Getting To Know Your KNCSB Staff: John Lucas and Marie Clark
By Eva Wilson
November 2006
John Lucas
As an associate director of the KNCSB Missions Team, John Lucas focuses on meeting the needs of various people groups. He has served with KNCSB since 1999.
“I help to meet not only spiritual needs but immediate physical and psychological needs as well,” he says.
Living in “Tornado Alley” also affords Lucas some meaningful ways to minister to hurting people. His areas of responsibility include:
- Church-and-community ministries consultant for the town-and-country areas of Nebraska and Kansas. In this position, Lucas promotes evangelistic caring ministries to help churches reach out to their communities and beyond.
- Chaplaincy representative (encouraging chaplaincy and supporting chaplains).
- Director of men’s ministries, which includes young men and boys.
- Coordinator of disaster-relief ministry (promoting and coordinating KS-NE disaster ministry and also nationally when needed)
- On Mission Celebration coordinator (promoting mission awareness and church and missionary appreciation for one another).
Lucas is a native of Connecticut and his wife, Patty, is from Ohio. They were married in 1971 and make their home in Junction City, Kan. Their two children serve as teachers: Joshua is married and works in Keller, Texas, and Deborah teaches children with autism in Manhattan, Kan.
John and Patty Lucas are North American Mission Board missionaries. “We work as a team in ministry, and she is proactively involved in many of my ministry areas,” Lucas says.
“I am also a NAMB-endorsed chaplain and serve as a disaster and Civil Air Patrol chaplain.”
To contact Lucas, call (785) 228-6800, ext. 817, or send e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Marie Clark
Marie Clark is team leader for the KNCSB Bible Study & Discipling Team. In this role, she works primarily with Sunday School and Vacation Bible School.
“Our goal is to serve the churches,” she says. Kansas-Nebraska Southern Baptist churches have total freedom to choose their Bible study materials and how they want to organize their programs.
Clark has served for 24 1/2 years as director of church services for Kansas City, Kan., Baptist Association. She has served as a KNCSB consultant for 10 years. Before joining the KCKBA staff, she served in volunteer positions for the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention as well as KNCSB. Clark grew up in the home of a minister of education.
Her responsibilities include coordinating the annual KNCSB Vacation Bible School Jumpstart Clinic in Salina, Kan. This event provides training in the LifeWay Christian Resources VBS resources.
She also provides consultation for churches in the areas of Bible teaching and VBS.
“I’m always thrilled to be able to do something like that,” she says.
Many questions can be answered over the telephone or by e-mail. Clark encourages churches and individuals to call her at (800) 984-9154 or send e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
She and her husband, Bob, have been married for more than 44 years. Bob Clark has been minister of education and administration at Nall Avenue Baptist Church, Prairie Village, Kan., for 26 years.
They have two sons. Bob Clark Jr. lives in Shawnee, Kan., with his wife, Lisa, and their three daughters. Their son, Tom, and his wife, Kim, have two sons and live in Houston.
Clark is “an active volunteer in my own church (Nall Avenue) because I believe in the local church. Sunday School is a great passion in my life. Currently I am department director for the Young Adult Sunday School Department.”
Nall Avenue implemented the FAITH Sunday School Evangelism Strategy about seven years ago, soon after it was introduced by LifeWay Christian Resources.
“I was privileged to be a part of the original group from Nall Avenue that was trained and have been a team leader for all but one semester since then,” Clark said.
“In the last few years God has also given me a growing burden for our children and our responsibility to nurture them and introduce them to Christ. As a volunteer, I am able to make some important contributions to our kids as the coordinator for children’s discipleship on Sunday evenings and as the chairman of the Children’s Committee.”
Working with Clark on the KNCSB Bible Study and Discipling Team are:
- Debbie Carter, preschool and children, along with general expertise in Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. She is associate director of missions in Kaw Valley Baptist Association.
- Georges Boujakly, discipleship. He is the KNCSB director of language missions.
- Ken James, discipleship. He is the KNCSB evangelism director.
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