Our mission

Our mission is the same as every church. We call it Jesus' Great Commission: to make disciples and teach them to live Jesus’ way, loving God and loving others. We say it this way: 

Find Jesus, follow him and guide others.

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Our core values

In order to accomplish our mission, collectively and individually, we need to conduct ourselves this way:

FOLLOW JESUS
Walk in Jesus’ steps, do what he did, think like he does. It means we love God and love others and choose God’s way over our way. We’ll join him in his plan to make all things new.

WALK TOGETHER
Be in community, do life together, worship together, love and encourage one another, grow more like Christ together.

BE A GUIDE
Invest in others, helping them take next steps with Jesus (make disciples).
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LIVE GENEROUSLY
Be generous with for the Kingdom of God, giving of our time, talents and treasure.

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Our core convictions

These foundational truths motive us:

JESUS BRINGS LIFE to the broken, hurting, lost, and spiritually dead.

Jesus’s goal isn’t changing out behavior, but CHANGING OUT HEARTS, so we can experience full life.

Jesus calls us to JOIN HIM in bringing life to others.

Our beliefs

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Our pastor

​Mark Schnell is the pastor at Albion Wesleyan Church since August 2018. He is passionate about preaching the transforming message of Jesus Christ in contextually sensitive and relevant ways. Even as a young child, he recognized the power of God’s Word through preaching. One of his earliest memories is sitting in church between his mother and grandmother, captivated by passionate preaching. 

Mark began to follow Jesus as a pre-teen. At 18 he responded to God’s call into pastoral ministry, turned down a football scholarship and enrolled at Indiana Wesleyan University.

For sixteen years he served Wesleyan churches from 30 to 1500+ in attendance in multiple roles as solo pastor, associate pastor, youth pastor, and worship leader. Wanting to expand his theological and biblical toolbox and serve the Church by equipping women and men to be faithful and effective preachers of the Word of God, he pursued two graduate degrees at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and a doctorate in homiletics (preaching) at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto. He is currently writing his dissertation while serving as AWC’s pastor and adjunct professor at Indiana Wesleyan and Wesley Seminary. 

He deeply desires to see God transform lives. He loves to read a good book, work with wood, hunt for deer, and grill with charcoal on his many Weber kettle grills.

He has been married to Sharie for 27 years, his partner in life and ministry. They have two children: daughter, Kate (15) and son, C.J. (9).

THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

The Leadership Team provides spiritual leadership and missional guidance for the church, develops policies and supports the pastor and helping him to make wise decisions in carrying out the mission of the church.

Brian Frick
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Diane Slone
Treasurer
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Tammy Steele
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MINISTRY DIRECTORS

The Ministry Directors provide leadership for teams that carry out ministry in alignment with our core strategy, overseeing these key purposes in our church

Jana Frick
Connections/
​Caring for One Another
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Laurie Beck
Meal Ministry
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Katy Knox
Discipleship
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Adam Ousley
Worship
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Tammy Steele
​Outreach
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Brian Frick
Operations
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Sharie Schnell
Leadership Development
& Communications
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