RTP's Board of Directors

Joyce Stark - President

Jeff Brown - Vice President and Team Leader: Prayer

Jessica Atwood - Assistant to the President

Ronda Carver - Treasurer

Beth Gregory - Secretary

Pastors Roger and Beverly Putnam - Spiritual Advisors

Randy Schutte - Team Leader: First Aid

Deborah Brown - Team Leader: Welcoming

Keren McComas - Team Leader: Maintainance

Doug Gregory and Claude Harper - Stage Managers

Alex Washington - Team Leader: Security/Parking

Cathy Gregory - Team Leader: Merchant and Food Vendors

Josh Baldwin - Team Leader: Tents Display

Debbie Hatton - Team Leader: Hospitality

Dawn Pirtle - Team Leader: Artist Merchandise

   Joyce Stark, ordained minister, wife Mother, Grandmother and a former native of Florida, has always had a heart for ministering to the youth and families. As a teenager, in Jacksonville, FL, she grew up actively involved in her own youth group and church where she ministered and served in ministry.

   Moving to TN some 25 years ago, Joyce served at Byrams Chapel as youth pastor for more than 13 years. During here service at Byrams, Joyce also worked as a volunteer Christian youth minister for middle TN youth correction facilities. Her most active involvement in youth corrections was Overton Groves [a pilot program for serious youth offenders] which was under the directorship of former Director Endene Gerdes. Joyce was also very actively involved with Woodland Hills and Taft Youth Prison in Pikeville, TN, as well as other youth correction facilities throughout middle TN. She was very privileged to have worked with other youth chaplains in the correction programs.

   But it was during her service as youth pastor, at Byram's Chapel, that the Lord placed it on her heart that eventually He would use her to birth a Christian Festival for the tri-county area. Thus Raise The Praise production, a youth and family gathering, that had been stored and simmering in the heart and mind of Joyce Stark for 9 years, came into fruition in 2006.

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