Staff Members

Adrienne McCabe, Assistant Second and Third Grades

Rev. Leroy McElveen, Assistant Fourth-Eighth Grades & Bus Driver

Administration

Erie W. Brown, Administrator

Erie, a native of Clarendon County, has been with CCLC since its inception in 1999. She originally served as Chairman of the Board until stepping down to accept the position of administrator in the fall of 2007. Erie is married to Len Brown and they have three adult children and two grandsons. She formally worked for the Bank of Clarendon for twenty years and as secretary to New Harmony and Sardinia Churches for twelve years.

Kim A. DuRant, Program Coordinator

Kim Allen DuRant is a graduate of Columbia College with a degree in Speech Correction. She was a Speech Therapist for Sumter School District #17 for 18 years. During this time she also acquired a Master’s degree in School Administration and has a +30 certification.
Kim is a member of New Harmony PCA where she enjoys teaching Sunday School and singing in the choir.
Kim has been teaching at CCLC since 2000. This privilege is second only to being a wife to Harry DuRant and mother to two grown children.

Teachers

Brenda Marlowe, Second and Third Grades

Brenda is a native Clarendon County resident married to Roger Marlowe. They have two adult children and one grandson. Brenda has previously worked for Clarendon District II and attends Little Star PH Church.

Kathy N. Daniels, Fourth-Sixth Grades

Kathy grew up in Columbia, SC and received an Associate Degree in Banking and Finance and Business Management from Midlands Technical College. She is married to Charlie Daniels and they have two children, Trey and Katherine. Kathy is active in her church, New Harmony Presbyterian, teaching Sunday School, singing in the choir and participating in the women’s ministry.

Gwendolyn Wesley, Seventh and Eighth Grades

Gwendolyn Gardenia Wesley is a devout born-again Christian born in Manning, South Carolina on July 21, 1949. At age 6 she moved with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Oliver, and her grandmother, Mrs. Lillie Brogdon, to Philadelphia, PA. At an early age Gwen began to show interest in singing and dancing and studied and pursued these interests all through elementary and high school. She sang in her choir in junior high school and attended modern jazz dance classes both in school and privately.

These music and dance studies paid off at the end of her senior year of high school as she and her friends, Cassandra Ann Wooten, Nadine Felder, and Jean Davis formed the highly exciting, yet minimally successful R&B goup HONEY AND THE BEES. The group recorded and made appearances around the Philadelphia area. After winning a talent show they toured as the opening act with many famous artists, most notably, Jerry Butler and James Brown. After the break-up of the HONEY AND THE BEES, Ms. Wesley and Cassandra Wooten teamed with Cheryl Mason-Jacks and recorded three highly successful Disco albums under the name, THE RITCHIE FAMILY, with whom she toured the world.

In November of 1981, Gwendolyn gave up the secular singing and performing world and gave her life to Jesus Christ at the Messiah Evangelical Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 1985 she moved back to her birthplace of Manning, SC and continued her work for the Lord with Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church. She is currently serving her church as president of the evangelism team, bible study teacher, member of the usher ministry and praise dance choreographer. She is also the past vice president of the Young Women’s Auxiliary of the Black River Missionary Baptist Association. She gave up this position to take on the presidency of the usher ministry of said association. In 2002 Gwen was certified by the South Carolina Baptist Congress as a teacher, which qualifies her to teach Bible subjects on the local and state level.

Gwen continues to use her beautiful voice as she sings with the G. P. Windley Inspirational Choir of Ebenezer Baptist Church and with her friends, Michelle Holland and Yolanda Frazier, as the gospel trio, SISTERS IN CHRIST.

Mrs. Wesley is married to the famous trombonist and musician, the legendary FRED WESLEY. They have two sons, Fredric, III and Victor.
Gwendolyn Wesley’s motto is: I LOVE JESUS BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME. (I John 4:19)

Kim A. DuRant, Ninth-Twelve Grades

(see Administration)

Board of Directors

Steve Wearden, Chairman

Steve grew up in Huntington, WV. He finished Indiana University School of Optometry in 1999 and then moved to Manning, SC with his wonderful wife, Lisa. Here, Steve began a solo practice at Clarendon Eye Center. He has three young girls under the age of seven – Emily, Katie, and Courtney. Wearden enjoys camping, swimming, Marshall football, hanging out with his family and learning more about God.

