The most important thing about me is that I am a sinner saved by grace through faith and this was not my own doing, it was the work of God (Ephesians 2:8).
My parents are both from West Virginia, but I was raised in Clarksville, Maryland.
I graduated from the University of Maryland (College Park, MD) wiith a degree in Secondary Social Studies Education and from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters in Divinity with Languages. After graduation I spent 19 years in ministry planting 3 churches in that time- 2 in Delaware and 1 in Virginia. While in Virginia, I volunteered with a medical missions organization called International Christian Resources and had an opportunity to travel across the globe with medical students doing medical clinics and sharing the love of Christ with those whom we served. One of these trips led to invitation to become adjunct faculty in the Department of Community and Global Health at Campbell University's Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lillington, NC starting in 2016. In 2017 I became the department's Administrative Director with a full-time faculty position. I lectured on topics such as "Empathy in the Examination Room" and "Conducting a Spiritual History."
While working at the University, I earned my Doctor of Mininistry Degree at Campbell's Divinity School in 2022. My paper was titled, "Providing Empathy Education During Volunteer Service Activities to Increase Empathy Scale Scores of Medical Students at a Christian University." Long-winded title I know, but I believe the research produced very important results. The students that I instructed not only increased their empathy scale scores, but they shared testimonies of how the experience changed the way that they approached their patients. One of these students, who is now a full-time physician, says that she regularly offers to pray with her patients.
From 2019-2020, I served as an Associate Pastor at Buies Creek First Baptist Church and, in April of 2020, I was called to help a struggling church in Angier and became interim pastor of Trinity Baptist Church preaching my first sermon there April 5, 2020. It was not long before I was asked to stay on as their permanent pastor and we changed the name of the church to Covenant Reformed Baptist Church to reflect its confessional roots and doctrinal beliefs. The church grew to the point that I was blessed to be able to step down from my position at the University and become CRBC's full-time pastor in 2022, a position I still hold today.
I am married to a beautiful and godly woman and have 3 great children, a wonderful daughter-in-law and a fantastic son-in-law. We also have a granddaughter and one on the way.
In addition we currently have two labrador retrievers and my wife has bred several litters of puppies in years past.
As days go by, I may tell my story- not that I would expect anyone to find it of much interest. Maybe my grandkids one day will read it after I am gone and find some sort of encouragement through it. I can only hope.