Experience

Lifebridge Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Pastor

  • Jun 2022 - Present

• Teaching, Young Adults Pastor

  • Jul 2020 - Jun 2022



HarperCollins Publishers

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Book Author

  • 2018 - Present



The Alternative Ministries

• Teaching Pastor, Chief Communications Officer

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, sharing teaching duties and leading alongside Caleb Stanley and Austin Dennis, Rachel Dennis, and Lindsey Lezon. Preparation for each event, social media, reaching out to our love team, leading our volunteers in all aspects, touching base with our venue, praying over each event, establishing concentrated growth in involvement from attendees. As Chief Communications Officer, it is my responsibility to ensure that everyone is on the same page as well as making sure that we have new content to push on all platforms and our website. Responsible for clearing up all lines of communication from the leadership to the love team. Sermon preparation and band organization are critical in my role for each event our event is predicated on the fact that we are determined to awaken dreams, unite communities, and amplify hope under the name of Jesus as we gather together each month.



Hill City Church

• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pastor

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  Associate Pastor. Responsible for teaching and shepherding people. Daily responsibilities include, cleaning the church building, planning the week’s events such as, college ministry, youth ministry, and Sunday preparations. Planning center scheduling, and reaching out to our volunteers to ensure adequate service flow and help each week. Sermon preparation, blessed by humble leadership to allow me to preach 40 full length sermons. Meetings with individuals each week to discuss different things going on in their lives, personal contact and investment in the lives of those who are invested in the church. Right hand of our lead Pastor, Matt Slaughter. Responsible for being flexible and available with Matt’s schedule to do any and everything he needed in order to remain faithful to the people and message he had to ready each week. Talk through sermon series ideas and development of series plans. Set up the church each week for Sunday gatherings, women’s events, college and youth ministries. While I had the opportunity to step on the stage, that was only availed to me in the event that I exercised humility in sweeping floors daily. Thankful for every opportunity provided at Hill City Church. If you are in the Northwest Arkansas area and looking for a church, there is no better place or leadership than what you will find at Hill City.



Cool Pony

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Team Lead of Marketing and Advertising (Focus on Social Media)

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

  Responsible for the growth of Cool Pony Media brand. Trusted to grow and develop all of the brand and artist's social media accounts across multiple platforms. Myself along with a Co-Team Lead oversee artists and their use of media to help utilize their platforms to grow business and personal success. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Maintain contact with artists and label to monitor posts they make, create content to post, drive traffic to Cool Pony Media website and social media, develop strategies to draw consumer interest in becoming not only familiar with Cool Pony, but a fan of the label and artist's work. Learning and maintaining constant knowledge of trends, interests, and trajectory of popular culture to connect that culture with the Cool Pony Media brand and most effectively market/advertise the talents, intentions, and creativity of the Cool Pony product.



Activate Media, LLC

• Event Supervisor

  • Aug 2014 - Nov 2015

  Responsible for preparing sermons to speak to large audiences. Responsibilities as a speaker include both marketing and advertising of ticket sales, content production, sermon preparation, and lively delivery. Accompany CEO in ensuring that the audience has a great experience when attending the Activate Tour. Held responsible for making sure the schedule for the event ran smoothly and efficiently, make sure performers and speakers are in place and ready to perform, speak, be on hand on the set, be active in participating with audience members in question and answer segments as well as pictures, and bring as live of an experience as possible to a family friendly environment.Activate Media Group (Activate Media, LLC) is an emerging media and entertainment development company which brings the digital world to physical in empowering, encouraging, family-friendly experiences. Launched by Christian personality Ryan Wesley Smith in 2015, the company currently manages and develops Activate Tour, along with several pending digital media projects.



Wheaton Coalition

• Internship

  • Feb 2015 - Feb 2015

  Blessed to be given the opportunity to spend a weekend with a number of incredible speakers, authors, writers, bloggers, videographers, and leaders of Gospel centered intentions. Held at the Billy Graham Center of Evangelism in Wheaton (Chicago), Illinois. Learning from prominent authors, speakers, evangelists, and pastors on many different fronts, most notably: speech techniques, prep for writing blogs and books, and effective ways to use social media to bring attention to greater causes. Blessed to be given the opportunity to spend a weekend with a number of incredible speakers, authors, writers, bloggers, videographers, and leaders of Gospel centered intentions. Held at the Billy Graham Center of Evangelism in Wheaton (Chicago), Illinois. Learning from prominent authors, speakers, evangelists, and pastors on many different fronts, most notably: speech techniques, prep for writing blogs and books, and effective ways to use social media to bring attention to greater causes.



Think Eternity

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Public Speaker

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

  Public speaker about the power of social media, faith, and how to use it well. Responsible for marketing and advertising the event and driving people towards ticket sales on conference website, Ignite Live Conference, in Dallas, Texas. Hosted by Think Eternity and Matt Brown, Ignite Live gave me the opportunity to come out and refine my speaking strategies, skills, and develop a more eloquent style. Other responsibilities for the weekend included preparing a sermon that directly related to the target audience, primarily of students, and delivering a professional speaking experience while simultaenously connecting with a younger audience in a way that was both understandable and inviting to a relationship with Jesus.