Marietta Combs serves as New Hope's Minister of Music. Marietta directs the adult choir, praise team, and children's choir. She graduated from West Texas State University in 1989 with a Bachelors of Music Education. Marietta taught 20 years in Texas: 9 years of Elementary music in Stratford, Texas and 11 years middle school and high school choir in EL Campo, Texas. Marietta moved to Oklahoma in the summer of 2010 and is currently working for the Oklahoma City Public Schools teaching elementary music. Marietta was the church choir Director at the First Christian Church in both Stratford and EL Campo.
Marietta lives in Oklahoma City with her husband and is the proud parent of five children and one grandchild.