Bill Meaige
Senior Minister



Bill's Core Responsibilities . . .

• Publicly he is an easy going guy who privately takes everything seriously. 
• He is an intense Ohio State Fan who loves to watch the Buckeye Football Team.(Played ball with Archie Griffin years ago). 
• He has been on a perpetual diet for the last 20 years.  Although the restrictions come and go he rarely goes through a period of life where he just eats all he wants anytime he wants.  Thus he has three sets of clothes hanging in his closet for three different seasons of life.
• Bill loves to relax on Sunday Nights with a Diet Pepsi, some Chips, a White Chocolate Reese Cup  and the Discovery Channel.  After spending all day with Christians he jokingly says “he needs to watch something kill something.”
• He has mellowed in his competitiveness over the years.  While he used to have to win, be the best, come in first place. He now gets his joy in the company and not the competition.

• They describe him as loyal, kind, soft spoken, sweet, genuine, caring, and easy to talk to.
• He will be your biggest supporter and loudest cheerleader.  

• Bill is one of six children, born and raised in Columbus. Ohio.  He loves his family and is known to call his mother a minimum of five times per week.  He will drop anything to sneak in a visit with his granddaughter Grace.  Finds a deep sense of fulfillment in having family around.  Doesn’t have to be doing anything special when family is involved - just being together brings a deep sense of satisfaction to him. 
• He has three daughters all Married.   Courtney and Devon Maestri.  Whitney and Nate Hutcheson,  Alison and Ryan Morrow (Granddaughter Grace)  and a son Ben who is single.
• Bill and his wife Tami enjoy historical vacations (Planned by his wife) and relaxing vacations (Planned by Bill).

• Bill loves practical jokes (Ask him about Dog Jaw) sometime.  And he loves to joke around with his Golfing Buddies Tom Shelton, Pat Matheny, Chuck Morehead and Sam Dunn.  The laughter is more important than the golf match to him.
• He loves his three little pups Sadie, Snoop Dog – E – Dog, and Sweet P.  As king of their world he desires to make their lives as happy as he possibly can.

• Cannot understand how anyone could not LOVE White Castle Hamburgers
• People who sit at a red light with their turn signal blinking and don’t turn right when traffic is clear.
• People who have 30 items in a 15 items or less line.
• People who leave during the invitation to get out ahead of everyone.  God is worthy of an extra five – especially when someone around you may be contemplating salvation!

To watch North Terrace continue to grow and make an even  bigger impact in this community.

He would be a school teacher.  Working with people and leaving them better than when he found them makes his engine rev. 

While he doesn’t like to compromise his duties here at North Terrace with outside speaking engagements he usually does several per year.  One of the highlights of his speaking engagements was to speak at his twin daughters Baccalaureate at Kentucky Christian University.

Bill graduated from Great Lakes Bible College and has participated in the Masters Program at Kentucky Christian University and the Beeson Institute sponsored by Asbury Theological Seminary.

This is Bills first preaching ministry.  He came to North Terrace 24 years ago from a successful youth Ministry position at Greenwood Christian Church in Canton Ohio.

He loves to cultivate the wall flowers of the church (like himself) and convince them to allow God to help them blossom into something they never dreamed they could be.

It’s desire to grow and his solid relationship with the elders.  He is not interested in being at a church that wants to remain status quo. The church has grown from an average of 140 to a peak average of 850 in 2005.

• He loves to go golfing.  Golf ball hunting.  For walks with his wife.  And tries to fix at least one thing around the house on his day off that needs attention.
• As mentioned before he enjoys the Ohio State Football Team with his buddy and avid fan Tom Black.