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Written by Zach Anderson - Starbuck Times New Editor   
Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:21

Mahoney affirmed as Head Pastor at Hope Community Church


Pastor Kelly Mahoney recently received affirmation at Hope Community Church to become the church's head pastor. Mahoney's title was changed from an associate pastor who was doing small groups and discipleship to now being the head pastor On Sept. 11.

"I an excited to be in that role and my wife (Cheryl) is excited for me," Mahoney said. "We love this church and this area as well as the people we are working with."

Mahoney has been at Hope Community Church since March 2010.

"We both grew up on farms," Mahoney said of his wife Cheryl and himself. "We can relate to living in a rural community."

Mahoney grew up on a small farm near Kimball, SD as the youngest of six children. Upon graduating Kimball High School in 1990, he got his undergrad degree at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD in 1996.

While in college, Mahoney got in touch with religion in 1992. From that point on, Mahoney's dreams of building things as a mechanical engineer turned into a calling to build people instead.

The road that led Mahoney to Hope Community Church involved completing several church callings, including an internship with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship at the end of college.

Before attending seminary at Liberty Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, VA where he graduated in 2008 with a masters of Divinity, Mahoney spent time as a youth director in Williston, ND for almost two years. Mahoney also served as a youth pastor at New Life Evangelical Free Church in Watertown, SD from 1998-2005.

After graduating from seminary Mahoney served as a youth pastor at Bethel Evangelical Free Church in Fargo, ND. That would be the final stop before coming to Hope Community Church.

Hope Community Church holds worship services in both Starbuck and Glenwood on Sundays. The 9 a.m. service is at 117 W 5th Street in Starbuck (old Senior Center/Theatre) and the 10:30 a.m. service is held at Central Square in Glenwood (105 2nd Ave. NE).