Pastor's Profile

I received Jesus as my personal Savior at age 15. Many years prior to this, I felt the Lord's hand upon my life. I have always felt the Lord had a special ministry for me, but I did not think I was capable of what God was calling me to do.

In addition, my wife has always been a support to me and has worked with me side by side in many church ministries throughout the years. Thus, after much prayer and seeking the Lord's will for our lives, we made a public surrender to the Gospel Ministry in August of 1988. Therefore, after being led of God to seek higher education, I enrolled in Florida Baptist Theological College in the Spring of 1989. Since this time God has blessed our family in many, many ways.

During my years as a student in Graceville, God called me to Pastor Haleburg Baptist Church. We had a fruitful ministry there and continue to keep in contact with much of the membership. Yet, God led us from Haleburg in January, 1994 to pursue a Master of Divinity degree at Beeson Divinity School. Therefore, we moved to the Birmingham area.

As a student at Beeson, God called me to Pastor Community Baptist Church in Maylene, Alabama in September, 1996. God has accomplished great things through our ministry at Community Baptist. We have been able to formulate and adopt a Constitution and By-laws, establish and institute a deacon ministry, design and complete a 5278 square feet educational/fellowship building, renovate the Worship Center and Youth House, pave our parking area, double our Sunday School and Worship attendance, and baptize about 30 new believers in Christ.

Once again, we felt the Lord directing a change in our ministry. After much prayer and seeking His will, we felt led to further our education. Therefore, we made application and were accepted into the Ph.D. program at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. We began our studies in the Fall of 2004. Our area of concentration is Old Testament Studies.

As we continue to be faithful to the Lord, He continues to be faithful to us. Our ministry is a shared ministry in the sense that God has called my wife to be a "helpmate" and a support to her husband. Without this support, my ministry would be in vain. Therefore, the goal of our ministry is to be exactly where God want us to be, when He wants us to be there, to be obedient to His Word, to trust Him to open all the right doors, and to give us the wisdom and the courage to step through those doors.