At Fellowship, we see ministry to children as essential, and we take our responsibility to raise a generation of Christ-followers as a mission that requires the parents, home, church, and volunteers all partnering together to cultivate the spiritual roots in the fertile soil of our kids’ hearts.
In addition to our weekend services, we also offer:
Curriculum
Fellowship Kids (our Sunday program) seeks to provide environments and opportunities for kids to hear, believe, and live-out the gospel. GO! takes kids chronologically through the Bible so they can know how each story fits together to tell the Big Bible Story of God’s love and redemption. More than that, GO! places God at the center of each story.
Fellowship Kids
Resources for Parents
Being an intentional parent can feel very overwhelming at times. We never want you to feel alone or helpless as you navigate what it means to lead your child. Fellowship Kids is here to help resource you when you need it most!
Guest Info
We understand that visiting a new church can be a great adventure—fun, exciting and even a little bit scary. We love meeting new families and hope to make your first experience with us as comfortable and welcoming as possible.
Check-In
Volunteers are available at our Guest Check-In, located just inside the north Learning Center doors, to welcome and escort visiting children to their classes. This is an opportunity for you to provide basic information about your child, receive your security tags, and ask any questions you may have about Fellowship or our children’s ministries. On subsequent visits, families may check-in at any computer kiosk in the building.
Security
Parents must personally drop off and pick up their kids at their classrooms each time they are in the Learning Center. To ensure the safety of our children, a computer security tagging system is used to identify children with their parents. Each week families receive a new tag with a unique three digit code. This security tag must be presented to pick up your child. In addition, if it becomes necessary to page you, we will display this code, along with the first three letters of your child’s first name, on the screens in the Worship Center.
New to Fellowship?
Visit our Plan a Visit page to find out what to expect when you visit this Sunday.
Volunteer
To be a part of Fellowship Kids is to be a part of a unique neighborhood. Each week in our classrooms, volunteers are building meaningful relationships that go beyond weekend services—not only with the kids they serve, but with one another. These relationships deepen as we continue to serve side by side, week in and week out, working together—as neighbors—to shape a firm foundation of faith in Christ in our kids.
Serving in children’s ministry is for ALL of us, not just a chosen few. We believe it is reasonable to expect each Fellowship family to actively engage in and support the spiritual development of our children. Serving in children’s ministry is easier than you might think. We have a wonderful staff and many veteran volunteers ready to train, equip and help you experience success in cultivating the soil of our children’s hearts.
Baptism
Baptism is one of the two ordinances instituted and commanded by Jesus for believers. It is an outward symbol of an inward life change and a celebration of becoming part of the body of Christ. Because we believe profession of faith and baptism are so important, we require all children who desire to be baptized at Fellowship to meet with a pastor in order to determine their understanding and readiness.
To register for an upcoming baptism, please fill out our Baptism Interest Form, and a staff person will contact you to set up a meeting.
Child Dedication
At Fellowship, child dedication is really parent dedication. Parents have the primary responsibility for and influence over their children’s lives and have received the directive to “train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6). To this end, we offer families an opportunity to publicly declare their intentions to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord and the church body an opportunity to commit to walking with parents.
To register for the next child dedication, please fill out our Child Dedication Registration Form. For more information, please contact Linda Wornell (Brentwood Campus) or Emily Drake (Franklin Campus).
Staff
Marty comes from Dayton, Ohio and was raised by hard-working, blue-collar parents. He attended church regularly but had no personal faith of his own. In his senior year of college, two roommates relentlessly shared Christ with him and on October 17, 1981 Marty came to faith in Christ. He was truly born again and has never been the same.
While in college, Marty met and fell in love with his future wife, Lora, at the University of Dayton. Lora became a nurse and Marty became a systems engineer working on all kinds of Air Force weapon systems at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. They married in 1984 with babies arriving shortly thereafter.
Fast forward a few years and through their passion for evangelism at their local church, they became convinced that God was calling them to full-time ministry, willing to “go anywhere and do anything for Christ.” They quit jobs, pulled up roots, raised support and moved away to focus on serving families through FamilyLife, a marriage and parenting ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. While there, Marty served as executive director touching hundreds of thousands of lives. Marty and Lora served with FamilyLife until 1998 when they felt led to help a new church get off the ground in Franklin, Tennessee. It was Fellowship Bible Church.
Today, Marty serves as the Pastor of Family Ministry, or as he likes to say “the Pastor of All Things Wonderful.” He leads a wide range of ministries including Fellowship Kids, Fellowship Student Ministry, Marriage Ministry, Family Ministry, Promiseland/Childcare, and specialized ministries, including Adoption, Foster and Orphan Care, and Special Needs Ministry. Together, he and Lora have four grown children and two grandchildren.
Every week you will see Marty and Lora serving with big grins in the Learning Center, expressing their love and care to all. And behind every interaction is their passion for proclaiming Christ and growing children, students and families in their faith.
Monty serves as the Associate Pastor of Family Ministry, helping lead our church-wide Family Ministry alongside Marty. After six years focused on Student Ministry, he now oversees both Kids and Student Ministries across campuses—developing staff, shaping strategy, and creating space for kids, students, and families to encounter Jesus.
Monty is originally from a small town in Texas. He earned a degree in Biblical Studies from Dallas Baptist University and is currently pursuing a master’s at Dallas Theological Seminary. During college, he spent his summers at Pine Cove Camps—a place that shaped his faith, clarified his calling, and, as the running joke goes, introduced him to his wife in year five. After graduating, Monty joined Pine Cove’s full-time staff and served there for five years before stepping into local church ministry. Molly, a Tennessee native and proud University of Tennessee grad (Go Vols!), has been by his side since 2014. They now live in South Nashville with their three kids: Addie, Shep, and Wes.
Monty is passionate about theology, leadership development, and helping people step more fully into the life God has called them to live. He believes that discipleship is most powerful when it’s rooted in Scripture, lived out in relationships, and guided by the Spirit. When he’s not at church, you’ll likely find him on the golf course, flipping pancakes on the Blackstone, or getting pulled into an impromptu living room dance party with his kids. He considers it a deep joy to serve at Fellowship and to walk alongside our families and leaders.
