Staff

 

Mike Shackelford,  Senior Pastor  (mshackelford@stjohns-spartanburg.org)

 

Carey Gillespie, Parish Secretary  (cgillespie@stjohns-spartanburg.org)

Frankie Wolfe Deal, Traditional Music Director & Organist (fdeal@stjohns-spartanburg.org)

 

Frankie Wolfe Deal has a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ and a Minor in Piano from UNCG. Before coming to St. John's, she served as organist for St. James UMC, Nativity Lutheran and Holy Communion Lutheran churches in Spartanburg and for a congregation in WV. Her daughter, Saundra, lives in Berkeley, California and son Mark, along with his three children, lives in Spartanburg.

 

Chip Hicks, Sexton

 

Martin Aigner, Chancel Choir Director

 Martin received his musical training in Austria, at Salzburg (Music Pedagogy), Vienna (Music Recording Technology), and through a graduate fellowship at the University of Miami (Music Recording).  He has been a longstanding member of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir (Vienna), and was a clinician at the Choir Seminar in Hinterschmiding, Germany.

 

Martin is a staff member of the Information Technology Department at Wofford College.  He is also a freelance recording engineer, and has recently released CDs, as well as DVDS, for classical musicians.  He is busy throughout the year recording concerts of the Carolina Youth Symphony, and the Furman Wind and Symphonic Bands.

 

Chris Sigmon, Contemporary Music Leader       

  

Our weekday staff includes (L-R) Pastor Emily Edenfield, Carey Gillespie, Frankie Deal, Pastor Mike Shackelford, and Chip Hicks