Staff
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Wesley Noss, Pastor
wnoss@newhopeky.org

Bro. Noss has been in ministry since 1986.  He began his ministry in Dallas Texas as the College Pastor at Park Cities Baptist Church.  In 1994 he became the Pastor of Lebanon Baptist Church, Lebanon, KY then in 2002 moved to Versailles, KY to take the Pastorate of New Hope Baptist.

Bro. Noss is currently working on his Doctorate of Ministry in Chruch Growth and Evangelism at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

Wesley attended the University of Kentucky and received his Bachelor of Science in accounting in 1979.  He is a graduate of Paducah Tilghman High School.

He was born December 19, 1955 in Paducah, Kentucky.  Wesley and his wife Joan have two sons Michael, age 6, and Matthew, age 3.

His hobbies are reading, swimming, outdoors, sports and spending time with his family.

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 Chris Harper, Youth Pastor
charper@newhopeky.org

Chris was raised in a Pastor's home in Central West Virginia. He graduated in 1991 from Glenville State College with a B.S. in Broadcast Communications. Chris worked for 6 years in radio as an on air announcer. He moved to Lexington, KY in 1992. He worked for 6 years for the Wallace's College Book Company and Wallace's Bookstore's inc. In 1998 he began to serve on the support staff of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. In 2001 Chris surrendered to full time ministry and enrolled at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, KY where he is working on a Master's in Youth Ministry.

 

Chris and his wife Christina have three children, Mary, Emily and Jonathan. Chris sees his calling not only to minister to students, but also to the whole church body.
 
Chris hobbies are, sports, reading, fishing, camping, and collecting LP's from the 60's, 70's and 80's
 

 

His favorite music groups are:
Switchfoot, Todd Agnew, Steve Camp

Favorite foods:
Italian, Mexican

 

Favorite Authors:
James MacDonald, John Piper, John MacArthur, C.S. Lewis

 

 Patti Butler, Ministry Assistant
pbutler@newhopeky.org

 Patti Butler joined our ministry team in August 2005 after "retiring" from corporate life at Lexmark International to pursue a "higher calling".   While at Lexmark Patti was a Project Manager on the Information Technology Web Development and Marketing team.  Patti recieved her degree in Business Management in 1987 and has worked in various fields from Teaching, Accounting/Bookkeeping to Web Development. 

Patti is married to Brett Butler, they have four children, Madison, Jake, Katie & Colleen

Patti enjoys cooking for her family & friends, entertaining, music, computers and theater.

 


New Hope Baptist Church; P.O. Box 825; 3825 Tyrone Pike; Versailles, KY  40383
Phone  (859) 873-1707   Fax (641) 587-6166