Secretarial Staff

C.R.Bubba Stahl, D.Min, Pastor

   Bubba Shahl was born in San Antonio, Texas on May 16, 1953. He accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior when he was six years old and was baptized on March 30, 1960, at Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio. Bubba graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Houston in 1971 and went to Texas A&I University in Kingsville, where he met and fell in love with Beth Grim of Harlingen. They were married on July 1, 1972. "All I ever wanted to be was a cowboy."
   Bubba was able to achieve that childhood dream by living and working on several ranches during the first ten years of their marriage. Ben, their first son, was born February 1977, and Dan, their second son, was born November 3, 1978. On August 7, 1982, everything changed for the Stahl family. "We were living down on the Texas/Mexico border in a little place called El Endio, which is in between Eagle Pass and Laredo, when God called me into the ministry." Dr. Buckner Fanning, Bubba's pastor at Trinity, once said, "We know that it had to have been God who called Bubba, because no one else knew who he was."
   The Stahl family moved to Abilene, where Bubba completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Hardin-Simmons University. He then went on to earn master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in fort Worth. Bubba was pastor at four churches during his years in school: Calvary, Rotan; New Prospect, Glen Rose; First, Breckenridge; and Parkway, College Station. The Stahl family moved to Boerne in 1992 when Bubba accepted a call to First Baptist, Boerne. For the last three and one-half years, he served First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi.
    Bubba's passion for missions was mirrored in his D. Min. project in Uganda, East Africa, among pastors and church leaders in that country. His training manual for pastors has been translated into three African dialects and has been used to train over 4,000 pastors and church leaders. Hundreds of new churches have been planted in Uganda as a result of this training.
   Bubba's personal mission statement is to experience God each day and to help others become like Jesus by serving them.

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Steve Leftwich, Worship & Prayer

Greg Lewis,  Education & Children

Greg Lewis has served as the Associate Pastor of Education and Children at FBC Kingsland since May 2001. Greg is married to Jill and they have two children, Matthew and Madison. They live in Granite Shoals. Greg grew up in Burleson, Texas. He attended Howard Payne University in Brownwood and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Jill also attended Howard Payne University, where she received a degree in Elementary Education. She is a teacher at the Marble Falls First Baptist Church Christian School.

Greg’s personal mission statement is:  To allow Jesus to express Himself through me as I lead others to allow Jesus to express Himself through them. His favorite Scripture verses are Galatians 2:20 and Proverbs 3:5-6.

 Greg believes that Christian education begins in the home. Attitudes, values, character and theology are all established in the home. He believes that the church should be a partner to equip and encourage parents to train their children to be godly.

He is responsible for overseeing the small group ministry, discipleship courses, children’s ministries and enlisting and training volunteer leaders, as well as handling some administration. His objective is to develop disciples that make disciples. Greg believes that his role as a minister is to be a servant and an equipper. He desires to help followers of Jesus discover where God is at work and then join Him there and allow God to work through them.

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Music & Senior Adults

Phillip Malina, Youth & Recreation

Phillip began his full-time ministry in 1999 after being employed seven years as a computer Network Systems Administrator for Austin Travis County MHMR. He came to us after serving three years at FBC Wharton as Minister of Youth/Education & Evangelism. He has a B.A. in Business Management from Concordia college where he played on a basketball scholarship. He Played some Semi-Pro Basketball and attended Sports Ambassador Mission Trips (India, Singapore, and Bangladesh). He has completed about half the hours necessary to complete a Masters Degree in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary in Houston. He and his wife, Julie, have a daughter, Jana, and a son, Jesse.

Phillip has a concern for reaching out to the community and wants to help people fall in love with Christ, not a denomination.  His spiritual gifts are Evangelism and Teaching.

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Shelley Kizer, Children's Ministry Director

Shelley joined our staff as Children’s Ministry Director in April, 2007.  She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in December 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.  Shelley and her husband, Jamie, were married December 31, 1994 and moved to Kingsland in December, 2004 with their two daughters, Lizzie and Ashley.   Her desire to be involved in Children’s Ministry started when she helped with Preschool Choir when Lizzie was 4 and has continued working in all areas of children’s ministry over the last 5 years.  

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Shirley Watts, Office Manager

When you call the church on the telephone, this is the one you normally get to answer.  Her smile comes shining through her voice.   She has been an employee of the church longer than any other of the present paid workers.  If you want to know anything about the church activities or its members, she will probably know.

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Ann Moore, Financial Secretary

Ann has over 30 years of accounting experience.  She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education.

She and her husband, Ron, were married in 1971 and have a grown son, Russell, who is married and has children.

They moved to Kingsland in 1999 where they own an automotive repair shop.

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Jim Lott - Maintenance Custodian

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Ruth Eskew - Pianist

Ruth has studied and played piano almost since she was born.  She started taking piano lessons at age 4 and continued to study music until entering college where she received a BA degree from SNU at Oklahoma City and a MA degree from Lesley College at Cambridge, Mass (Colorado Springs Campus).

She grew up in church, front row piano side, where she admired and learned from the church pianists.  She accompanied church choirs at Elkhart, KS; Amarillo, TX; Hutchinson, KS; Liberal, KS; and Walsh, CO before coming to First Baptist Church - Kingsland.  She has also accompanied her husband, Jerry, for more than 40 years as a soloist and music director.

She is known for adding a lot of piano notes not written in the original music.

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Mary Beal - Organist

Mary Lynne Beal studied piano for several years, but she taught herself to play the organ.  She spent many afternoons during high school practicing on the church organ next door to the parsonage (her dad was pastor).

She went to East Texas Baptist University for two years on a music scholarship, but she graduated from Texas A & I in Kingsville with a BA in elementary education.  She taught school for 24 years and has been substituting for 10 years.

She has been an accompanist on piano and organ for about 50 years and served in Edna, Bishop, Mathis, and Archer City (all in Texas) before coming to Kingsland.  She played for several years while her husband was music director.

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