Get to know the CMBA ministry team, explore their areas of work, and discover ways they can support the ministry of your church.
Jamie Rogers
Associational Missions Strategist
JamieR@ColumbiaMetro.org
Rev. Jamie Rogers serves as the CMBA Associational Missions Strategist. He "dreams with Columbia-area Baptist churches about how we can all be better at fulfilling the Great Commission together as an association. I am here to serve."
Rogers previously served as the Baptist Collegiate Ministry Director on the campus of the University of South Carolina. He has been the senior pastor to churches in South Carolina, North Carolina, and New York, where he served as a church planter with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Jamie and his wife Tasha have four children – Matthan, Anna Beth, Ruthie, and Josie. They are members at Palmetto Life Church in Columbia.
Marte Thomas
Semi-Virtual administrative assistant
office@Columbiametro.org
Marte Thomas serves CMBA churches as a semi-virtual assistant, supporting the overall work of the association through her passion for relationship-building and helping others to succeed. Marte has a "genuine desire to ensure people feel heard, valued, and cared for."
Marte is a Columbia native, former church staff member, and an active member of Village Church. She can be reached by email at office@columbiametro.org or by phone at 803.619.7110.
Julia Bell
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
JULiasbell@live.com
Julia Bell serves as the CMBA Communications Coordinator. She brings a knowledge of denominational work from time spent on staff in the communications area of the South Carolina Baptist Convention and from growing up the daughter of an associational director of missions. Julia’s passions include writing and getting to know people.
“One of my favorite parts of this role is talking with pastors and church members about how they are seeing God at work and then putting words to that story. It’s a privilege to share about so many exciting ministries and amazing stories that are happening in our churches all throughout the Midlands,” she says.
