Grace and peace to you. I love Christ and His church and my life is devoted to serving both.  My story is simply this - I once was lost, but now I’m found. I once was blind, and now I’m learning to see. How? By receiving the grace of God through faith in Christ and by growing with other disciples in Christian community. Since I believe this grace is so amazing I want every person on earth to receive it.    

I became a Christian in 1981 and I’ve been in some form of pastoral ministry since 1984 serving as a student pastor, youth minister, campus minister, associate pastor, and senior pastor in churches in North Carolina, Texas and Kentucky.  
 
I was sent to serve as the Senior Pastor of Immanuel in June of 2007. I believe God is doing wonderful things through this ministry and I praise Him for allowing me to be a part of that good work.  

My sweet wife is Mary Beth (we married in 1986) and she is a devoted disciple of Christ, as well as being a  Clinical NICU Dietitian (R.D.; M. Ph.). We have two grown sons, Micah (wife - Holly) and Nathan (wife - Alli) and two precious granddaughters, two delightful grandsons (one of which is due to be born in June).

Education:    
BA:       New Mexico State University (History / Business Administration)
M.Div:   The Divinity School of Duke University
D.Min:   Asbury Theological Seminary - Residential Beeson Pastor program
Places Lived: My family moved to Kentucky in 1990 and since then we’ve lived in Louisville and Northern Kentucky. Previously I’ve been well traveled and oft moved--including long stops in Texas, California, Florida, New Mexico, Illinois, and North Carolina. 
Living Now: Crescent Springs, KY
Favorite Movies: Many faith-based films; It’s a Wonderful Life; The Princess Bride; The Shawshank Redemption, most Martial Arts films.
Favorite Bible Passages: Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:1-11; Colossians 1:15-20; Eph. 3:14-21
Favorite Quotes:  
- Small acts of love, can change the world.  -Mother Teresa
- All need to be saved.  All can be saved.   All can know themselves to be saved.  All can be saved to the uttermost.  - Traditional summary of Methodist teaching
- I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship and the whole world for my mission field. - John Wesley
- We’re gonna need a bigger boat.   - The Apostle Peter?; later in “Jaws”)
- You keep using that word... I don’t think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya
Favorite Books: The Bible; Sermons of John Wesley; Mere Christianity (Lewis); Dogmatics in Outline (Barth); The Cost of Discipleship, and Life Together (Bonhoeffer), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini); any book by Frederick Buechner, and any Calvin and Hobbes collection.

Hobbies: Singing; Hiking; Biking (motorcycles); Reading; Movies; Guitar; Martial Arts (Black Belt in TKD), above all - playing with our grandchildren.