Experience

Benson Baptist Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Pastor

  • Jan 2020 - Present



CBF of North Carolina

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Campus Chaplain to UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and Raleigh Area Campuses

  • Jun 2016 - Jan 2020

  Triangle Area - NC State University, Meredith College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University• Provide regional counseling, administrative, marketing, ministerial, budgetary, advocacy, and campus event engagement coordination for students,• Work with other campus leadership to foster interdenominational and interfaith relationships for the betterment of the campus and community,• Networking with local partners to create regular opportunities for community immersion, co-curricular discernment, and service engagement,• Provide advisement to multiple teams of undergraduate student leaders,• Supervise a staff of graduate school enrolled interns across the region,• Provide advisement for state-wide initiatives including a Student Leadership Taskforce and the Leadership Executive Team it formed,• Provide project management for a multi-state Collegiate Retreat Planning Team,• Grant writing leadership to provide funding for programs and staff state-wide.

• Campus Minister to East Carolina University

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2016

  Coordinated campus engagement at East Carolina University through the establishment of a campus organization for students that focused on faith formation, service learning, leadership development, and community engagement.



Oakmont Baptist Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions

• Intentional Community Director and Minister to College Students

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Provided staff leadership through preaching, staff participation, program planning, counseling for members in a hospital setting, and administrative responsibilities in an 800-member setting,• Developed and directed a residential intentional service learning and spiritual growth community, providing advisement and administrative leadership for undergraduate and graduate student residents, • Alongside an intergenerational team, planned and facilitated weekly spiritual growth and leadership development opportunities for students and older young adults connected to the congregation, • Planned annual service learning and relational growth events, trips, and retreats,• Promoted from Collegiate Ministry Intern to Minister to College Students in July 2013.

• Intentional Community Director and Collegiate Ministry Intern

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2014

  Promoted to Minister of College Students in 2014.



Plymouth Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Minister to Youth

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2011

  • Alongside a team, provided event management, advisement, and counseling to teenagers grades 6-12 through regular gatherings, trips, retreats, socials events, and service engagement,• Provided regular leadership experiences and intergenerational connections for teenagers connected to the organization, • Coordinated teams of volunteers to aid in ministry leadership and event facilitation,• Worked with parents toward holistic student growth plans that encompassed both congregation and home life,• Provided leadership through regular preaching, program planning, staff participation, and membership engagement.



Baptist Chapel Baptist Church

• United States

• Minister to Youth

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2008



Bells Baptist Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions

• Minister to Youth

  • May 2005 - Aug 2006