Growing up, I spent time in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Pennsylvania. I had a wonderful experience attending and graduating from Delaware County Christian School. I went on to study sociology at Baylor University in Central Texas before receiving a master of divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School outside of Chicago. In 2010, I returned to the area, and I’ve had the joy of serving on staff at Proclamation in some capacity ever since. I was ordained in January of 2016 and currently serve as an Associate Pastor in the church.

I am married to the love of my life, Rachel. We have four young children: Lydia, Micah, James, and Eden. In the summer of 2021, I was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer that required a radical nephrectomy. The Lord worked powerfully through this trial to draw our family closer together, and most importantly closer to him. Today, I am -- by God's grace -- cancer-free! And yet, we are daily trusting him to give us everything that we need for life and for godliness. We pray that he will continue to use all things – the good things and the really hard things – for our good, and his eternal glory.

One of my favorite passages from the Bible comes from 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10. “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.”