Our Story

I married my high school sweetheart Kemberly in 1995 while still a Bible College student, working as the children's / associate pastor of the church where I was raised in Starke, FL.


Shortly after marriage, Kem and I began attending The Family Church in Gainesville, FL. I joined the church staff in 1998 serving as youth / college pastor for 2 years. Our first 2 children, Josiah and Sarah, were born during this season. In 2000 I left my staff position to join a new non-profit organization created by a friend of mine, serving at-risk youth and high school dropouts.

In 2002, The Family Church invited me to rejoin the staff, this time overseeing welcome ministries, the church membership process, and connecting church members to ministry opportunities. Our 3rd child, Hannah, was born during this time.

Then in 2003, everything changed when I took the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Class. This 15-week experience was a game-changer in my discipleship and ministry focus. As we often say, "It will ruin you for the ordinary." I started coordinating Perspectives Classes and developed a passion for every tribe, tongue, people and nation (Rev. 7:9) to be given the opportunity to bring glory to God.

Kem and me together in India

As a direct result, in 2005 the new Sr. Pastor of The Family Church invited me to take the role of Missions Pastor, overseeing our newly restructured, rapidly growing missions ministry. What a season! During this time I helped create training materials for the multiple missions teams we sent each year, and facilitated the development of team-based partnerships with missions organizations in 8 countries.

After almost 6 years of serving in this role, God made it clear that He desired for me to step out in a new ministry direction. After a season of prayer, with multiple confirmations of God's will for our family, I joined the regional office of Frontier Ventures (known as US Center for World Mission at that time) that was forming in Gainesville.

After serving FV for 2 years in various regional mobilization efforts and national project management roles, I was asked to take the lead role in a partnership FV had newly formed with Converge, focused entirely on mission agencies and the missions potential found in the global diaspora. This project, now known as NextMove, was my primary ministry focus with FV from 2015 - 2020. Through my involvement in NextMove, I built relationships with dozens of mission agency and network leaders globally.

Because of my experience with NextMove, in 2018 I was also asked to join FV's Ralph D. Winter Launch Lab, serving as the Design Program Director for our t.co.lab projects. This basically means that, as new ideas were birthed out of our Launch Lab programs, my job was to help shepherd those ideas into prototype projects.

In 2019 I began sensing the Lord's leading to explore some work in the business consulting arena. From 2020-2023 I served with the team at Resolute Management, a local business growth consulting firm, and served on the board of Florida Leadership Center, a nonprofit founded by Resolute Management which is devoted to cultivating faith-based leadership and discipleship in our community and beyond. In 2023 I made the decision to begin working as an independent Work Optimization Consultant, helping companies to (as my tagline in my email signature states it!) "move your work forward."

About this time, after 24 years of life and ministry at The Family Church, God led our family to Aletheia Church, where we have enjoyed serving alongside and building relationships with many college students and young professionals.

Because of my growing passion and experience in helping businesses and ministries grow in their organizational health, in 2021 FV invited me to join our Operations Team in the role of Business Transition Lead. As FV was in a season of redefining and purposefully seeking to grow into a new "preferred future," my role was to help our ministries navigate through the change process and move together into our newly clarified vision with as much health as possible.

Now that FV has grown in our clarity for how to best pursue our Mission, the focus has shifted to "Process Optimization." Our ongoing goal is to help FV grow in our organizational health and operational capacity, to achieve our Mission of "nurturing new ways for least reached peoples to experience fullness of life in Christ." Process Optimization in our FV context means building the infrastructures that FV needs to launch new ministry initiatives via multiple global hubs and networks.

During all of this time we have raised and homeschooled our kids, moved house 4 times, made friends, lost loved ones, laughed and cried, and lived life in both wonderful and woeful ways beyond the telling in a format such as this. Life is good. We are blessed, and grateful to serve and give our lives for the Kingdom!