I grew up in Hazleton, IN and graduated high school from Princeton in 1981. After high school, I attended Indiana University-Bloomington, and graduated in 1986 (B.S. Accounting). With the accounting degree, I entered the business world and worked as a plant accountant for Tyson Foods before making the transition into plant management. While working at Tyson Foods, I eventually became a plant manager (Vicksburg, MS). Later, I changed company’s and moved to Mt. Pleasant, TX where I worked for Pilgrim’s Pride as a plant manager of one of the country’s largest chicken further processing facilities.  

 

However, in February 2007, God called me away from the chicken business. Shortly after being saved in 2001, I could feel my interest in plant management waning and my desire to serve Jesus tremendously increasing. Thus, I surrendered to serve Christ and accepted a position as youth pastor. Although the position was a bi-vocational role, it opened the door for full-time ministry in 2009. Upon completely leaving the secular plant management position, I yearned for more formal training of the Word, and entered seminary at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, TX where I received a Master of Divinity with concentrations in Pastoral Leadership and Biblical Languages.