Josh & Katrina Quigley
Camp counselors in 1996. Church planters and entrepreneurs ever since.
We’re Joshua and Katrina Quigley, and our story began in 1996 at Oakhill Campgrounds in Angola, Indiana. We were both camp counselors—and somewhere between camp life and getting to know each other, we found our person.
While dating, we attended Christian Training Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1997, we graduated, got married, and moved to Bay City, Michigan, to begin full-time ministry. It was a big year! We served there until 2001, when we sensed God calling us to Metro Atlanta, Georgia.
Our time in Atlanta opened the door to mentorship in ministry, business, and opportunities we hadn’t imagined. We began discovering that God could use our gifts in more ways—and more places—than we expected.
In 2005, we moved to the Cape Coral and Fort Myers area of Florida to return to full-time ministry. We served there until 2008, when the economic downturn turned our lives upside down. After losing everything, we returned to the private sector and moved back to Metro Atlanta. It wasn’t the chapter we would have written, but it became a turning point as we allowed the Holy Spirit to help us put the pieces back together.
During that season, we began asking honest questions: What is the church meant to be? Why hadn’t the model we knew become the healthy, life-changing community we longed for? And what might happen if we let the Holy Spirit interrupt the way we’d always done things?
We didn’t have all the answers, but we kept seeking, listening, and taking the next step. Along the way, we saw the Lord restore our lives, rebuild our income, open new doors, and help us create companies. We began to understand that both church planting and entrepreneurship were part of our calling.
Education has also been part of our journey. Katrina earned a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Creation and Product Design from Southern Polytechnic, bringing her creativity and love of design into the mix. In 2012, Josh graduated with a master’s degree in Leadership and a Doctorate of Ministry.
Over time, those experiences—ministry, business, education, loss, restoration, and plenty of learning as we went—helped shape the vision for Ellijay City Church. We wanted to help build a healthy church community where faith becomes part of everyday life, relationships are real, and people have room to grow.
That’s the heart behind Ellijay City Church, and it’s still our heart today. We’re grateful for the journey, excited about what God is doing, and always up for seeing where He leads next.
Mark & Jessica Luchauer
Lovers of God, music, family and friendship.
Mark and Jessie are lovers of God. They have 3 kids, Leif, Cru, and Selah, and have roots in Michigan, Indiana, Florida, and Georgia. They both have a passion for music, family, friendships, and seeing people reach their full potential. Mark enjoys working on Have Fun Teaching, spending time with his family, researching truth, calling out deception, relaxing on the couch with some popcorn, and starting businesses with Josh. Jessie enjoys coming alongside others to help fulfill their dreams and visions, worshipping the Lord, and enjoying the beauty of God’s creation. They are blessed to be a part of Ellijay City Church!
Wyly & Candy Gammon
Three decades of ministry to children, from Georgia to Colombia to Honduras.
Wyly and Candace Gammon first established a children’s ministry in Roswell, Georgia, near Atlanta, in 1993. Over the next four years, they established a children’s church and an evangelistic program, STREETREACH, in partnership with Pastor Mirek Hufton and World Harvest Church.
From 1998 to 2003, they lived in Medellín, Colombia, South America, with their two sons. There, they built a children’s ministry that includes a children’s church, a ministry to street children called The Refuge, and a training center to equip those who minister to children. Hundreds of children’s ministries have been started through the work in Medellín since 1998.
Their primary focus is children; however, their ministry has broadened to include feeding programs, food production, community transformation projects, microenterprise, education, and Bible schools. Their feeding programs provide 112,800 nutritious meals to hungry children each year. They have also established two private Christian schools serving 700 at-risk children.
From 2006 to 2019, they lived and worked in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
While continuing to serve as missionaries with Go To Nations and as Regional Directors for Latin America, they followed the Lord’s leading to settle in Ellijay, Georgia, and serve as leaders in a church plant, Ellijay City Church!
