Pawleys Island Community Church Staff

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Don has served our church family for over 26 years. He is passionate about reaching those who are far from God and seeing all believers become fully devoted followers of Jesus. He has been extremely happily married to Ginny for 37 years. They have 3 amazing sons, James (Jackie), Nathan, Daniel, and 1 amazing grandson Levi.

Ginny Williams - Guest Services Director

Ginny has served our church, alongside Don, for 26 years. She loves helping people find their place of significance and service at PICC. She loves to build and equip teams that create a welcoming atmosphere on our campus. She enjoys spending time with her family, cooking and working out.

JD - Worship Director

JD joined the staff February 2021. He previously served with churches in Nevada, Texas, and California and is passionate about experiencing and sharing God’s relentless love and grace together in worship. JD, his wife Celeste, and their son, Colin, live in Pawleys Island.

David Rhodes - Pastor of Spiritual Formation

David joined the staff in 2013. He has served in pastoral ministry for over thirty years. David is passionate to see lives changed through relationship with Jesus Christ. He enjoys golf, tennis, working out, and time with family. He has been married to his wife, Debbie for 45 years. They have two married sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren.

Penny McClellan - Admin Assistant

Penny joined the staff in January of 2020. She began attending PICC with husband Brent and twin children Caleb and Calee in 2003 after moving here from West Virginia. Penny is passionate about serving her church family and community.

Mike Fields - Director of Operations/Missions

Mike began attending PICC in 1996 and joined the staff in January 2009. Mike & Mary have five children Ryan (Whitney), Elizabeth (Chris), Micah (Sami), Bryan and Jordan (Courtney). Mike enjoys spending time with his grandchildren Gideon, Caroline, Jackson, Oliver, and Luke. He is passionate about serving in Pawleys Island.

Marcia Harrison - Book Keeper

Marcia joined the staff in 2010 and blesses both the PICC and PICA financial team. She lives in Georgetown with her husband John. They have three children: Rachel, Jonathan and Kaitlyn, who all attended Pawleys Island Christian Academy.

Keith Spires - Pastor of Student Ministries

PICC has been Keith’s home church since childhood. He is honored to serve the Junior & Senior High students and is excited about teaching God’s word. His focus is helping youth recognize ministry opportunities, using their gifts to serve their family, friends and community. Keith and his wife Devon, along with their 4 children, love the beach, warm weather, and especially surfing.

Chelsea Lankford - Elementary Director

Chelsea joined the staff November 2022. She has taught preschool at PICA and volunteered in our children’s ministries programs for years. She lives in Pawleys Island with husband Justin and their four children, Tanner, Mason, Ella Kate and Blakely. She is passionate about teaching kids about Jesus, and helping them grow in their personal relationships with Him.

Kim Ackerman - Director of Preschool Ministries

Kim joined the staff in January 2024. She lives in Pawleys Island with her husband, Brad, and two children. From a young age, she has enjoyed serving and ministering to kids though teaching Sunday school, Vacation Bible schools, and mission trips. Kim is passionate about sharing the love of Jesus with children here in our community.

Sondra Plummer - Director of Nursery Ministries

Sondra joined our staff in January 2024. She loves being the first touch for little ones in the nursery & their parents. She sees it as an opportunity to build trust with families and to walk with them in their journey with Jesus. Sondra taught middle school at Christian schools in MA for 17 years as she & her husband, Mike built their own family. Their 2 children are now married & living in SC. Stephanie & Corbett attend PICC as well and have blessed her with her most favorite role yet, Grandma.

Val Gundling - Facilities and Ground

Val was born in Wheeling, WV, met his wife Auddie at Bethany College 52 years ago and have been married for 48 years. Val has a daughter, 2 sons, and 9 grandchildren, and they are all awesome! Val visited our church for the first time in the summer of 1989 and have loved it ever since. “Being a part of this incredible church is truly a gift from God and the staff, volunteers, fellow Christians, and school children are an amazing blessing.” - Val

Bruce Bailey - Tech Director

Bruce and his wife Beth have five children and four grandchildren. He enjoys playing golf and watching football. But mostly, he's grateful for the opportunity to use his gifts to benefit God's kingdom and his church.

Mo Meares - Media Guy

Mo has been a part of PICC since his day one, and became a staff member in May 2024. He enjoys riding his e-bike, photography, video games, hiking, music, and fishing.

Niki Howard - PICA Director

bio coming soon

Our Vision

Some say that church is LIKE a family. We say that church IS a family. A good family is a safe place, a place where you belong and where you can be yourself. No posing, no pretending.
In this family you will be loved, you can learn and grow, you can build great relationships and use your life to make a difference in the lives of others.

At PICC we frame this by saying:
Welcome Home
Family. Life. Purpose

We are HIS Family
We live HIS Life
We embrace HIS purpose

In January 2018 our church adopted the following 10-year vision:

Vision Statement: Over the next 10 years, we will become a healthy, multi-generational Christ-centered family that intentionally matures and reproduces: transforming the South Strand and impacting the world.

