The short story: Soon to be co-pastor at The Roots Community Church in southwest Orlando.

The long story:

My life at 34 years old is in a much different place than I ever thought it would be.

My boyhood dream was to run camera for Monday Night Football, and I came close to fulfilling that dream through my degree in video production at Ohio University. The dream shifted because of Christ. I followed my girlfriend, now my wife, Tracy, to Birmingham, Alabama so she could attend graduate school. That is when I truly committed my life to Jesus, and was baptized at Mountaintop Community Church.

Tracy and I were married few months later, and after a couple of video production jobs, I found myself in the office of the Senior Pastor at Mountaintop, becoming the church’s first Media Director. That position lasted for six years, carrying through a period of rapid growth at Mountaintop, and in my own family, with the birth of my son, Jon, in 2003.  It also paved the way into a calling; from a life in media, to a life preaching the Word.

I left my job at Mountaintop to pursue a seminary degree full-time in January 2007. Since then, God has grown me in many different ways to prepare me for full-time pastoral ministry. I have had the privilege to preach in many different contexts to many different types of people. From Alabama to Africa, God has allowed me to preach His message of hope and salvation to anyone close enough to hear it.

My years at Mountaintop have instilled in me the priorities of sharing the Gospel clearly to unchurched people, and the importance of leading, teaching and discipling believers.