Two Year
Ministry Plan

We have staff members in both campus staff and support staff roles all over the Upstate! We want you to get to know some of them as you stay updated with what’s happening at Grace Church.

What brought you to Grace Church?

Way back in 2012, Courtney and I were engaged and we were trying to figure out what was next. We had a friend who had started attending Grace when it met at The Handlebar and had mentioned great things about Grace. I was in a position where I needed a job to support Courtney through grad school. So I sent a cold email to Matt Kelley to ask him some questions, and here we are!

What do you enjoy most about your job?

I think of two things mainly. The first is people, to be able to work with people day in and day out is a joy for me. As a natural extrovert, I am thankful and honored by the work that God allows me to do in people’s lives. The second is the diversity of my role. I am someone who can get bored easily, and I love being able to work in so many different areas.

What is your favorite thing about your campus?

I love the Powdersville community. They have welcomed us with open arms. They care for each other in a fierce way. They love their community and those in it. Courtney and I are humbled and grateful to be a part of what God is doing in this community.

What are you most excited about right now?

Wednesday nights have been a unique blessing for our campus. We have re:gen, re|engage, Divorce Support, and Money Matters running all at once. It has created a great sense of energy and community engagement. The other piece is children’s ministry. We are running a version of our Up & Out curriculum on Wednesday nights to help impact kids in the community and as part of the Dream Center Opportunity Village.

What is one interesting thing about you?

I majored in global politics and minored in Mandarin in college. I have lost most of the language proficiency, but it's still a fun fact!

We have staff members in both campus staff and support staff roles all over the Upstate! We want you to get to know some of them as you stay updated with what’s happening at Grace Church.

What brought you to Grace Church?

I was looking at a few different churches to see if my family and I would be a good fit. I came across Grace church and decided to apply for a pastoral position. That was the first step in the Raulersons’ connection with Grace Church.

What do you enjoy most about your job?

I really enjoy working with the Harrison Bridge staff to equip our leaders to do the work of the ministry. I know that sounds cliche, but I love the process of working through our team to make sure our people feel cared for and equipped. I love the fact that the ministry at each campus doesn’t rest on one person’s shoulders. So, I enjoy the team aspect of my job the most.

What is your favorite thing about your campus?

The people. I mean, the distance to QT is nice too! Seriously, I love being a part of a church family where so many people are sacrificing their time, energy, and resources to help people experience life change. So many couples and families are taking the call to discipleship seriously. It’s my favorite part of being a part of the Harrison Bridge campus.

What are you most excited about right now?

I’m really excited about our Grace Church Kids and Students ministries. We have a lot of young families at Harrison Bridge. Knowing that adolescence is such an important time in life, I’m excited about the way our GCK and Students teams are strategically ministering to our kids, students, and parents.

What is one interesting thing about you?

I like to draw. I love drawing pictures for people that I know will be meaningful to them.

We have staff members in both campus staff and support staff roles all over the Upstate! We want you to get to know some of them as you stay updated with what’s happening at Grace Church.

What brought you to Grace Church?

Scofield Foster and I were friends in college together at the University of South Carolina. He and I stayed in touch through the years, and he told me about a job leading 7th and 8th graders for 24Seven in 2016.

What do you enjoy most about your job?

Two things: One—seeing people make significant steps towards following Jesus in a more real and authentic way is very encouraging and motivating. Two—helping our church think strategically about how to make mature disciples more effectively is fun work for me.

What is your favorite thing about your campus?

I love how ready members of the Spartanburg campus are to step up and bear one another’s burdens in tangible ways whether that is through providing a meal, supporting someone who has experienced difficult loss, cutting someone’s grass, giving financially in secret, and praying diligently for our body’s needs. They are ready because that is what they have committed their lives to.

What are you most excited about right now?

Opportunities for ministry in hurting places in our community that our members are eager to jump into. Bringing Families Count to our campus in the fall to partner with birth parents who need support and housing ministry needs through Front Porch and Homes of Hope are chances for us to really get in the weeds with people and live out what we believe.

