I was born and raised in a small town called Prattville, AL, just north of Montgomery. I had a fairly typical Southern upbringing. My family was generally active in the local Southern Baptist church and I attended public school. My father was a shift-working paper mill employee. I started playing soccer when I was about 5 and kept with the sport through high school and played with some rec-league teams into adulthood.
I confessed faith and was baptized at age 8. I still remember walking the aisle to make my “public declaration” even though the pastor had already been to our home to pray with me days before. My faith really didn’t take hold until I was almost finished with college. Before that, you wouldn’t have been able to tell I had any real interest in Christ at all.
After my conversion, I moved out of a fraternity house and returned to live with my parents. I began going to church with them again, but they’d moved to a different SBC church. There, I was introduced to expository preaching and gradually grew to accept the Reformed faith. Pretty soon, I began to sense a call to the ministry.
I was married and we moved to Los Angeles, CA to attend The Master’s Seminary on the day after our one-year anniversary. It didn’t take long before our money ran out and we returned home. That felt like a tremendous failure for a long time. While I nursed my wounds and reconsidered my call, I gained employment at a local bank and gradually worked up the ranks. We also transitioned from the SBC to a local Presbyterian church in the PCA denomination. There, I was further discipled in the Reformed Faith.
In 2015, nearly 14 years later, I returned to pursue seminary education at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. I finished in 2019 and was ordained in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian denomination. After a rough year of pastoral ministry, the Lord moved us to Southwest Mississippi and back to the PCA where we continue to serve.
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