Ministers

James Willcutt - Minister

Meet Our Ministers...

Born in Mobile, Alabama. His grandfather, W. R. Willcutt, was a gospel preacher. His parents, Tom and Blanche Willcutt, faithful Christians. He is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman College, Alabama Christian School of Religion, and Abilene Christian University. He has served churches in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama. Mission work in Canada, Jamaica, Ceylon and India. He, along with J. C. Bailey, founded the Kakinada School of Preaching, Kakinada, India. He has written tracts and articles for brotherhood publications, and spoken on several lectureships, including Freed-Hardeman, Abilene, Faulkner and Fort Worth. He has taught at the Brown Trail School of Preaching, Kakinada School of Preaching, Madras Bible College, Faulkner University and Gus Nichols School of Biblical Studies.

Married to Brenda, whom he met at Freed-Hardeman. They have two children, Kellock and Tom, and two grandchildren, Isaiah and Jalyn. Brenda taught ladies classes at Brown Trail, Madras Bible College and Kakinada School in India and has always been deeply involved in local work and teaching children.

The Willcutts have worked with the Sandusky congregation over 14 years. During most of this time, he has also worked as an instructor for Faulkner University and for the past two years as a teacher at the Gus Nichols School of Biblical Studies

Phillip Brown - Associate Minister

Phillip Brown is the son of Hayward Carl Brown and Jean Elmira Dean Brown. He is the tenth of their twelve children and was born in Detroit, Michigan on the third of July in 1964. With his father being a member of the church of Christ and a preacher of the gospel Phillip was raised in the church and began preaching at the age of seventeen.

Phillip completed his high school education at Elba High School in Elba, Alabama in 1982 and went on to complete his BA Degree in ministry and biblical studies at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama in 1986. During his college years Phillip worked as ministerial team leader to supply preachers for the Hooks Street church of Christ in Fort Deposit, Alabama. Phillip has preached in various places throughout Alabama and has served as the assistant minister at the church of Christ at Kinston in Kinston, Alabama, the minister for the Church of Christ at Montgomery/Woodley Rd in Montgomery, Alabama, and an associate minister for the Bush Hills church of Christ in Birmingham, Alabama.

Phillip currently serves as an associate minister for the Sandusky church of Christ in Birmingham, Alabama. He works as a teacher for the Jefferson County School System and is currently in the process of completing a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration. He has a genuine love for the Lord and prays that he will always be able to let God use him to further the cause and growth of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.