Staff Team
Ashley Chesnut Local Disciple-Making Ministry Assistant
What is your favorite part of your job?
Having the opportunity to help equip others to be disciple-makers!
How & when did you first come to Brook Hills?
I moved to Birmingham to attend Beeson Divinity School in the fall of 2008 and started attending Brook Hills that semester. I started coaching female college small group leaders and led a college freshman girls’ small group at the church, interned with the college ministry, and started working at the church in March of 2011.
Where are you from?
Tifton, GA
Who is in your family?
My parents are Penny and Charles Chesnut, and I have a younger brother named T.J.
Please provide a short testimony about your relationship with Christ?
I grew up in college ministry and had the incredible opportunity to learn about God at an early age, but it took me several years to distinguish knowing about God from knowing Him personally as my Lord and Savior. While in bed one night, I pictured Jesus dying on the cross, and when I thought about how sinless and perfect He is and how sinful I am, I knew that I did not deserve for Him to take my punishment for the sins I have committed against God. However, He chose to demonstrate incredible grace by dying on the cross, and He lives today! When faced with such overwhelming good news, I repented of my sin and trusted in Jesus as my Savior and Lord knowing that this relationship is one that lasts for eternity and that He alone deserves my wholehearted adoration and service.
What’s your favorite Bible verse?
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Isaiah 26:3-4
What was the best concert you’ve ever been to?
Michael Buble
What is the best place you have ever visited?
Prague, Czech Republic
"I recommend…"
The book The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman and any books written by Elisabeth Elliot.
These are a few of my favorite things….
Chai tea lattes, Burt’s Bees chapstick, Macs, White Christmas, Sharpie pens, sticky notes, spending time with my family and with the girls in my small group
What silly trick can you do that most people can’t?
I can look at a white leghorn hen and tell you how many eggs it has laid in the past 20-30 weeks.