GREETINGS FROM THE PASTOR

Let me share with you my testimony.  I am blessed to have been born in a Christian family and to have grown up in church.     As a young teenager, I was saved and baptized.   I have served at one time or another in about every ministry of the church from teacher to choir director. God called me into full-time Christian service at the age of thirty. Being called by God into His service is an on-going experience for all Christians. What a great privilege that God allows us to work alongside Him.

My childhood years were spent in Morrisville, North Carolina, which is just outside of Cary.   I graduated from North Carolina State University in 1974 with two degrees. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and also a Bachelor of Science in Wood Science and Technology.  In my profession, I worked at Fort Bragg leading woodland management teams.

God called me to enter full-time Christian service in 1983. I graduated from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1986 with a Master of Divinity with Religious Education.  I became Senior Pastor at Westover Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, in 2005.

I am married to my wonderful wife, Debbie, and we have four children.  You will discover that I have a great love for people and love to see others grow in  knowledge and understanding of the Lord.  I am sensitive to the lost and want them to receive Christ.