Jeff became Northstar's second pastor in 2009 after the retirement of founding pastor Bob Jackson. He and his family are from southeast Arkansas where he served as a campus minister at the University of Arkansas at Monticello for eight years before planting Journey Church there and serving as its founding pastor for six years.
Jeff's wife, Carolyn, works at Blacksburg High School in the guidance office as the administrative assistant. Their son Sam is on YoungLife staff in Salisbury, NC and married to Sidney. Their daughter Adelyn is a senior at Christopher Newport University and helps lead youth at a local church as well as serving as a worship leader with Cru at CNU.
Jeff desires that Northstar Church continue to encourage others and build spiritual leaders. He blogs regularly at journeyguy.com, and his first book called Super Center Savior is available at the church office or through online retailers like Amazon.
Jeff is the Lead Pastor on the staff at Northstar. Visit our leadership page to get to know the rest of the team.
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I asked our staff this week what they were excited about in relation to our upcoming Passion Week services. Beginning with Palm Sunday on March 20 through Good Friday and ending on Easter Sunday March 27, this key week highlights the apex of Jesus’ earthly ministry. Each of our staff had a different perspective that you’ll enjoy. I hope their …
On Sunday, February 21, we celebrated the baptisms of Matt Schroeder, Rob Weir and Robert Taylor. We are excited as a church family anytime someone is baptized because it is a public demonstration of a spiritual reality. Through their baptism, they showed their families and friends that they have given their lives to loving Jesus Christ and have received His …
We all love a good story. Often, impactful stories are tools which can influence others in powerful ways. The Bible is full of people sharing stories of how God radically changed their lives. The sharing of these stories and testimonies often brought about life change in others as God used the stories to open their eyes to the beauty of …
Introducing the Northstar Video Blog – or, the “Vlog.” We’re going to try a 2-3 minute video each week to share with you different things the staff is learning, laughing about or encouraged by. Our first vlog is by Associate Pastor Neal Nelson. He was challenged by the message from Sunday, February 7. In this video, he shares about the Holy Spirit being …
Our special service began with the debut of our 2015 Highlight Video: Northstar has experienced significant numerical growth in the past six years, with 2012-2013 being the peak years. Last year, we saw a numerical decline in our worship attendance from those years. The State of the Church 2016 helped us understand how a church can grow while “shrinking” at the …
We were excited to baptize Meg Fetterly, Joseph Hunter, Emma Cook, Daniel Jones, Allison Beard, and Carter Cross and Carson Cross during one of our December Nights services in 2015. Here are their testimony videos and the live baptism video.
On Sunday, January 17, lead pastor Jeff Noble launched our new study called Acts: The Sent Church [podcast here]. After a multiyear study of the Old Testament books of Kings and Chronicles concluded last summer, our church has been eager to study Acts. Whereas the former study focused on the history of the people of God as Israel, the Acts study focuses …
Every year in December, Northstar takes up two offerings in its December services. One is our regular ministry offering. The second offering is our Holiday Missions Offering. The HMO is given to the ministries and agencies that Northstar partners with to encourage them during the holidays. [For a listing of those, click here.] Our HMO Spotlight series highlight those ministries …
Every year in December, Northstar takes up two offerings in its December services. One is our regular ministry offering. The second offering is our Holiday Missions Offering. The HMO is given to the ministries and agencies that Northstar partners with to encourage them during the holidays. [For a listing of those, click here.] Our HMO Spotlight series highlight those ministries …
