Born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, I experienced my first sense of God’s call to me to ministry when I was 12. Before pursuing it, I labored in various occupations. Responding to a renewed sense of call, I began worshipping with a local Church of Christ congregation and was blessed to meet among the good people there my wife-to-be, Lee Elena Mathis. We have been married happily for nineteen years. Lee Elena is finishing her Nurse Practitioner’s degree through Texas Tech. Our three children are Valerie, 17, Emily, 16, and Melanie, 12. Our family is my greatest joy.

Responding to my vocation took us to Abilene, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, then Houston, then Austin again. Along the way we found our home in the breadth and depth of the fellowship of the Episcopal Church. Meanwhile, I have been blessed to respond to my vocation through ministry in rural evangelical congregations, large suburban and urban Episcopal parishes, and now serving with a fantastically vibrant congregation, a parish in transition from pastoral size to program and from a suburban environment to urban.
God provides me great satisfactions, stimulating challenges, and surprising blessings as my sense of God’s call continues to unfold and I continue to respond.