I first attended Faith in the early 90’s as an undergraduate business student at Bob Jones University. As a senior at the University, I was offered a Graduate Assistantship as a Dormitory Counselor, and while serving in this capacity I was able to complete my MS in Counseling.

I maintain a full time position as VP of Operations at local manufacturing company and have acted as Youth Director at Faith Baptist Church for approximately ten years.

I was married to my wife, Heidi, immediately following Graduate School and have been blessed with two children, Tyler-7, and Zachary-4. It is our desire to continue to serve together at Faith Baptist Church as God continues to bless this ministry.

The Faith Baptist Church High School Youth program is driven by two primary objectives: evangelizing and training young men and women to reproduce the fruit of the Spirit in their daily lives. We feel strongly that this personal transformation will produce spiritually mature believers that are able to actively demonstrate the power of God and ultimately affect others. It is sobering to consider that our young people are making decisions in these early years that will affect the remainder of their lives. In fact, some will bear the life long marks of poor decisions that are the simple result of spiritual immaturity. It is our mission to aid them in developing the ability to discern proper choices, and set them on a life track that is successful and pleasing to God. We are also active in busing in young people from local public schools, some of which are relatively un-churched. This effort to evangelize beyond our church family can be challenging and therefore in many churches is dismissed as disruptive to the church kids. As a result, this philosophy is producing a generation of churches that seemingly lack the desire to evangelize and disciple. It is our goal to help our church teens develop to a place spiritually that they are able to positively influence others rather than suffer the effects of the world’s influences.

Young people who are not rooted in the scriptures, nor challenged beyond their knowledge to practically implement these truths, are destined to carry poor attitudes and behaviors into their marriages, families, jobs, and churches. It is our goal to reverse this trend by developing teens that are knowledgeable, as well as sensitive to God’s prompting.

Below, you will find a list of sample challenges from our Teen Department:

"Fear-Fear Not" - We spend so much of our time and energy fearing what might happen and yet miss the one thing that we should fear (respect)…God Himself.

"Love vs. Lust" - So many relationships are built upon the principles of lust taking, verses God’s perfect example of love giving.

"The fool hath said…" - We are prone to believe that if a thought/philosophy appears to be logical that it must be true; however, we forget that God’s ways are beyond man’s reason.

"Teachings from the Vine-resisting correction" - At an early age we learn that correction can be somewhat unpleasant, and so we learn to avoid correction; making excuses and exemptions…

"Let this mind be in you…" - Paul describes this single mind in many of his New Testament writings. It is a mind that is humble and focused upon others.

Meeting times:

Sunday school: 10:00 - 10:45 AM

Wednesday night teen meetings: 7:00 - 8:30PM (includes games, singing, and Bible challenge)

Activities are scheduled - Our last two activities included White water rafting and the Annual Farm Fest Event.