Meet the Staff
Dr. Rob Nash, Senior Pastor
Robert N. Nash, Jr.* serves as the Arnall-MannThomasson Professor of Missions and World Religions. He received his Ph.D. degree in Church History (1989) and his M.Div. degree (1985) from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition, he completed both his M.A. (History) and B.A. degrees at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Dr. Nash served as Global Missions Coordinator at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (2006-2012) and as a professor in the religion departments at both Shorter College in Rome, Georgia (1994-2006) and at Judson College in Marion, Alabama (1992-1994). He also served as Dean of the School of Religion and International Studies at Shorter College for several years.
Dr. Nash is married to Guyeth Nash, a psychotherapist, and they have two grown children, Douglas and Lindsay. He is an avid viewer of food and travel programs on television and enjoys grilling and eating his way through every Asian restaurant in Atlanta. He runs about 12-15 miles a week to keep off the pounds generated by his food interests. The Nashes have a dog named Nemo and two cats, Mama Kitty and Agamemnon.
* biography from Mercer University website accessed March 30, 2018 (https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-staff/robert-nash.cfm).
Justin Bishop, Associate Pastor
Justin serves as worship pastor on Sundays, leading the choir and planning the service, and through the week, he serves as the church administrator. He grew up just down the road in Canton where his parents still live and fish…lots of “big” stories to tell there! As a graduate of Cherokee High School, his English teacher gave him a keyboard; a friend of the family gave him a guitar, and the rest was musical history! He now plays 17 instruments…if it has strings, he can play it. Justin attended Mercer University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and went on to earn a Master of Divinity at the McAfee School of Theology where he completed a thesis on William Faulkner and Genesis. Because Pastor Rob still works full-time as a professor at Mercer University, Justin provides a full-time pastoral presence at the church during the week.
He comes to us from Johns Creek Baptist Church where he led youth worship for 5 years and worked as a youth ministry intern 3 years prior. He formerly taught High School English at King’s Ridge Christian School. During his summer breaks, he has both led and chaperoned youth trips to Student Life and PASSPORT, and he even led worship for PASSPORT for 2 summers.
Susan Miller, Church Administrator
Susan is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, but has been in Georgia for seventeen years. Both of her daughters were born and raised in Jasper, so she now calls Georgia home. She has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Louisiana and a Masters in Interrelated Special Education from the University of North Georgia. Her full-time job is with Pickens High School teaching in Special Education. In her spare time Susan enjoy reading, gardening and spending as much time as possible with her two daughters. The oldest, Ellie, is a graduate of the University of North Georgia and currently lives and works in Atlanta. Her youngest, Meredith, is working on her Nursing degree at Georgia College in Milledgeville.