Elders
Paul Brantley
Elder
Paul Brantley
Paul Brantley was born in Pensacola, Florida. He and his wife, Phyllis, have three daughters and ten grandchildren. Paul's father, Hairston Brantley, retired from the eldership of the Bellview congregation in 1995. Paul graduated from Pensacola Junior College with an A.S. degree in business management and retired after 33 years with Monsanto Chemical Company. Paul has taught an adult Bible class for many years. In 1991, he was appointed an elder of the Bellview Church of Christ. Paul has done mission work in Latvia and Russia. Since 1993, he has made yearly mission trips to Murmansk, Russia.
Bill Busch
Elder
Bill Busch
In January 2008, Bill Busch was appointed a deacon and in November 2018, Bill was appointed as an elder.
Michael Hatcher
Elder
Michael Hatcher
Michael Hatcher was born in Pensacola, Florida, the son of a Gospel preacher. He is married to Karen (Savage) and they have two sons. He has done local work in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, and is presently working with the Bellview Church of Christ in Pensacola, Florida. In 2013, he was appointed an elder of the Bellview Church of Christ. He has spoken on several lectureships, Gospel meetings and to youth groups, and has done radio and television work. He also taught in Texomaland School of Biblical Studies in Denison, Texas, and was the educational director at State Street Church of Christ in Bristol, Virginia.
Michael directed the North Texas Lectureship and currently is director of the Bellview Lectures. He has written articles for several brotherhood publications and a weekly newspaper (from 1987-1994). He was the associate editor of the Shield Of Faith and now is editor of Defender, the Beacon, and the Bellview Lectures book. He is co-author of a book, Hatcher/Schweitzer Exchange, an exchange of letters with a Lutheran minister on the subject of Total Hereditary Depravity and other subjects, and a debate on the subject of instrumental music in worship with Baptist, Bob L. Ross.
Preacher
Tim Cozad
Preacher
Tim Cozad
Tim Cozad began work with the Bellview congregation October 1, 2023. Tim is well-known to the congregation at Bellview as he grew up in Pensacola, and his father (Harold Cozad) was a former faithful elder of this church. Tim served in the U.S. Air Force for four years. He began preaching part-time in 2000. After graduation from the Memphis School of Preaching in 2003, he did local work with the Cheyenne, Wyoming, congregation. He decided to move back to Pensacola to help take care of his father. During this time, he worked with the Eastgate Church of Christ. Because of their liberal stand, he and his father left that congregation and placed membership with the Bellview congregation. After brother Harold Cozad passed from this life, Tim moved back to the Denver, Colorado, area. While there he attended the Buckley Church of Christ where he did some preaching and teaching while working in the secular field. Additionally, he has spoken on various lectureships through the years including the Bellview lectures.