…I don’t really believe in resumes or applying for jobs.  I believe God prepares a specific place of service for each and every person.  He then takes that opportunity and puts it at our feet.  When God wants you to do something, He comes and gets you.  In other words, we see where God is already at work, and then we get on board with His plans. 

Life Verses

Romans 10:14-15

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?  And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?  And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?  And how can they preach unless they are sent?  As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’”

I Timothy 4:12-15

“Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.   Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.   Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.   Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

Favorite Verse

Hebrews 8:12

“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

Favorite Books of the Bible

Lamentations

Despite our sins, God’s compassion never fails. 

Ecclesiastes

When Life is lived God’s way, everything has meaning and fulfillment.

My Priorities as a Pastor

1. Relationship with God
2. Relationship with my wife and children (1 Timothy 3:5)
3. Key leaders and staff in the church (Ephesians 4:11-13)
4. The congregation
5. People of the community that I have a relationship with and are lost
6. People of the community that I do not know
7. People outside the community

Education

July, 2004- present                                                                Ashland Theological Seminary

M.A. in Clinical Pastoral Counseling. 

October 2000- October 2002                                                         Circleville Bible College

Bachelor’s Degree in Leadership and Ministry

October 1995 – June 1998                                          Community College of the Air Force

Associates of applied Science in Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology