Church Staff

Rev. Steve Little, Senior Pastor

 

 Steve was born in Smithfield, NC but spent most of his young life in Kentucky. He attended Ashland Community College and Asbury College. He joined the US Air Force in 1971 and was stationed at Pope AFB in Fayetteville, where he met his wife, Marie, who was also in the army. He graduated from Methodist College in Fayetteville in 1976 and from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1980 with a Master of Divinity. He served his first full time appointment in the Kentucky Conference. He moved to the NC Conference in June 1984 and served West Rockingham UMC and most recently the Erwin-Parker's Grove UMC. Steve and his wife, Marie, have three children and one grandchild.

Mrs. Jan Kennedy, Director of Educational Ministries

 
Jan Kennedy is a graduate from Methodist College in Fayetteville, NC with a degree in Music Education. She has taught Public School Music at the middle and high school level.  She has also had many private piano students.  Jan has been at Chestnut Street Church as Director of Christian Education/Youth Director for 10 years. She is married to Garry and has three daughters, Beth, Joanna and Rebecca, and five grandchildren.

 

Megan Leicht,
Youth Director
 
Megan  was born in Virginia Beach and attended college in Lynchburg, Virginia at Liberty University.  She graduated from Liberty with a degree in television broadcasting and a minor in women’s ministry. Her greatest weaknesses are chocolate, coffee, and a good chick flick. Megan, along with her husband, Braxton, plan to spend their life serving the Lord through missions. 

Janice Fisher, Administrative Secretary

 
Janice Fisher is a native of Robeson County and attended   Campbell University at Buies Creek, NC.  Before  returning to Lumberton, she worked for the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Durham in Durham, NC  and the Meadow brook Country Club in Chesterfield, Virginia.  She came to Chestnut Street UMC in July 1981 and has worked with six ministers since that time.  Janice is a member of Barkers UMC.  She has three children, Robert, Peter and Andrea and four grandchildren.

 

Ms. Debra Lewis, Financial Processor

 
Debra has been the Financial Processor at Chestnut Street since July, 1992.  She attended the Business School at Stratford Women's College at Atlanta, Georgia.  She works for Megaforce and is married to Ed Lewis. Her hobby is scrapbooking.

 

Harriette Lovin, Adult Choir and Praise Team Director

 

 Harriette is a  Fairmont native. She graduated from what is now the University of NC at Pembroke in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education K-12 with Piano as her major instrument and minors in both Voice and Church Music.  She is married to Mack A. Lovin Jr. and has  a 17-year old stepson, Kyle, who is a senior at Lumberton Sr. High School. She is  currently in her  21st year of teaching and employed by Cumberland County Schools as choral director for South View Middle School in Hope Mills. 

Ms. June Nygaard, Organist

 June is a 1959 graduate of Elon University with a degree in English and history. She was widowed at the age of 29 and returned to her home in Rowland from Portsmouth, Virginia.  She is the mother of two sons, Grant H. Nygaard and Dr, Clint T, Nygaard and the grandmother of six.  She taught for over 30 years in the public schools  of Virginia, Johnston and Robeson Counties in North Carolina and Avolon Academy in South Carolina.  She joined the staff at Chestnut Street United Methodist Church in April, 2006. after serving nine years as organist at Ashpole and Rowland Presbyterian Churches.

 
   

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