Deerfoot Church, Trussville, staff change

Mark Searby is the new interim pastor of Deerfoot Church, Trussville. He currently works as the director of doctor of ministry studies at Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham. Searby previously served as administrator at Lincoln Christian College and Seminary in Lincoln, Ill. Prior to that he served as pastor of churches in Illinois for 24 years. He began serving Jan. 4. Searby and his wife, Linda, have two children and four grandchildren.