church since March 2015. Prior to moving to Texas, I was Senior Pastor of Georgia Plain Baptist Church in Georgia, Vermont for 11 years. I received my bachelor’s degree from University of Arizona in General Biology and my Masters of Divinity degree from Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary. Upon finishing my master degree, my wife and I were given the opportunity to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, where I obtained my Th.M. in the area of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology. In 2017 I received my Doctor of Ministry degree from Denver Seminary with a thesis focused on preaching. I currently serve on the board of directors for Reach All Nations International, a ministry focused on teaching and training indigenous pastors in India. My wife and I have been married for 20 years as of April 2019. We have two beautiful girls, Naomi and Hannah. I have a deep desire to have the church be a home for the hurting and passionately committed to communicating the Gospel to the lost. For fun I love spending time with my family, being out in the wood hunting and anything thrill related! The verse that frames the ministry God has called me to is 2 Timothy 2:10, “Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.”
AMANDA CHAPMAN
Worship Director
Park Springs was my home long before the Lord called me to lead here. In 2004, my husband Mark and I joined the church and served, worshiped, and grew spiritually for 11 years. We also grew as a family, with 5 children, Ethan, Connor, Noah, Wesley, and Maecie. In 2011, I felt the call to full-time worship ministry. I eventually pursued it outside of the church, but in 2020, the Lord began sovereignly and beautifully redirecting my path back “home.” In August of 2021, I accepted the position to return! We are so grateful and expectant for this next season with our Park Springs family! I love songwriting, pointing others to Jesus and His gospel through music, and serving and growing with musicians & media technicians. My family also means everything to me and we love Disney, sports, game nights, Tex-Mex, the beach, and movie nights.
WEST KEEBLE
Youth Director
I grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (Hook ‘Em Horns!) with a bachelor’s degree in education (and a minor in petroleum engineering). I joined the Park Springs staff as the Youth Director in May 2023, but I first recognized the Lord calling me into vocational ministry in college. God has led me to a lot of interesting work opportunities in the years since, including summer camp ministry, a zipline tour company, an afterschool program, a home remodeling crew, and most recently a missionary travel agency. Throughout all of it however, I knew that Lord’s long-term calling on my life was still for pastoral ministry. I love getting to serve in youth ministry because high school was a time when God did a lot of work in my own life to draw me near to Him. There is something so special about getting to walk with students through the joys and struggles of day-to-day life and working with families to point them toward the ways that the person and work of Jesus changes all of it! In my spare time I love spending time with friends, listening to good music, drinking good coffee, and traveling whenever I can.
MANDY MUIR
Children's Director
It has been a privilege to serve at Park Springs as Children’s Director since August 2014. My passion is partnering with parents, coming alongside and encouraging them as they teach and disciple their children to know Jesus and make Him known. I am of Taiwanese background, but was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy and then a Master’s degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education, which then launched me into missions as a 2nd grade teacher at an international school in China for a year, before becoming Children’s Director at Park Springs. My husband, Brian, and I got married in 2017 and I love hanging out with him and our kiddos, traveling, music, tennis, and delicious food!
ERIN KUTHE
Soul Care Coordinator
I grew up in a godly home with parents who love Jesus and made Him a priority in the life of our family, and I placed my faith in Christ at a young age. My childhood and adolescent years were spent being active in a local church, and my college years were a very formative time of spiritual growth for me. My husband, Charlie, and I were married in April of 1999. We have served the local church in ministry together for over 20 years, and we have two teenage daughters. I have a background in Education and began my career as a high school English and French teacher, a job I loved and continued in until the birth of our eldest daughter. I have been on staff at Park Springs as the Soul Care Coordinator since September of 2022. I am particularly passionate about helping others to live more fully in their relationship with Christ, even in the midst of life’s struggles, sufferings and difficult questions. As part of my service to the Church I also enjoy teaching within our Women’s Ministry and mentoring women. In my personal time I enjoy traveling, reading a good book, and long conversations with family and friends. A great joy in my life is the privilege of being mom to my girls, while partnering with my husband in ministry.
JIM ADAMS
Elder Chairman
I grew up in the small town of De Soto, Missouri. Although I attended church regularly during my childhood and teen years, I had no understanding of the gospel until some classmates at the University of Missouri (who were part of the Navigator’s ministry) helped me understand how I could put my trust in Christ alone for my salvation.
After practicing law for several years in Houston TX, God led me to Dallas Theological Seminary, and, after graduation, I served as a missionary to Argentina, El Salvador (as a pastor) and Guatemala (as a seminary professor).
God richly blessed me with Jenny as my wife and we spent 23 wonderful years in Latin America as missionaries with Camino Global (CAM) before moving to the US in July of 2013. We have been married for 29 years and have two sons, Caleb and Nathan, who were both born overseas and who are a great joy for us.
Jenny and I have attended Park Springs since October of 2013, and it would be an honor to serve with the elder board. During my time at Park Springs my ministry focus has been in the prison ministry (with Ken Wheeler), teaching, and serving as a small group leader.
