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Pastor
Matt joined Southside at the beginning of 2025. His first pastorate, he comes with years of experience as a youth pastor, young adult pastor, worship leader, and a number of other leadership and service roles. He is currently working on a Doctor of Ministry through Truett Seminary at Baylor. He has been married to Allie for 14 years. They love living in their tiny house with their two-year-old son, Cash, and dachshunds, Rock and Bones. Matt loves preaching and teaching, worship, reading good books, good coffee, and exercise. Allie is a civil engineer and a versatile leader and servant in church ministries. Cash loves playing with the worship team’s instruments when no one is looking.
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Worship Leader
We are pleased to have Kent Houp as our Worship Leader. Bro. Kent comes to us with more than 2 decades of church leadership experience. He is a member of The Master's Men singing group of Silsbee, Texas. He originally studied marketing at UT Arlington before being called by the Lord into the music ministry. He served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam and served on the board of Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas.
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Youth Minister
Bro. Cody Dowden and his wife, Sara, come to us with several years exprerience in youth leadership from area churches. They were married in 2012 and have been serving here at Southside since 2021. Cody was born in Bryan, TX. and adopted by "the best parents anyone could ever ask for" in Nederland, TX. Cody gave his life to the Lord at 9 yrs. old and was called to the ministry in 2005. Cody loves to connect people to their ultimate purpose in our Lord and Savior, as we join together as the Church to bring the gospel to the nations.
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