MISSION AND VISION

Go therefore and make disciples...

MISSION

Following the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20), the final admonition Jesus gave to His disciples during His earthly ministry, Northside Baptist Church believes we exist to make disciples of Jesus Christ both here and abroad. This is our mission statement.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matthew 28:19-20

VISION

Our vision here at Northside is reaching the
NOW GENERATION with the gospel while navigating a RAPIDLY CHANGING culture.

OUR TEAM 

Pastors - Elders - & Staff

Dr. Chad Scarbro

Lead Pastor

Chad was born and 'raised up right' in Knoxville Tn. He graduated from Powell High School.

He met his wife Amber in College at Tennessee Wesleyan University. They have 3 boys and 1 girl and they all share a love for sports. Chad and Amber have been married for 20 years.

Chad's life goal is to love God, serve others, and make disciples of Jesus. His daily motivation is to "do consistently what others do occasionally".

Chad served in Youth Ministry for 11 years before being called to Lead Pastor at NBC.
He loves to spend quality time with his family and his 2 dogs, Bo and Duke!

Daryn Mullholand

Administrative Pastor

Daryn is a St Pete native and graduated from Keswick Christian School in Seminole.

He met his wife Tamara while a graduate student at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Daryn & Tamara have attended Northside Baptist Church for their entire married life, and celebrated 28 years of marriage in 2023.
They have two sons, Joshua and Jacob, who both graduated from Northside Christian School and are now starting their respective careers.

Daryn spent 20 years in the medical industry before God called him to become a pastor here at Northside and he has served Northside in many capacities for the past decade on staff.
Daryn loves family vacations, any foods with coconut, playing board games and card games, visiting Northside families and making new friends!
Most importantly, Daryn loves to teach God's Word and will tell anyone who is willing to listen about his Savior Jesus!

Drew Wallingford

Student Ministries Pastor

Drew is originally from Pinellas county, lived here, graduated from Largo High School, and even met Lexy, his wife, at USF St. Petersburg. He has been doing youth ministry for over 10 years and since moving back to this area has been here at Northside!

Lexy and Drew have been married since 2014 and have two kids, Krypton and Kinsley.

Drew's entire goal in life and in ministry is to see lives changed for Christ and see people get closer to Him. Equipping those that God calls and helping to call those that have not yet understood. Knowing that students are especially the audience that God has called Him to!

Elijah Guzman

Worship Director 

Elijah is hailing from Orlando, FL where he met his beautiful wife Naomi Guzman. In 2013 Elijah joined the US Army and in 2016  Elijah was called to serve in the Lord’s Army. In 2020 Elijah graduated from Belmont University with a Bachelor's Degree in Worship Leadership and was called to move back to Florida. Now as a family of four, Elijah loves to spend his time with his family going to theme parks, going to the beach, and watching Pro wrestling.

Elijah's Ministry Bible verse

Psalm 63:3-4
3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. 

Rick Gross

Connections & Young Adults Director

Rick's life goal is to help connect people to what God has for them. Rick would love to see a Super Bowl in person and meet Dave Matthews Band.
Rick grew up here in St. Petersburg, graduating from Boca Ciega High School (woohoo class of '99!)

Rick and his wife Jenn met while doing community theater. They have two awesome boys, Gavin and Nolan. Together, they form the likes of a family that had never been seen.
 
Rick came to Northside after 8 years experience in full time ministry.
He loves to read, watch football or baseball, and find a park to hike at with his family!

Heather McKenzie 

Children's Director

Heather was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. She grew up at NBC and attended Northside Christian School from Kindergarten - 12th grade. She graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Elementary Education.

Heather spent 10+ years teaching elementary school (two years of that at NCS) and now homeschools her daughters.  

She has been married to her husband, Casey, for almost 14 years. They have four daughters: Finley, Hollis, Adley, and Quinn. She loves taking pictures, going on adventures, traveling, and making memories.

Her family’s motto is: Be a blessing! She is passionate about encouraging and teaching the future generations to intentionally and passionately love and serve Jesus.

Mark Martini

Maintenance Director 

Mandee Gross

Office Administrator 

Mandee was born in Byron Center, Michigan and relocated to Dunedin, Florida when she was in the 5th grade. She is a graduate of Dunedin High School and St. Petersburg College.

She and her husband Bill have been married 17 years and have 2 kids (Turner and Kayla).

