I love the opportunity to serve and minister to the people of Centerpoint Community Church. Christ connects, sin separates. The ways of Christ build and restore relationship, and the ways of sin kill, steal, and destroy relationship. We inherently know that good relationships are our strength, joy and peace through life's circumstances. Jesus has come in love, with forgiveness, by grace, through faith, and in the power of His Holy Spirit to restore good relationships - God, marriage, family, church, work, community, nation, world.
My wife Shanna is my partner in ministry, marriage, and life. We are blessed by our daughters Emily and Allison, and our son Jonathan. I am a licensed school teacher, and taught public high school for many years in California. I've worked as a youth pastor and school teacher for over 20 years in California and New England. I grew up on our family's dairy farm in California. The Lord called me to seminary in 2003, and I graduated with a Masters in Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in 2008. My wife will also finish her Masters in Divinity from Gordon-Conwell in 2025.
