Education:    

Bachelor of Science in Bible and Pastoral Studies, Lancaster Bible College, Lancaster, PA, 2000

Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, S. Hamilton, MA 2006

Ministry Experience:  

Pastoral Internship: Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church, York, PA, 1999-2000

Director of Young Adult Ministries: Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Concord, NH, 2001-2003

Associate Pastor/Youth Ministries: Calvary Bible Church, Derry, NH, 2003-present  

Associate Pastor Youth Ministries

I grew up in a Christian home in northern Lancaster Country, PA.  My Dad’s side of the family has a long line of Christian heritage that I am very thankful for, and it was that Christian influence that ultimately led me to give my life to Christ as a young boy.  It was in the wide open spaces of Lancaster County and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where my love for the outdoors grew as I progressed towards becoming an Eagle Boy Scout.

My love for God began to flourish in the summer before my senior year of high school where I committed my life to God and dedicated my life to full-time Christian ministry as a vocation.  After high school, I headed off for ministry training at Lancaster Bible College .  It was here where I met my wife-to-be, Sarah, and we married in the summer of 2000.  

Chester, New Hampshire was Sarah’s hometown, and after spending a couple weeks in NH on vacations before and after we were married, I fell in love with the state as well: endless trails to be hiked and lakes/rivers to be paddled!  Little did we expect at that time that it was in God’s sovereign plan for Sarah to come back and teach at the same school she graduated from (Calvary Christian School), and for me to become an Associate Pastor here at CBC, her home church.  And little did I know that I would be serving under a man (Pastor John Talley) who I knew when I was a child, for my home church in Ephrata , PA was the same church that sent the Talley family out onto the mission field.  It has been fun to watch God fit all these pieces of my life together!  

Ministry Passion

My passion is the same as the Apostle John's as he writes in 3 John 4, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth." John was not referring to his biological children, but his spiritual children; those he had nurtured spiritually in the faith. In the same way, even though the teenagers that I minister to here at Calvary Bible Church are not my own, I have no greater joy than seeing those teens under my spiritual care walking in truth: increasing in their knowledge of God's Word and applying it to their lives more and more consistently everyday.