Education B.A. (Religious Education) 1981, Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana

Master of Divinity Degree (1991), Southern Baptist School for Biblical Studies, Jacksonville, Florida

Doctor of Ministry Degree (1999), D.Min. Writing Project: “Rebuilding Homes from the Pulpit”, Southern Baptist School for Biblical Studies Jacksonville, Florida

Additional Study, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana

Master of Sacred Theology Degree, Graduate with High Distinction (May 2010), Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, Lynchburg, VA.

Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Apologetics & Theology) - Liberty University School of Divinity(December 2018) Dissertation: “Missional Apologetics”

I was licensed to the Ministry in 1976 by the Brookstown Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, LA.

I was ordained to the Ministry in 1980 by the Poland Baptist Church in Poland, LA.

I served in pastoral ministry of churches in Louisiana from 1976 until 2005. I also served as the Associational Missionary of the Steel Valley Baptist Association in the great state of Ohio from August 16, 2005 until July 15, 2017. I accepted the call of the historic Woodville Baptiast Church in Woodville Mississippi, beginning my service as Senior Pastor on July 16, 2017.

 I have also served as the Seminary Extension Director and Instructor in three Seminary Extension Centers (Natchitoches, LA; Scott, LA.; and Warren, OH.). I have served as an Adjunct Professor for the Liberty University School of Divinity since 2012.