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Fayetteville

First UMC adds new youth minister and organist

Fayetteville

First United Methodist Church recently added two new

members to its staff.

D. Scott

Hagan has assumed duties as youth minister and Rick

Massengale is the new organist.

Hagan, a

native of Statesboro, and the grandson of a United

Methodist Minister, is a graduate of Georgia Tech and

will complete his studies toward his MBA from Georgia

Southern University in July. He will begin work in

theology at Emory this fall and will relocate to

Fayetteville. He has worked as a manager of Bobby

Cremins' Georgia Tech basketball team and has coached and

recruited at Tech, Clayton State and Columbus College. He

will tour with the pre-Olympic basketball team in July.

Massengale

is a graduate of Georgia State University with a

Bachelor's degree in music education and a Master's in

organ performance. He has played professionally in

churches for 26 years-9 as an organist and 17 as an

organist/choir director. He lives in Fayetteville with

his wife, Jeannine, and his daughter, Lyndsey.

"We

welcome these fine people of faith to the FUMC

community," said Pastor Sam Matthews. "We look

forward to growing relationships with them and to the

wonderful contributions which they will make toward the

cause of Christ among us."

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