About Campus Pastor Molly Simpson

Molly joined the pastoral staff at Resurrection in 2005 but she is no stranger to this community.  Molly grew up in the area, attending Blue Valley schools before heading to Texas to attend college at Baylor University.  Her family became members of Resurrection during her high school years, and she participated in student ministry.  In fact, her youth pastor is now her boss! 
 
Molly is a graduate of the Honors Program at Baylor University with a BA in Biology (2002), and diverted from medical school to enter seminary at Perkins School of Theology at SMU (MDiv 2006).  There is a pretty good story about that change in direction, feel free to ask her sometime.  She married Ben (in a ceremony at Resurrection) in 2003, and they loved living in Dallas through the seminary years.  While in school, Molly was the Community Life Coordinator at Perkins and was involved in the student ministry at Lovers Lane UMC while supporting her husband's pastoral role at First Baptist Church in Allen, Texas.  Following a return to the Kansas City area, Molly joined the staff at Resurrection in Congregational Care for a few short months before diving into the joyful work of starting the new faith community that has become Resurrection West.  Molly was ordained in 2009, and welcomed the delight of her life, daughter Joy, that same year. 
 
Molly and Ben love the church, and they are both honored and blessed to serve as leaders.  You will often find Ben hanging out with teenagers, teaching classes for students and adults, and more recently, tearing up the basketball court with the group of guys who meet each week for pickup games.  Beyond her work as pastor, Molly enjoys painting, taking photographs, listening to good music, buying pretty shoes on sale, and reading in coffee shops... but has gladly traded most of that in for chasing Joy up and down the hallway and reading board books repeatedly.    
 
Molly wouldn't want anyone to miss that she truly believes that the love of Jesus Christ has the power to change the world in ways beyond our best dreams.  It has irreparably impacted her, and it is the reason she has committed her life to minstry.