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Home / About / Our People / Staff STAFF Home / About / Our People / Staff / Debbie Laur Director of Early Childhood Ministry Debbie Laur has been the Director of Early Childhood Ministry since 1997. She and her husband, Noel-Paul, have four grown children and seven grandchildren. Debbie earned a Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Institute and a diploma in Christian Education/Music from Moody Bible Institute. She has been an early childhood educator for 30 years. Debbie loves chocolate, the first layer of the food pyramid!! She loves that the Holy Scriptures are upheld as the inerrant Word of God at First Pres. debbiel@firstpres.com (806) 350-5213

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Home / About / Our People / Staff STAFF Home / About / Our People / Staff / Jeff Smoot Technical Director Jeff began serving as the Technical Director at First Presbyterian in 2022. He has been serving in audio/visual and worship ministries with various churches since his early teen years. He graduated from WTAMU with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Business in 2004. Between 2009 and 2015, he worked in full-time ministry performing numerous tasks in the areas of audio, video, and lighting. In 2015, he was blessed with an invitation to serve at Insight for Living, the Chuck Swindoll radio ministry as Recording Engineer and Editor. After living in McKinney, Texas for six years, he and his wife, Melanie, moved back to Amarillo to be near family. He continues editing the radio programs remotely for Insight for Living. After attending First Presbyterian for a short while, he was excited and honored to be asked to join this wonderful staff. His favorite verse is Jeremiah 29:11. jeffs@firstpres.com

Home / About / Our People / Staff STAFF Home / About / Our People / Staff / Marcos Henry Assistant Pastor of Intergenerational Ministry Marcos is from San Diego, California and originally from Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. Marcos has been married to his beautiful wife, Chloe, for the past 3.5 years. Marcos and Chloe love to host, make good food, and go on fun adventures. He previously served at First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs but is now the Assistant Pastor of Intergenerational Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Amarillo. Marcos came to know the Lord at the age of 16, and his life was changed drastically. His encounter with the Lord led him to pursue a BA in Christian Ministries at Azusa Pacific University. After graduating, Marcos worked in various roles including working at a non-profit serving at risk youth, at Pepperdine University as an Assistant Resident Director, and as a Spiritual Pastoral Mentor at Azusa Pacific University. During this time, Marcos also helped develop a youth program with a church plant for four years. Marcos continued his education to receive a Masters in Divinity at Azusa Pacific University. Rumors say Marcos makes the best guacamole in town. marcosh@firstpres.com (806) 373-4242

ABOUT Home / About We'd love to answer any questions you might have about First Pres. Look through these pages to learn more, but if you don't find the answer you're needing, give us a call! First Presbyterian is a body of believers who seek to discover and live the way of Christ in the expansive grace of God. We believe that Jesus Christ alone is Lord, and we are called to share His love with others through both word and deed. As Presbyterians, we affirm the FIVE SOLAS of the Protestant Reformation: Grace Alone, Faith Alone, Christ Alone, Scripture Alone, and Glory to God Alone. We believe we are saved by grace alone (Ephesians 2:8-9), through faith alone (John 3:16), through Christ alone (John 14:6), and Scripture alone is our authority in faith and life (2 Timothy 3:16-17), as we seek to give all glory to God alone (1 Corinthians 10;31). We are members of the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians (ECO). To learn more about what we believe as Presbyterians, please go to our denomination’s web page where you can find our essential tenets and our confessional standards. Hopefully, by scanning through our website and the website of our denomination, you will learn a little more about who we are, what we believe, why we do what we do, and how we seek to live that out. As always, if you can’t find what you’re looking for please call us (806) 373-4242. ABOUT Becoming a Member Contact & News ECO Employment FAQs Mission Statement & Beliefs Our History Our People Our Pipe Organ What We're About First Pres Amarillo App WORSHIP | GROW | CONNECT | SERVE

Home / About / Our People / Staff STAFF Home / About / Our People / Staff / Anita Goodrum Administrative Assistant for Missions and Outreach Anita Goodrum has been an Administrative Assistant at First Pres for 33 plus years. She loves everything about First Pres. Her hobby is undoubtedly her grandchildren! Anita's favorite Bible verse is Philippians 4:13. anitag@firstpres.com (806) 350-5202

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REFORMED TRADITIONAL Home / Worship Services / Reformed Tradtional Reformed Traditional 10:55 am Sunday Mornings Sanctuary WORSHIP SERVICES Reformed Traditional Contemporary Gospel OTHER INTERESTS Studies and Groups Worship Grow Connect Serve What is Reformed worship exactly? Well, in the Protestant Reformation theologians like Martin Luther and John Calvin made it clear that we are saved by GRACE alone, through FAITH in CHRIST alone. SCRIPTURE alone is our authority in faith and life as we seek to give all GLORY to God alone. With this new found emphasis on SCRIPTURE, worship in the Reformed Tradition is focused on the triune God and is guided by SCRIPTURE, saturated with SCRIPTURE, and centered around the reading and preaching of SCRIPTURE. For we believe what the Apostle Paul writes about Scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16-17. “16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” We believe that the Lord uses the faithful reading and preaching of Scripture to transform us and equip us to do the work of God’s Kingdom here on earth. In Traditional Reformed Worship we want to pray the word, sing the word, hear the word, and speak the word. For we believe that it is through the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments that we learn more of who God is, and we discover who God is calling us to be. If you want to encounter God through a service of worship that is saturated in Scripture, then I would encourage you to join us for Traditional Reformed Worship in our beautiful sanctuary at 10:55 a.m. Come join us as we gather around the word of God and are led in singing traditional hymns to God led by our beautiful organ and our sanctuary choir. Our newly renovated organ is actually the largest and most dynamic organ from Fort Worth to Los Angeles and has been profiled in different news articles. People often call it Traditional Worship, but it’s not just “traditional”. It is REFORMED WORSHIP, and that makes all the difference.

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