First Church, Jasper, staff change

Dennis R. Culbreth is the new pastor of First Church, Jasper, effective May 23. He comes from Eastside Church, Marietta, Ga., where he served as interim associate pastor in charge of discipleship and community outreach. He has served as senior assistant to the president for the North American Mission Board and several churches in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. Culbreth holds a bachelor’s degree in religion with a minor in psychology from Samford University in Birmingham, master of divinity from Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and doctor of ministry with an emphasis on church growth and evangelism from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He also has done an additional doctoral level study at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Culbreth and his wife, Marybeth, have three children.