TVC Responsibilities:
I am an elder, pastor, and Executive team member, providing oversight of our Discipleship Ministries (Next Gen and Adults).
When and how did the Lord save you?
The Lord saved me at a young age, around 7 years old. My family was involved in and around the church for as long as I can remember. The people of God became a place of belonging and a second home throughout middle to high school. As much as I served and grew, a significant turning point in my understanding of Jesus took place in a Bible study during my freshman year of college. For all the rededications, aisles I walked, and prayers I prayed as a teen, the truth of God’s sovereignty in my life brought tears of gratitude and humility to my heart that I had not known before. His mercy toward me when I was dead in my sin has forever changed me.
When did you come to TVC and what brought you here?
I came to The Village Church around 2008. I was among many young professionals living in Dallas who drove to Highland Village on Saturday night to attend church (including Carly, whom I would meet and marry in the coming years!). Knowing I was enrolling in seminary, I watched the pastoral staff and tried to figure out what type of leader was at The Village Church. The more I got around them, the more consistency and humility I saw. I knew I wanted to learn from these kinds of men, so I volunteered wherever I could. When the Dallas campus soft-launched, I was on that team of members, eager to see what the Lord would do at Northway. I began to serve there, interned, got hired part-time, then full-time, and after three years on the Northway staff, moved to my hometown of Fort Worth to help launch and pastor our campus there. After five years in Fort Worth, Carly and I came to Flower Mound to work on a team that has felt like family for a long time.
If you had to give a TED Talk, what subject would you choose to speak on, and why?
How do I become who God has made me to be? It’s the question I think about, write about, and teach on most consistently—and one we all need to be clear on the answer.
Favorite Hobby:
I love to be outdoors. Anytime I can fly fish, hunt, and backpack—I’m in.