ABOUT OUR STAFF
Randall Beaty
In 1994, Pastor Randall and his family moved to Searcy and began their ministry. He not only serves as the Senior Pastor of SCN but has been the Chaplin of the Searcy Police Department for over 25 years.
His wife, Diana, retired, served the community for over 30 years as a geometry teachers at the Searcy High School.
Bryan & Allison, their children, graduated from SHS then attended and graduated from Southern Nazarene University in OKC. At present, Allison, their oldest, an ordained elder, is working on her doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Bryan, their youngest, also an ordained elder, graduated with a counseling degree and has an active business in counseling as well as works on staff at a Nazarene church in Topeka, KS. He married Marci (Green), who works for SNU and in 2023, they were blessed with their first child, Elena.
Mark & Ava Laidler
Pastor Ava, an ordained elder, and her husband, Mark, moved to Searcy in 1995 and helped with the children’s ministries at the church when she was not traveling. In 2004, she became the full time Children’s Pastor for the church.
In 2013, Pastor Ava and her husband felt led to begin a mission ministry in the community of Garner. Each week on Sundays, (The Kid’s Bible Club @ 4:00), and Thursdays, (Teen Fellowship on Thursdays @ 5:00), they, along with some lay people, feed those who attend a meal in the former Garner Church of the Nazarene building and then share a Bible Lesson and a time of worship.
In 2021, Mark felt the call into full time ministry and began his journey toward ordination. He shares the WORD weakly in an Adult Bible Study during the Sunday School hour. In 2022, the North Arkansas District leadership appointed Mark and Ava as copastors of the Garner Church of the Nazarene and reactivated the ministry in the Garner Community.
Together, Mark and Ava continue to serve the Searcy Church of the Nazarene in many different ways as well as oversee the ministry at the Garner Church of the Nazarene.