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Staff Members

Board of Directors

  • Darlene Baker

    Vice President

    Darlene is married to Sam Baker. They met in 1967 at the Student Center (currently known as RFC). They have been members of North Boulevard church of Christ for over 50 years. They have two grown children.

  • Ben Bohannon

  • Jabbar Buchanan

    Jabbar is an MTSU graduate, RFC alumni and blessed to have lived at the Timothy house. Jabbar and his wife Jessie have one child. Jabbar has a passion for serving in ministry and in other capacities. He serves as a youth ministry leader amongst a variety of church ministry needs.

  • Beth Bugg

    Beth is a graduate of MTSU and an RFC alumni. She lives in Murfreesboro with her son.. She works at Nissan as a financial analyst and is a member of the North Boulevard West Campus.

  • Andrew Collins

    Andrew Collins lives and works in Tullahoma, TN as youth and children's minister at the church of Christ at Cedar Lane. He is married to Rachel Collins whom he met during his time at RFC from 1995 to 2000, and they have three beautiful children ranging from elementary school to high school.

  • Michael Dehoff

  • Casie Higginbotham

    Secretary

    Casie is an alum of MTSU and met her husband, Michael, at RFC in the mid 1990's. Michael and Casie have 2 children and Casie teaches in the undergraduate Public Health Program at MTSU.

  • Mary Hill

    Mary Hill was a 1986 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in early childhood education. She was blessed to live at the Christian Student Center for three of the four years that she was there, as well as some time during graduate work.

    After teaching for four years, she became a nanny and has traveled all over the country doing that for the last 35 years.

    She is currently a member at North Boulevard Church of Christ.

  • Zach Holt

    Zach Holt lives in Murfreesboro and attends North Boulevard Church of Christ East campus. He works in Nolensville, TN doing IT for the school district. Zach met his wife Rachel at RFC where he was active from 1997-2002, they have two teenage boys, and have been married for over twenty years.

  • Neil Honey

    Neil Honey is an RFC alumni and former RFC intern. He graduated MTSU in 2006 with a B.S. in Economics before attending Lipscomb University where he received an M.A. in Christian Ministry. Neil met his wife Julie at MTSU and they have two daughters, Rylee and Livvy. After college Neil held several ministry roles including student minister, children’s minister, college & young adult minister, and outreach minister. He left full-time ministry in 2019 and has been working in marketing and sales while staying active in church and remaining passionate about seeing others know and live in God’s love.

  • Sarah Johnson

    Sarah Johnson was the women’s minister at RFC for over twenty years. She is an integral part of the board because of her experience. She loves ministering to diverse christians and has actively served the Chinese Ministry at North Boulevard Church of Christ for many years.

  • John Kirby

    John is the son of a church of Christ preacher and is currently attending College Hills Church of Christ in Lebanon. He and his wife were married almost 11 years ago and have a daughter Jonah who is almost three years old. John attended MTSU and was an active member of RFC from the fall of 2001 to the spring of 2003. He opened an optometry office called Modern Eye Gallery in 2015.

  • Brian Ragan

    Brian is married to Carol Hall Ragan and they have two adult children, Patrick and Emma. Carol and Brian attend Walnut Street church of Christ in Dickson, Tennessee. Brian was a student at MTSU from 1983–1988 and participated in RFC (aka the Christian Student Center) from 1986–1988. He practices law in Dickson, Tennessee with the firm of Reynolds, Potter, Ragan & Vandivort, PLC.

  • John Schmidt

    President

  • Richard Templeton