Staff & Leaders

We are a church that is led by a plurality of Pastor-Elders and served by deacons. We also have some support staff for various roles. You can learn more about each of them and find out their contact information below

Zack Ford – Senior Pastor

Zack is our Senior Pastor at Grace Bible Church. He and his wife Brittni moved to Rabun County in August, 2013 from Louisville, KY, where Zack was in Seminary at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before moving to Louisville, Zack and Brittni lived in their hometowns in the upstate of South Carolina. Before coming to Grace […]

Matt Leff – Pastor-Elder

Matt Leff has been a member of Grace Bible Church since January of 2020, and began serving as the Director of Music in August of 2021. As a bi-vocational leader, Matt also serves as the band director at Rabun County High School. Matt has been involved in Church music ministry since 2000, serving as Minister […]

Will Mitchell — Pastor-Elder

Will came to know the Lord at the age of 15 while attending a Brethren Church summer camp. He has been at GBC for 8 years and has served as an elder for 5. Will is a retired law enforcement officer and director of IT for the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Will has […]

Dylan Wagoner — Pastor-Elder

Dylan grew up in Northeast GA. Though not raised in church as a child, in God’s providence, as a teenager, his family started faithfully attending a church that believed and preached the Gospel and he came to Christ during that period. Dylan met his wife, Emily, at this church, they started dating, and they married […]

Tim Henderson – Deacon

Tim came to Christ at a young age. His father was a pastor, and Tim knew about God’s love at a very young age. He knew he was a sinner and was going to hell unless he accepted the greatest gift God could ever offer him — eternal life. He believed on Jesus and His word and the fact God sent His son as the willing sacrifice for […]

Dave Fazio — Deacon

Dave was saved and given a new life at the age of 28, in the winter of 1977. Struggling with worldly life, financial disaster, and many sinful guilts, his life and future changed one evening in a small fundamental Baptist Church. He asked Jesus to forgive him of his sin. Although his sinful guilt was gleaned, the financial disaster […]

Galen Morris — Deacon

Galen grew up going to church in Northeast Georgia and submitted his life to Christ when he was 14. During his high school years, Galen was very active in the youth group at church and spent time as a counselor at various summer camps from 2006-2010.   In 2014, Galen graduated with a degree in […]