BOB BODIEN
Elder
I grew up in Irving, Texas and lived there until 2004, when Mary and I moved to the Colorado mountains to serve at a Christian camp for 5 years. We have now lived in Mansfield and attended PSBC for 8 years. I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior in 1969, at the film,“The Cross and the Switchblade.” Thanks to my parents, I got plugged into a great church and began to grow in my walk with Him. God has graciously provided solid Biblical teaching throughout my life. Mary and I will have been married 39 years this November. We have been blessed with two married sons and two grandchildren, who are a tremendous joy to us both. I have had the privilege to serve in a number of ministries, including 10 years in full-time ministry and as a deacon and an elder in prior years. It is an honor to be able to serve the Lord as an elder at PSBC.
ANDREW CUMMINS
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Elder
Andrew Cummins was raised in a Christian single-parent home and gave his life to Christ at a young age. He was a lukewarm Christian for his teen years until the age of 21 during a tough phase of family life when he made Jesus Lord in his life. Andrew is from Ireland and met his wife Lea there. He subsequently moved to Texas where they married. They have two daughters, Caitlin and Chloe, and they all started attending Park Springs Bible Church as a family in 2017.
Andrew has served in many areas of the church since joining and is a big believer in growing in community with each other through serving.
BARRY JOHNSON
Elder
I received Christ as savior in 1976 while attending a Southern Baptist church and being active in the youth group. But I was a lukewarm Christian until I decided to make Jesus lord of my life at a retreat in college. I profited from the discipleship emphasis of the Navigator ministry for the next few years and gained a solid Biblical foundation for the road ahead. My life verse came from those years… Colossians 2:9-10, “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ who is the head over every power and authority.” Since then, I’ve been growing in my faith, learning to balance grace and truth in my walk with the Lord and in relationships with people.
I’ve been attending PSBC since 1997 with my wife, Rebecca. We’re empty-nesters with four grown children and seven grandchildren. I’ve been involved in several of the church’s ministries through the years, and currently lead a Home Group and teach a Sunday morning class. I love this church and the people who attend it – we’re all learning together how to live in the power of God’s grace.
LEE MORRISON
Elder
Lee Morrison was born in Hurst and bounced around the metroplex for the first part of his life. When he was nine, he went to live with his dad and step-mom in Austin, and stayed there through High School. Growing up his family did not attend church regularly, but shortly after moving to Austin he started going to a church that was close to his house with his sister. Over the next couple years, he came to know the gospel and accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. After trying to do things his own way during his early adult life he realized that God had a plan and was in control, so he renewed his relationship with Him and has not looked back.
In 2019, after serving in the Marine Corps for 20 years, his family was fortunate enough to be led back home to Texas and they are amazed at what God has done over the last five years here at Park Springs where Lee has served as a Deacon for the past 3 years.
Lee has been married to his wife Darrellee for 15 years and they have a son, SJ, and a daughter, Anna.
TOM NYSTROM
Elder
Our family has been attending Park Springs since 1987. I started serving in the nursery, then the 2 year old class, then filled a temporary vacancy as a 3rd grade Sunday School teacher. “Temporary” has passed the 20 year mark . . . That’s a lot of wonderful years, wonderful kids, lots of popsicle stick Bible buildings, and of course lots of Bible boat and chariot races. A few years ago I did a 6-year stint as a Deacon. I guess the fact that the “towering pine trees” I promised (the little ones by the Reese building doors) are still only 5 feet tall took me out of the running for a return to that position.
A few favorite bible verses:
Psalm 19 – The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands . . . let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in your sight.
Phil 4:8 – Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these thing.
PHIL VIDRINE
Elder
I grew up in a home where going to church every Sunday was a must. There was an emphasis on duty but not on a personal relationship with Christ. I accepted Christ at a revival my senior year in high school through a church youth group I was attending with my best friends. I accepted Christ at that time but did not really have much spiritual growth until after college. I was married with one child when I started going to a workplace Bible study. That is where my hunger for the Word of God and the teaching to back up what I did believe about God and Christ began.
I moved to Arlington from Baton Rouge, La., at the end of 1982, and began attending Park Springs Bible Church in 1983. The Pastor at the time, Joe Falkner, was an exceptional teacher and would teach on Sundays through a book of the Bible. I could not wait to get to church on Sunday to take notes, learn what the Word was saying to us, and to grow in my faith. After many years of attending church and Sunday School classes and Bible studies, I had an opportunity to teach a class. I taught for about 17 years at Park Springs, in a Sunday School and Small Group setting.
I also had an opportunity to serve Park Springs at times in the music ministry (the choir) and drama to a small extent. I was on the Elder Board for a period of 6 years where I served 1 or 2 years as Chairman of the Board. I also have been on two mission trips to Kenya, which were a true blessing. In 2014, I lost my first wife of 37 years to a very short 105-day bout with gall bladder cancer. I pulled back from teaching class to take a break from that role shortly after that.
God has truly blessed me by bringing my current wife Cindy into my life. We are both in a unique club in that we are both widowed. Cindy is also a believer and we both are involved in a PSBC small group, which we really enjoy and cherish those friendships. We have combined our families and we currently have 4 adult children (3 of them are married) and 4 grandchildren. We are blessed in the fact that our children and their spouses all get along really well and are all following the Lord!!