Mitzi Mathenia,
Associate Director of Music Ministries

Mitzi and her husband Randy met in college – accompanying and directing the University Singers at Memphis State University – and they have been accompanying and directing ever since!

Since coming to Northside in 1989, Mitzi has not only had the privilege of playing the organ/piano/keyboard to help lead in worship, she has also had the opportunity to use her music to do all the things she told God she would never do (work with teenagers, play in a large church, arrange music, direct handbells) – which, of course, have turned out to be the very things she loves the most about her work here!

She is also on staff at Lambuth University as the accompanist for their University Choir. She and Randy have four sons ranging in age from 21 to 13. Her greatest joys are homeschooling her boys and seeing the countless ways God lets her participate in people’s lives with her piano playing. Her greatest passion is to worship God Almighty. And her greatest desire is to live in such a way that – as Bach signed his music, “Soli Deo Gloria” – people would be able to say, to God alone be the glory. (She’s got a ways to go on that one, but she’s working on it!)

“When you sign up to follow God wherever He wants you to go, you think “spiders and snakes in Africa” – and instead He has allowed us to serve in this amazing church, where we get to watch people’s lives being touched and changed, we get to be a part of a place where the Spirit is moving constantly, and we get to serve Him by doing the very things we love the most – isn’t God incredible?!”