Academic Experience

  • Earned the Ph.D. in Leadership and the coursework (ABD) for the Ed.D. (Doctor of Education), which includes 94 hours of residential and modified residency studies from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
  • In academic teaching since 1995
  • Taught 20 different academic courses
  • Taught full courses at undergraduate and graduate levels and at five institutions
  • Lectured at the doctoral level
  • Vice President of North American Professors of Christian Education (NAPCE)
  • Given lectures at multiple accredited institutions including: Southern Seminary; Southwestern Seminary; Midwestern Seminary; North Park Theological Seminary; John Brown University; North Park University; Cedarville University; Cornerstone University; Liberty University; Boyce College; Bryan College, et al.



    Local Church Experience

  • Served nearly 20 years in local church ministry
  • Served in rural, suburban, urban, & inner-city settings
  • Served in the Bible-Belt south and in the north/midwest
  • Served in church plants, established, & growing churches
  • Served in small, mid-sized, and large churches
  • Served in multicultural and multiethnic congregations
  • Served in churches with Sunday School & Small Groups
  • Served as a pastoral staff in the state's leading churches
  • Leadership experience with church planters, interns, and multi-staff structures and multi-site congregations

Credentials
    Other Experience

  • Multiple published articles
  • Local church consulting experience
  • College and Christian school chapel speaker
  • Retreat facilitator, seminar leader
  • Internships, Interims, supply preaching
  • Denominational leadership positions
  • Mentoring, coaching, spiritual directing
  • Evangelism, discipleship, and counseling
  • Conference and convention presenter
  • Business and civic organization speaker
  • Corporate non-ministry work experience
  • Parachurch & camping ministry experience
  • Leader of multiple North American mission trips, including a host of major urban areas
  • Disaster relief, battered women, homeless, gang-intervention, construction, and other benevolence and crisis ministries