Hi everyone! My name is Reed James and I serve as the lead pastor at Center Church. I grew up in small town Oklahoma and then made my way to Stillwater to go to OSU. (Go Pokes!) After a few years away for ministry training at seminary, my wife, Emily, and I made our way back to Stillwater in 2010. Since then, I have served the congregation, first as a college pastor and now as the lead pastor. Emily and I now have two young girls (they are quite the delight!). 

I have a dream that Center Church will be a people who love God by bringing Him to the center of our lives and love our neighbors well in the center of Stillwater.

Hello. My name is Reagan Mitchell, and I serve as the Small Group Coordinator at Center Church. As a recent college grad, a self-proclaimed bible fanatic and a lover of people and fellowship, I feel like I couldn’t have designed a ministry that more accurately plays to my God-given passions than this one. 

Center Church has been my church-home for years, and is, in so many ways, where my love for God began to inform my plans for my life. In short, I am uber passionate about biblical engagement, and transformation as a result, family commitment and radically-relational discipleship. All of what I do, or what I hope to do, at Center Church as the Small Group Coordinator can be summed up in those three things. 

In college, I was involved with a ministry that started me on a path that has helped to convince me of the importance of small groups in the larger church culture. Small groups create families, and families create legacies and spiritual lineages. I hope that our church is full of those long after my time in Stillwater is up. If you want to know more about me, this ministry or anything else, I’d love to sit down over a cup of something good, preferably coffee, and tell you anything you want to know. I want to know you, so don’t hesitate to reach out. In case you can’t find me at church, I’m the girl with the crazy curly hair and the bellowing laugh-- come up and say hi!

Hello. My name is Sandra Kelly and I'm the worship leader and community care coordinator at Center Church. I graduated with my degree in Music Education from Oklahoma State University and spent ten years teaching in public schools, churches and a private school at a children's home. I taught elementary education, intermediate mathematics, physical science, biology and music.

I’ve been a member of Center Church since 2014, drawn by the tremendous passion of the church to care for families and our passion for worship. I couldn't have found a better fit. All praise and glory goes to God as I worship. His example of compassion and sacrifice compels me to show His unique love to those in need around us.