Our Values

We all have values, and it is these values that drive the decisions we make and the way we go about doing life. At PICC we obviously value many things such as: the Bible, Worship, Missions, etc. The four core values we have help drive the way we do ministry as a church.

Purposeful in Excellence
We define excellence as doing the very best with what we have. We will never live with mediocrity. God gave His very best to us...we will strive to give Him our best as well. We are not perfect but we will give Him excellence. If we cannot do something with excellence we will not do it.

Intentional in Growth
Most every illustration Jesus ever gave concerning the kingdom was about something that was growing. At PICC we will strive for growth in our relationship with God, in the number of people we are reaching for Christ and we will grow in the impact we have in changing our community.

Connected, Authentic Relationships
Everything Jesus did He did in relationship with God and others. Building healthy relationships that build life changing community with others is at the core of our existence as a church.

Culturally Relevant
In order to change a culture one must understand it and speak to its needs. Our purpose is NOT to become like the culture but to redeem the culture and the people in it. While the message is never compromised it may need to be presented in ways that others can grasp.

Statement of Faith

The Bible
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, composed of 66 books in the Old Testament and New Testament. We believe the entire Bible originated with God, who used men as instruments to convey His message to the world. The Bible simultaneously speaks with the authority of God and reflects the backgrounds, styles and vocabularies of the human authors - that is, men writing through divine inspiration of God. We hold the Bible is infallible and without error in the original writings. They are the unique, full and final authority on all matters of faith and practice, and there are no other writings similarly inspired by God.

God
We believe there is one true, holy God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - each equally possessing all the attributes of deity and the characteristics of personality. In the beginning God created the world and everything in it from nothing, manifesting the glory of His power, wisdom and goodness. By His power He continues to sustain creation. By His will He is operating through present, past and future to fulfill His redemptive purposes.

Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the eternal second person of the Trinity, who is united forever with a true human nature by a miraculous conception and virgin birth. He lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father and gave His life for the sins of the world by dying on the cross as their substitute. This act satisfied divine justice and accomplished salvation for everyone who trusts in Him alone. He arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. He ascended into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own. He shall come again to earth, personally and visibly to consummate history and eternal plan of God.

Baptism
We believe the Bible mandates baptism as a critical step for every person who has trusted in Christ for salvation. Baptism does not make a person a believer; it shows that the person already believes. It illustrates a believer's new life through Christ's death and that sins have been forgiven through His resurrection. Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and follows the example set by Christ.

The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, was sent into the world by the Father and the Son to apply to mankind the saving work of Jesus Christ. He enlightens the minds of sinners, awakens recognition of their need for a Savior, and regenerates them. At the point of salvation, he permanently indwells every believer to become the source of assurance, strength, and wisdom and uniquely endows each believer with gifts for building up the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit helps believers in understanding and applying the Bible. His power and control are appropriated by faith, making it possible for the believer to lead a life of Christ-like character and to bear fruit to the glory of God.

Salvation
The central purpose of God's revelation in Scripture is to call all people into fellowship with Him. Originally created to have fellowship with God, man defied God, choosing to go his independent way, and thus was alienated from God. The fall took place at the beginning of human history and all individuals since have suffered the consequences and are in need of the saving grace of God. The salvation of mankind is wholly a work of God's free grace, not the result, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness, and must be appropriated by faith in Christ and repentance from sin. When God has begun a saving work in the heart of any person, he gives assurance in His Word that He will continue performing it until the day of its full commission.

Communion
We believe communion or the Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby believers, through the taking of bread and fruit of the vine, memorialize the death and resurrection of the Redeemer and anticipate His Second Coming.

Human Destiny
Death seals the eternal destiny of each person. For all mankind, there will be resurrection of the body into the spiritual world and a judgment that will determine the fate of each individual. Unbelievers will be separated from God into condemnation. God's judgment will reveal His justice in consigning them to perpetuate, in eternal retribution, in their own rejection of God. Believers will be received into eternal communion with God and will be rewarded for works done in this life.

The Church
The result of union with Jesus Christ is that believers become members of His body, the Church. There is one true Church universal, comprised of all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The Scripture commands believers to gather together to devote themselves to worship, prayer, the teaching of the Word, the observance of baptism and communion, fellowship, service to the body through development and use of talents and gifts, and outreach to the world.

Faith and Practice
Scripture is the final authority in all matters of a faith and practice. This church recognizes that it cannot bind the conscience of individual members in areas where Scripture is silent. Rather, each believer is to be led in those areas by the Lord, to whom he or she alone is ultimately responsible.

We believe the Statement of Faith to be an accurate summary of what Scripture teaches. All members shall refrain from advocating doctrines that are not included in the Statement of Faith in such a way as to cause dissension.

Staff and Vision