Joshua Diggs
Teaching Minister
Joshua’s experience ranges from youth ministry to adult groups coordination and from member assimilation to preaching and teaching. He is a gifted speaker and teacher and loves studying God’s Word. Joshua served at the First Colony Church of Christ in Sugar Land, Texas, for six years as the Community Life Minister. He oversaw 80+ small groups, new member assimilation, outreach, special projects, teaching and, on occasion, preaching. Most recently, he served at the Antioch Church of Christ in Nashville as the Senior Minister. Joshua is passionate about making disciples by teaching God’s Word and sharing Jesus with this broken world.
Jake Hendrix
Executive Minister
Jake grew up in California. He experienced culture shock for the first time moving to Arkansas where he received his B.S. in Public Administration and his M.B.A. from Harding University. He and his wife, Shelly, served as missionaries in South America for almost five years and in Asia for one year. Jake now serves as the Executive Minister at Clear Creek. He has a passion for missions, missionary care, and helping people disciple others in their walk with Jesus. Jake and Shelly have been married since 2000. They have two small girls that keep them young and busy.
Evan Aldridge
Discipleship Minister
Evan is the sole minister on staff born and raised in Chattanooga. He attended Freed-Hardeman University where he received a B.S. in Psychology and met his wife Rachel. After feeling a call to the mission field, God led them to the country of the Dominican Republic where they started and ran a private Christian high school aimed at using the educational process as a medium for discipleship. After moving back stateside, Evan became the Children’s Minister at Clear Creek in June of 2013. He worked in that role until the church’s renewed focus on making disciples opened up the new position of Discipleship Minister, a minister to work with Clear Creek’s main disciple-making tool of groups. He has been serving in that role since September of 2016. Evan and Rachel have three beautiful children: Connor, Anniston and Charlee.
Jana Cannon
First Connections Minister
Jana was born in rural West Kentucky to a farming, church-going family that still lives on and farms the same land and attends the same small country church. Having graduated with a B.A. Degree in Physical Education and Elementary Education from Murray State University in 1982, Jana taught school and coached for a few years. Jana in partnership with her husband has served in Youth Ministry almost 30 years in Kentucky, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. She has been on staff at Clear Creek since 2004: serving in Youth Ministry, Children’s Ministry and as First Connections Minister. Jana makes it her business to seek out new faces and make sure they feel welcome. Jana has been married to Phil since 1978. They have two sons, Caleb and Kidron and two daughters-in-law, Jessie and Rebekah.
Laura Harbin
Children's Minister
Laura grew up in east Alabama and the hill country of Texas. She was actively involved in church life through teaching Bible classes, serving the elderly, and working with inner city missions. These experiences plus involvement in the campus ministry at Auburn helped shape her desire to enter ministry. After graduating from Auburn University with a B.A. in Psychology and Masters in Organizational Leadership from Southern Christian University, she married Ben and they moved to Chattanooga in the Fall of 2003. She served as the Children's Minister at Clear Creek from 2005-2010. A career move for Ben took their family to Manchester, TN and Kerrville, TX, where Laura stayed at home with their two boys and later worked in their school library. The summer of 2019 God called their family back to Clear Creek to serve again.
Michael Chambers
High School Minister
Michael spent his first 18 years living in Knoxville, Tennessee where he had his faith fostered by a tremendous family and strong youth ministry experience. From there he went on to Tennessee Tech University to study Special Education and earn his teaching license. It was during this time that he met his wife Abi through the TTU University Christian Student Center. After getting his degree and a few ministry internships, Michael felt confirmed in the call to ministry. He took a position in the youth ministry at Collegeside Church of Christ in Cookeville where he served for a year before making the move to Chattanooga to serve as the High School Minister. In 2021, he completed his Masters in Christian Ministry from Lipscomb.
Sean-Alex Smith
Worship Minister
Sean-Alex was raised in Decatur, Alabama where he was a part of a large church community that helped cultivate his passion for discipleship and faith. He went to Harding University and earned his BBA in Information Systems and Project Management. During sophomore year of college, he felt a passion growing for ministry so he double-majored in a BS in Leadership And Ministry. During college his work in ministry began. He worked with several larger influential churches during this time. He interned at the West Houston Church of Christ in Houston, Texas for two summers and worked at Downtown Church of Christ in Searcy, Arkansas during the school year in charge of what is largely known as “Downtown Singing”. He will tell you one of his most rewarding ministry experiences was working for a small congregation in Lonoke, Arkansas called Palm Street Church of Christ.
Brecken Joice
Youth Minister
Brecken grew up in central Oklahoma and Arkansas. She was actively involved in church life through teaching Bible classes, working with inner city missions, and had a large community of family and adults pouring into her spiritual growth. From there she went to Harding University to study Elementary Education and earn her teaching license. After a few ministry internships, Brecken felt called to ministry. It was not until her student teaching experience she felt confirmed in her call to ministry. Then in the Spring of 2023 God called her to Clear Creek.