Segue Ministries is led by Executive Director and President, Reverend Thomas M. McMahan. As an ordained minister, Pastor McMahan has served on staff in two growing churches that have now become mega-churches. In 1980, he and his wife Linda left a highly successful retail management career to re-open a closed church in a mid-sized city. While there the church experienced rapid growth. Three building programs and 18 years later he accepted the pulpit of a church that is over 100 years and is a historic pulpit within his denomination..Now, after serving that congregation for 17 years, Pastor McMahan has transitioned the pulpit and now leads Segue Ministries.
You can sense the Heart of Segue Ministries by reading the following:
Segue Ministries Vision:
Advancing the Kingdom of God by training and utilizing highly skilled transitional ministers to assist the local church during a pulpit vacancy, and to build healthy ministers as they prepare for new ministry assignments.
Segue Ministries Mission:
To assist churches, organizations, and Clergy in transition to end well and start strong.
Segue Ministries Active Beliefs:
- Tomorrow can be better
- Today is reality, tomorrow must be relevant
- Every decision should be made in the context of both today and tomorrow.
- A Spirit-led plan is already inside God’s people, waiting to be discovered and released.
- We have in our possession everything we need to begin our future
- The systems we use and teach must inspire rather than prescribe.
- We will try new things and learn from them
- We rightfully challenge what gets in the way
- We accomplish what we hold ourselves accountable for.
- We are creating the future, every day, whether we do so consciously or not.
Segue Ministries Values:
Principal Value:
Tomorrow can be better
Statement of Core Values:
The Church
A healthy local church is always God’s plan for advancing His Kingdom
The Called
A healthy minister, strategically assigned, is God’s means to advance the local church
The Culture
A healthy church culture will continually keep the best while creating the new
The Course
A healthy course (plan) is God-given and filled with passion, mission, vision, and correction
Segue Ministries is a 501C3 tax-exempt Texas Corporation and is an integrated auxiliary with the North Texas District Assemblies of God. Board members serving include Reverend Richard Dubose, Maypearl, Texas, and Reverend William L. Jordan Jr., Colorado Springs, CO.