I was raised in a reformedish Baptist church, by two wonderfully godly parents, who had me and my five younger siblings in church every time the doors were open.
Our household business was the local Christian school, where my father was a full-time teacher, and my mother taught whenever she wasn’t home schooling us.
My parents, though not perfect, modeled a Christ honoring marriage for us.
I am forever grateful to my father for a testimony of faithfulness to his God, his wife, his church, and his school as he led our family.
I am forever grateful to my mother for making the decision to forgo a lucrative career as a mathematician to raise six children, thus adorning the gospel.
So far, all six of my parents’ children love the Lord, along with the families of those who are married.
Raised in such environment, I took my faith and the effects of Christian community for granted, until college.
God brought me into jail ministry as a volunteer, where I taught and counseled inmates for over a decade, through several stints as a teacher, a year as a police officer, and a few years in an Air Force contracting gig, until he brought me a couple years ago into full time jail ministry as a chaplain.
The persistent drum beat of our ministry is connecting churches to ministry opportunities in the jail and inmates back out into churches where they can grow.
Almost a decade ago, God blessed me with my wonderful wife, Julie, and He has blessed us with four children so far.
While I remain forever grateful for my faithful Baptist heritage, I have moved theologically into the Reformed camp, where I have been influenced strongly by men like Douglas Wilson, Peter Leithart, Jim Jordan, Tim Bayly, and more recently I have been binging on Warhorn media and Chris Wiley.