I grew up in church, and was baptized at First Baptist Piedmont in 1995.
While in youth ministry, I found myself as the oldest youth in the 10th grade. With some encouragement from my youth minister (Craig Towery - currently at Sentinel), I started helping with the media ministry, leading small groups in children's ministry, teaching at VBS, and working as a sponsor for youth camp during my junior and senior years of high school. The summer before senior year, as a sponsor leading a small group and as the leader of the decision team, I felt the call to ministry. During a worship song in the Tabernacle at Falls Creek, time stood still, and I looked around, feeling a deep desire to lead people to experience the presence of God.
After college, I attended Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where I was a TA, worked at the library, and graduated with my M.Div in 2017. During seminary and afterwards, I volunteered and was on staff at churches in the Kansas City area.
In 2019, we moved back to Oklahoma for a full-time pastorate. In 2021, I took a full-time position at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva. We moved to Alva, and I served several smaller rural churches in media/worship, pulpit supply, and pastoral care. Most recently, I was at Carmen Christian Church.
We currently live in Piedmont, OK, moving after I accepted a position at Southern Nazarene University.
I am open to Bivocational and interim/transitional ministry in the Oklahoma City area, or in helping to develop certain ministries that your church is able to maintain.
2014 - BA Mass Communication, major in Public Relations, minor in Business
University of Central Oklahoma
2017 - Master of Divinity
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
License – First Baptist Piedmont, OK, August 2018
Ordination – First Baptist Waynoka, OK, May 2021