Bobbie C. Reaves, Co-Chairman

Bobbie has been a longtime native of Manning and is a graduate of Manning High School. She holds degrees from the University of South Carolina in Business Administration and law. She is currently working as an attorney. Bobbie has been involved in the community and has served and continues to serve on various boards and commissions. She is a member and Sunday School Teacher New Harmony Presbyterian Church. She is married with two children and five grandchildren.

Stacey McInnis, Treasurer

Stacey joined the Clarendon Christian Learning Center board in 2005 and is currently serving as Treasurer. He is a Vice President and Human Resources Officer for the Bank of Clarendon and has served on numerous community boards and committees throughout his 21 years in banking. Stacey is a member of Clarendon Baptist Church in Alcolu, SC and is active in his church as a Deacon, Sunday School Teacher, and AWANA Youth Leader. Stacey and his wife, Nancy, live in Manning, SC. They have two girls, Elizabeth and Campbell, and a son, Reese.

Brenda Keels, Secretary

Brenda Keels has served as the secretary of the Clarendon Christian Learning Center since its inception. Born in Florida, Brenda moved to South Carolina at an early age. She attended college at Spartanburg Methodist and later transferred to the University of South Carolina in Sumter, SC. In 1985, Brenda married her best friend, Eddie, and they have two wonderful and beautiful daughters, Kristen and Leah. She is a legal assistant at the law firm of Johnson, McKenzie, and Robinson, LLC. Brenda is a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alcolu, SC. She is also a member of the Evening Primrose Garden Club, Secretary of the Rex Josey Park Committee, secretary of Called Too Action Committee in Manning and serves on the Taste of Clarendon board.

Pastor Mitchell Adger

Pastor Mitchell Adger is the son of Mrs. Bernice Adger and the late Deacon Johnny Adger of Manning, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Manning High School, Manning, South Carolina. He attended Morris College where he received his Bachelor degree. He has done further studies toward his Bachelor of Divinity Degree at Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina. He has done further studies toward his Master’s of Divinity Degree at Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Presently, he is studying at Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina.

Pastor Adger is a member of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Manning, South Carolina. He assumed the assistant pastorate of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church where he served from January 1986 to May 1997. He was licensed into the Gospel Ministry in July 1981 and was ordained in December 1983.

He has served in many positions in Christian ministry: Assistant Pastor of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church from January 1986 to May 1997; Clerk of Black River Missionary Baptist Association; Treasurer of Black River Baptist Association; Executive Board Member of the Pee Dee Sunday School Department and Assistant Secretary; Assistant Clerk of the Pee Dee Baptist Association, Co-chairman of the South Carolina Baptist Congress of Christian Education Registration Committee, Chairman of the South Carolina Baptist Congress of Christian Education Registration Committee, member of the Baptist Education and Missionary Convention of South Carolina Executive Board, Vice- Chairman of the South Carolina Fellowship to the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

He serves as President of the Black River District Congress of Christian Education, Clerk of the Pee Dee Baptist Association, Treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Congress of Education, (SCBCCE) and Chairman of the South Carolina Fellowship of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. Presently, He serves as Pastor of the Mt. Zion Chapel Missionary Baptist Church of Pamplico, South Carolina from June 1997 to present.

Pastor is married to the former Mary Gibson of Summerton, South Carolina. They have four children, Chase, Michael, Brandon and Ashley.

David & Martha Baker

The Bakers, a husband and wife team, have been married 32 years and have one daughter. David is a business consultant and Martha is an adult education teacher. This couple has taught a Sunday School class for adults with disabilities for 22 years at First Baptist Church in Manning, SC where David serves as a deacon. The Bakers have served on the board of CCLC since its inception, contributing countless hours including Martha’s participation in a Moms-In-Touch group who prayed for this ministry two years prior to its establishment and David’s contribution of valuable business acumen and leadership.

