About

I exist to glorify God by enjoying God.  My mission is to make more and better disciples by echoing Jesus’ twofold “Yes” from God and to God.  I am an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) serving as the Phillips Talbot Global Ministry Fellow at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, NY.  My wife and I just returned from a year and a half living, traveling, and learning in Africa and Asia, where we met and studied under some of the most effective disciple-makers alive today.  We moved to Zambia to study Church Planting, in hopes of leavening the American Church with the contagious Spirit of African Christianity.

I studied at Davidson College (B.S. Math) and Duke University (M. Div.).  I have worked discipling unchurched high schoolers, selling cars, teaching high school math, shepherding congregations, and training lay ministers.  I have worked in 2 countries, 3 states, 5 congregations, and a dozen parachurch ministries.

I love Jesus, my wife, woods, fishing, slow smoked meats, front porches, long conversations, working hard, acoustic guitars, competing, figuring it out, and laughing all the way.

For more information see my resumé.