Mandee has been in accounting/office administrative work her whole working career, she has worked in all realms of business - Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Marine, before God brought her to work at Northside where she started in the NCS Preschool then later worked for several years as the Assistant to MS/HS Principal before coming to NBC - Mandee has worked for Northside going on 7 years.

Mandee loves a good cup of coffee, crafting, and hanging out with her family. She also loves the mountains and traveling!

ELDERS

Rob Blenis

Ron Peters

Mike Stofer

Chad Scarbro

David Lasseter

Jay Moir

Drew Wallingford

Mitch Kennedy

John Duff

Daryn Mullholand

WHAT WE BELIEVE

The following are the core beliefs of Northside St.Pete based on the foundational truths taught in the bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.

THE TRINITY

We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; that these are equal in every divine perfection, and they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption.

Matthew 28:18-19; 2 Corinthians 13:14

GOD THE FATHER

We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

John 1:12, 18; Ephesians 1:3-6

JESUS CHRIST

We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teaching. We believe in His substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth.

Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 14, 18; Romans 3:24-26; 1 Corinthians 15:50-55

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit permanently indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide.

Matthew 28:19; Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 6:19; John 16:7-11

THE WORD OF GOD

We believe the Bible is the Word of God, verbally and fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Peter 1:21

SALVATION

We believe that salvation is the gift of God and is received by personal faith in Jesus Christ whose blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins. We believe that our redemption has been accomplished by means of the grace of God and is not the result of any human works.

Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12; and Ephesians 2:5-6

CHRISTIAN CONDUCT

We believe that the Christian’s goal in conduct should be to glorify God among men and that his conduct should be blameless before the world; that he should be a faithful steward of his possessions and should strive to live a Christ like life guided by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Philippians 2:14-15

THE ORDINANCES

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the Name of the Triune God. We believe that the Lord’s Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death, the elements being symbolic. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 28:19, Acts 10:47-48; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

MARRIAGE

We believe that God created marriage as the union of one man and one woman by commitment to one another for life. We believe that marriages are to be a lasting blessing to both husband and wife and that God hates when marriages are not lasting or not a blessing.

Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:23-24; Matthew 19:3-8; Romans 7:2; Malachi 2:14-16

We believe that the primary responsibility of a husband or of a wife is to be God’s blessing to their spouse and that this is facilitated by husbands loving their wives and wives submitting to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 7:3-6; Ephesians 5:21-33

We believe some are given the gift of marriage and others the gift of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7:1-2, 7-9

We believe that sex is reserved by God for marriage and that sex outside of marriage is sin.

1 Corinthians 7:1-6; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 1:9-11

ETERNAL STATE

We believe that at death the souls of believers pass immediately into the presence of Jesus Christ. When Christ returns for the church they will be reunited with their glorified bodies and associated with Him forever in glory. At death the souls of unbelievers pass immediately into torment. At the close of the millennium they will be reunited with their bodies, judged before the Great White Throne, then cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated but to be separated from God forever in conscious punishment.

2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15

MAN

We believe that all human life is created by God in His Image, and all human life is therefore of inestimable worth and we are called to defend, protect and value all human life. We believe God wonderfully creates each human life as male or female, two distinct and complementary genders, and that the rejection of God's design in and through gender is sin against God and His creative sovereignty. We believe humans fell from their original sinless state through disobedience to God in the Garden; and all succeeding members of the human race are sinners by nature and by choice. We believe that humans are separated from God by their sin and cannot by their own power be reconciled to God. We believe that no sinner is beyond the hope offered through the Gospel.

Genesis 1:26-27; 2:17; 3:19; Ephesians 2:1-3; and Psalm 139

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

We believe that all the redeemed once saved are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever.

John 5:24; John 10:27-30; and Romans 8:1, 29-30

We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word, which however clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion for sinful living and carnality.

1 John 5:9-13; Titus 2:11-15

THE CHURCH

We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the church the primary task of giving the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. We believe in the local church, consisting of a body of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible profession of faith, and associated for worship, work, and fellowship.

Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

CREATION

We believe that all things in heaven and earth were created by God out of nothing and exist by His power.

Genesis 1:1; Colossians 1:16-17

LAST THINGS

We believe that the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy is the personal return of Jesus Christ to remove from the earth His church and to reward each believer according to his works.

2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

After the removal of the church, the righteous judgments of God will be poured out on the unbelieving world climaxed by the glorious return of Jesus Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His millennial kingdom.

Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6