By Hannah Curran, Editor
TRUSSVILLE — The 2021 Trussville Tribune’s Person of the Year is Faith Community Fellowship’s Executive Pastor, Mike Ennis.
Each year, The Trussville Tribune names one outstanding person to take the title of Person of the Year. The person inspires others and embodies what was important about the year.
Tribune Publisher Scott Buttram said every community needs people like Mike Ennis who give freely of their time and talent to support others.
“Like so many people, the first time I met Mike he was serving the community,” Buttram said. “I don’t know very many people who spend the time serving others the way he does. I think he’s very deserving of the Tribune Person of the Year.”
Through Faith Community Fellowship and Springville Area Rotary Satellite Club Chair, Ennis’s contribution to the community has impacted many people and earns Ennis Trussville Tribune’s Person of the Year award.
“I met Mike when I was 14-years-old, and he was my youth pastor,” Senior Pastor Steve McCarty said. “I really don’t think Faith Community Fellowship would be in Trussville if it weren’t for Mike. He had a great impact on me.”
Ennis is Springville’s Faith Community Fellowship campus pastor; he’s also involved in the Trussville Chamber of Commerce and the Trussville Rotary Club.
“He’s everywhere,” McCarty said. “I mean, he is just everywhere all the time. Helping anyone that he can, that’s just his nature.”
Throughout the years, Ennis has found ways to improve the community. He works closely with Restoration Academy in Fairfield and Heritage Independent School in Springville. He’s led teams for each school and serves on the board for Heritage Independent School.
“He serves on several boards of several different civic groups as well as ministries,” McCarty said. “He provides leadership in a lot of different ways to a lot of different groups.”
He served as the associate pastor for many years before becoming the executive director of a ministry called Convoy of Hope, the largest relief organization in the United States.
“Convoy of Hope goes everywhere, anytime there is a natural disaster, they show up with semis filled with food,” McCarty said. “Mike really spearheaded that, getting off the ground. So he served as their executive director for a long, long time.”
Ennis then went on to be the executive director of the largest home treatment facility for sex traffic girls in the nation. While also leading that facility McCarty asked Ennis to leadership seminars at Faith Community Fellowship. McCarty said he told Ennis six years ago that he wanted him back, helping him, and Ennis came back and has been at Faith Community Fellowship ever since.
“His role has always been in helping others, whether it’s community development, crisis relief from natural disasters, or in the example from the Ministry lead in Atlanta.”
McCarty said that Ennis starts every conversation with a “yes.”
“Whatever you’re going to ask him, he’s gonna say yes to that,” McCarty said. “He’ll tell you, I may not know how to do it. I may not be able to do it. But the answer is yes. And we’ll find a way together. So he starts every conversation with a yes.”