Why do you work at Fairhaven?

I love the heart and vision of helping people “find hope” no matter where they are in life. I enjoy the passionate worship, teaching of God’s Word and opportunities to grow in genuine relationships with other believers. I am excited to help build God’s kingdom in Springboro and reach the community for Christ, while still being connected to Fairhaven as one church.

Your faith

I grew up in an amazing Christian home with loving parents who always taught me and encouraged me to follow Jesus. But I was the “Prodigal Son” who went out west and decided to live my life apart from Christ. I soon realized that the world and its desires were only a “counterfeit” to the unconditional grace and enduring truth I could only find in Jesus Christ. Slowly the Lord began to “draw me back to Him”, and at the age of 21 I surrendered my life to Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Three days later I was baptized at Fairhaven, and my spiritual journey began.

I met my amazing wife in college and then moved out to California to pursue a career in advertising. Along the way, I realized I had more passion for ministry than marketing, and the Lord opened a door to full-time pastoral work. The rest is history.

Bible verse

“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14