Dating and Marriage

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and came to know Christ personally during a kids summer program. However, I did not know what following Christ meant until my family later moved to Georgia and I got plugged into a healthy and growing church. During my undergraduate business school studies I began serving in a new ministry venture our church had started and shortly after, felt God’s call into full-time ministry.

My wife, Jessica, and I got to know each other through serving together in our church’s band and college ministry, and we have been married since 2012. We moved to Fort Worth a week after our wedding so that I could attend seminary and Jessica could finish her dietetics degree as a Horned Frog. I graduated from Southwestern Seminary in 2015 and am thrilled to be on the team at Christ Chapel!

Significant involvement in several ministries over the years has taught me that, every time I fully rely on God, He gives me what I need when I need it. God can make something pretty spectacular when we offer Him our lives – broken and imperfect as they may be! Romans 12:1.

I enjoy spending time with family; namely our son, Jak, whom we welcomed into our world the spring of 2017 and daughter, Abbie, who arrived three years later! I also enjoy running (primarily when it’s a sunny 70-degree day!), and like to eat and cook good food (which is the real reason I run). You can usually find me somewhere between Central Market and any of the amazing Fort Worth eateries. Texas wouldn’t feel like home without the welcoming people of Christ Chapel, and especially the friendships we’ve made through involvement in community here.

I am looking forward to God continuing to use our church for His glory in this community!

I grew up in a family that occasionally went to church. But, I didn’t embrace what was taught there. In fact, by the time I entered college, I was a self-proclaimed atheist. I claimed that I didn’t even believe in God. I did, however, live in such a way that proved that I believed in other things to make me happy: popularity, girls, partying… I even got into drugs.

But eventually I learned that the things I was trusting in were unable to satisfy me. In fact, some these things threatened my life.  And it was during a life-threatening experience on drugs that I realized that I was living my life in rebellion against a holy God – the very God that created me. God made it clear to me that I needed Christ to save me from my sins. So I asked Him to save me.  He immediately came into my life and began transforming my heart. As my relationship with Christ has deepened, I have experienced such an amazing love in Him that I have an entirely new reason to live. Through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, my sins are forgiven and I have been able to enjoy a relationship with my Creator.

I began visiting different churches my junior year at TCU. When Ted knelt to do the pastoral prayer, I was drawn to his humility. The deciding factor was the excellent biblical preaching. If memory serves me (though it usually doesn’t), they were preaching through every verse of Romans at the time.

I married Brandi in 2003 (second best decision my life)! We have three kids. We adopted our first two boys: Lincoln and Charlie, and then God surprised us with our first pregnancy. We have a little girl, Lucy Joy!