What is one interesting thing about you?

I have some good dance moves that I’ll break out in celebration of my oldest daughter Lily going to the bathroom in the toilet. That is the only way they happen though!

We have staff members in both campus staff and support staff roles all over the Upstate! We want you to get to know some of them as you stay updated with what’s happening at Grace Church.

What brought you to Grace Church?

My wife Lauren was worshiping and serving at Grace when we got engaged. I joined her and became a member in 2012. We spent a year at the Powdersville campus before I did our residency program at our Harrison Bridge campus. And I’ve stayed around since.

What do you enjoy most about your job?

My favorite part of my job is seeing members of our church plug into serving and leading roles, being equipped for ministry, and using their gifts and faith to impact others around them.

What is your favorite thing about your campus?

I love the energy of our Downtown campus. We have such a committed group of members that are eager to own the cause of the church, serve, and help make disciples of those God is bringing to us.

What are you most excited about right now?

I’m most excited about the upcoming outreach opportunities our campus will have through the Grace Housing efforts, and other ministry partners that are so close to Downtown. I know it’ll change our members' lives as we sacrifice to create pathways into the Kingdom of God.

What is one interesting thing about you?

My favorite hobby currently (when we are not renovating our house) is men's league soccer. It’s a competitive outlet for me that reenergizes me for family and work life. It’s also producing a lot of injuries for me currently. It seems I need to stretch more.

We have staff members in both campus staff and support staff roles all over the Upstate! We want you to get to know some of them as you stay updated with what’s happening at Grace Church.

What is your job title?

I am part of our campus support team for students as the projects coordinator. I work on specialized students projects for all of our campuses.

What brought you to Grace Church?

We moved to Greenville in 2014 and had wonderful new neighbors (Hi Chavez fam!) invite us to church. We have been attending ever since!

What do you enjoy most about your job?

I love having the opportunity to work with so many of our students staff across all campuses. I really love having a front row seat to watching our student staff's strengths and gifts come together on projects/teachings/retreats etc. It’s an amazing picture of how all of our campuses come together as one church to further our mission of life change for our students while connecting them to the local church.

What campus do you attend, and what is your favorite thing about it?

My family and I attend the Harrison Bridge campus. I am so grateful for the people and different relationships my family and I have built there over the years. Oh, and obviously the QT right outside the doors is nice, too!

What are you most excited about right now?

I am really excited about our student gender curriculum we have been creating over the past year, Distinct. We have studies coming out this summer for our Fusion boys and girls. Along with that, some of our female staff have been working on developing curriculum for our middle and high school girls that will be coming together this summer as well. We ask for continued prayer in this area for our students as we continue to discern what is most important for our female students to hear at each age group around God’s design for females. We will begin working on our middle and high school guys curriculum in April!

What is one interesting thing about you?

My husband, Doug, and I have four boys! If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would have been a Mom to four loud, loving, crazy, fun, busy boys, I would have laughed at you. It all works well for my overly competitive nature.

What is your job title? Care and Recovery Coordinator (for kids and teens)

How did you get to Grace? My family and I moved to Greenville in 2016 to be near family. My husband, Asa, visited Grace first. What stood out to him was the teaching, humility of the church, and the Mosaic ministry. Our son has disabilities, and we had been churching separately for three years so one of us could stay home with him. After attending the first time with my husband, it was clear Grace was where we were supposed to be and now our whole family attends church together, grows together, and serves together. It is a wonderful blessing.

What do you enjoy most about your job? My favorite part of my job is seeing the ways in which God uses leaders, stretches them and seeing the ways in which they grow closer to Christ because they are serving.

What campus do you attend and what is your favorite thing about it? We attend the Pelham campus. My favorite things about this campus is the community we have built and serving in Mosaic Grouplife.

What are you most excited about right now? The way the Lord is working in the hearts of leaders, kids and students through the care and recovery ministry.

What is one interesting thing about you? I have moved to 10 different cities. Eight of those were in different states.