Matt Marrs, director of Clay Platte Baptist Association, will be the speaker for the fourteenth annual Carroll Missions Week at Hannibal-LaGrange University, February 21-22.
The schedule for HLGU’s 2017 Carroll Missions Week includes 10 am services Tuesday and Wednesday in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center. There will also be a corresponding missions fair, set up in the lobby of the Roland Fine Arts Center, with representatives from ten different organizations. The public is invited to all services.
Each year, HLGU celebrates their global vision through a week of emphasizing missions on campus. Missionaries from all over the world travel to the HLGU campus to interact with students. HLGU students have had the opportunity to not only listen to missionaries from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and South America speak but to also sit down one-on-one and discuss their experiences and potential opportunities to serve.
Carroll Missions Week is a result of the vision and generous resources of the late Kenneth and Rheyma Carroll of Monroe City, MO. Before his death in 2008, Mr. Carroll said he wanted to do something that would make a difference in eternity. Through the establishment of the Carroll Missions Week and the building of the Carroll Missions Center and Carroll Science Center, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are touching eternity through the lives of thousands of HLGU students.
Marrs is a native of Kansas City, MO and earned his bachelor’s degree in Christian Ministry from Southwest Baptist University. During his time at SBU he served as youth pastor at Glendale Baptist Church in Springfield, MO, where he met his wife Kerry. He returned to Kansas City in 1996 to attend Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) and to join the staff of Northland Baptist Church. He graduated from MBTS with a Master of Divinity degree in 2000.
Matt served at Northland Baptist Church for more than 15 years, leading the church to be involved in a variety of church planting efforts. In 2011, Matt became the director of the Clay Platte Baptist Association. As the city coordinator for Kansas City, Matt is expanding his impact to the entire Kansas City metro area.
Matt and Kerry have three children, 16-year-old twin sons Mason and Micah, and 12-year-old daughter Kalynn.