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Ministry Team
Bishop Steve Edmondson
Senior Pastor
Bishop Steve G. Edmondson became the Pastor of the Middlesex Church of God Worship Center in February 2003. Prior to this pastorate, Pastor Edmondson was a full-time evangelist for 18 years during which time he pioneered and pastored Calvary Temple Pentecostal Holiness Church for one year. Pastor Edmondson is a native of North Carolina and attended Liberty University, Lynchburg VA, as well as the Berean Bible College in Springfield, MO. Pastor Edmondson is blessed by his wife, Frances, and two sons, Steve and Israel. Pastor Edmondson has a heart for our church and a vision for excellence in ministry.
Mike and Vickie Carswell
Ministers of Music
Mike & Vickie have worked together in music ministry for nearly 40 years. Mike grew up playing piano for his dad's Southern Gospel quartet, THE SPOKESMEN. Vickie grew up singing in churches with her parents and 5 sisters as THE WISE FAMILY. Mike & Vickie met when The Spokesmen and The Wise Family were on the same program at a gospel sing in Smithfield, NC. Mike went to Vickie's 15th birthday party and the rest is history!
Married in 1974, Mike & Vickie moved to Nashville, TN in 1976 where they worked with friends, Bobby & Bernice Howard, in a traveling music ministry. They also settled into Christ Church in Nashville for 13 years where they were on the praise and worship team, members of the choir and band, and program coordinators for Sunday services. Their 2 sons were born there, and they returned to NC in 1990 to be closer to aging parents. The wealth of spiritual and practical training they received at Christ Church under Pastor L.H. Hardwick, current Sr. Pastor Dan Scott and Choir Directors Landy & Joy Gardner, has been put to work in NC as they have worked with churches in the area to create choirs, enhance music programs and provide praise and worship training.
Mike and Vickie originally worked with Middlesex Church of God from 1994-1999 and have returned now in 2008. The choir looks forward to continued growth as excitement builds toward the choir's first concert in many years, currently scheduled for September 28, 2008.
Reverends Sam and Erin Burleson
Children's Pastors and Interim Youth Pastors
Sam and Erin submitted their lives to the call of God as teenagers. Since then, they have pursued that call with passion and vigor wherever it has led them. Starting their marriage together in Asheville, NC in May of 2001, they quickly moved to Cleveland, TN in order for each to pursue a Bachelor's degree from Lee University. Three years later, they moved to Freehold, NJ where Erin became the full-time youth pastor, and Sam ministered as a Pastoral Assistant at the Abundant Life Church of God in Freehold, NJ. Presently, Erin is completing a M.Div. at Regent University, and Sam, while already attaining a M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary, is furthering his ministerial training and graduate study at Duke University. Sam and Erin both carry a passion and love for God and His children and are quick to express that love in word and in deed.
Vance and Vicki Lamm
Director of the Son Shining Seniors Ministry
Vicki Lamm has been a member of the Middlesex Church of God since 1986. Vicki worked for the public school system for sixteen years, served as Ladies Ministries President and sang in the Middlesex Sanctuary Choir. Finally in 1999 Vicki found her heart's desire when she was asked to serve as the Director of the Son Shining Seniors. The mother of five children and grandmother to eight grandchildren she, along with her husband Vance Lamm, have devoted themselves to the seniors of our church and community. Her greatest desire is to be a servant in the Kingdom of God. Knowing that God has blessed her so much, the least that she can do is give her best in the Son Shining Seniors Ministry.
Reverend Ismael Torres
Hispanic Ministries Pastor
Theresa Baines
Church Secretary
Dennis Bunn
Church Treasurer
Our Board of Elders
- Joey Perry
- Robert Kyles
- Brett Blackmon
- Jeff Stone
- Joe Whittington
- Robbie Stone
- Ricky McKeel
- Tony Stone
- David Johnson
