Meet Our Staff

April Sutton
Children's Sunday School Teacher Ages 6-9
(April's husband Bobby is the teens Adult's Assistant Sunday school teacher)

     Hi. My name is April Sutton. I'm 32 years old. I've lived here in Tennessee all my life. I am so thankful that God has given our family an opportunity serve him at New Center Baptist Church. God has done so much for me. Growing up He made sure there were always grandparents there to encourage me to go to church and learn more about Him. Even with all their encouragement though, I chose to live a life out of church and apart from Christ while in my teens and early twenties. These were long hard spent years. During this time I would get married and divorced and move back home with my parents with my children. I was 25. I was depressed. I felt like a failure. I knew there had to be more than this. I was searching for something. I began to have a desire to go to church. My children had never been before. I went even though I didn't know exactly why. I had only the understanding of a child about God because that is where my study of him had left off. All I had up to that point was the stories that I had studied in Sunday School. I didn't think about salvation. I thought I was saved because I use to go to church when I was a kid, I use to be in Christmas plays as a kid, I even knew a couple of verses of scripture. But one Sunday morning the invitation came after the sermon at the church we had been visiting and I knew I was lost, even though I had always told everyone that I had been saved because of the things that I mentioned earlier plus I thought that If you didn't do awful terrible things that proved you were saved, but that morning I knew I was lost and in need of a Savior. I went forward and at 25 years old I accepted Jesus as that Savior. Not only has God forgiven me and given me eternal life, He has given me a wonderful husband, Bobby Sutton, that loves and serves the Lord. He has given me two very sweet children, Connor-12 and Rachel-11 and both love and serve the Lord. In these things alone I have the riches that only some dream of. I thank God for all He has done for me. I know that my life will be spent in service to the one who died in my place. One day I will thank Him face to face. God Bless You.   2 Corinthians 5:17