John Nabholz

John joined the CCLC board in 2009 and serves on the Building Committee. He operates Integrity Home Service, a residential repair and improvement business in Alcolu.

John holds a bachelor’s degree in Bible from Houghton College (New York) and has completed additional education in the public relations field. Before God moved the Nabholz family to South Carolina in 2006, John served as a public affairs officer in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve. He later held several corporate public relations, employee communications and photography management positions in the chemical, timber products and food industries. He’s a member of New Harmony Presbyterian Church in Alcolu and is active there as a deacon, Sunday School teacher, and choir member. He and his wife, DeAnne, enjoy life in rural Alcolu with four of their five sons – Stephen, Samuel, Jakob, and David. Their eldest, Matthew, serves in the Air Force.

Kirby Johnson

Kirby Johnson grew up in Sardinia, graduated from Clemson University in Agriculture Economics and is a self-employed farmer, warehouseman and cotton ginner. He and his wife Miriam (a former CCLC board member) have lived “all over” Clarendon County, but now make their home near Alcolu with two children God gave them through adoption.
Both born in Ukraine, Leah and David have fallen right in line in Manning’s Early Childhood Center and Primary School. Leah has enjoyed Released Time classes for 2 years now and David looks forward to seeing what fun it will be to walk across the street from Manning Primary to the CCLC classroom on Boundary St. for the 2010-2011 school year.
Other than his new mid-life role as Dad, Kirby enjoys singing in his church choir, cooking, and spending time at the beach. His “green thumb” helps keep the Johnson’s yard tame and he also says he “used to play golf”!

Deborah Rowell

Deborah has been a resident of Clarendon County for forty years. Since graduating from Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC she has been in the Information Services Department at Federal Mogul Corporation in Summerton, SC. Deborah is an active member of Manning United Methodist Church, where she is currently serving as the Assistant Financial Secretary. She and her husband, Cecil, have three grown children: Michael, Chad, and Courtney. Their only grandchild, Eric, has enjoyed participating in CCLC classes.

Dr. Gordon K. Reed

Born in Bristol, TN
Public schools, Weaverville, NC
King College, B.A.
Columbia Seminary, Decatur, GA, B.D., (M.Div.)
Covenanter College, Ft. Worth, TX, L.L.D.

Married to the former Miriam Clark of Signal Mountain, TN
Children: Elizabeth McNutt, Robert T., John K., Nancy Zoeller (wife of Rev. Fred Zoeller, pastor, Westminster PCA, Everett, WA), Virginia Akin.

Ordained: Knoxville Presbytery, PCUS, 7/1/56

Pastorates:
1953 – 1959 Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church, Mission Pastor
1959 – 1964 Wee Kirk Covenant, Atlanta, GA, Pastor
1964 – 1975 Second Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SC, Pastor
1975 – 1978 Kendall Presbyterian Church, Miami, FL, Pastor
1980 – 1986 First Presbyterian Church, Macon, GA, Pastor
1986 – 1992 Raymond Presbyterian, Jackson, MS, Interim Pastor
1986 – 1992 Trinity Presbyterian, Jackson, MS, Interim Pastor
1993 – 2004 New Harmony Church, Alcolu, SC, Pastor
1993 – 2004 Sardinia Presbyterian Church, Sardinia, SC, Pastor
2004 – Christ Church, Presbyterian, Evans, GA, Pastor

Other:
1978 – 1980 Ridge Haven Conference Center
1986 – 1992 Reformed Theological Seminary, Professor and Administrator Knox Theological Seminary, Adjunct Professor Word Ministries, Inc., Founder and Minister Committee of Forty to organize the PCA First Chairman, Administration Committee, PCA

Conference speaker in churches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Belize, and Japan.

Author of six books – those still in print:
Living Life by God’s Law (study in the Ten Commandments)
Plain Talk on Christian Doctrine (studies in the Shorter Catechism)
Christmas, Triumph Over Tragedy (expanded and republished in 2001)
The Ministry, Career or Calling?

Contributing editor, Presbyterian Journal, Christian Observer.
Books and articles available at www.reasonablehope.com.

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