About A People for His Name

At the Jerusalem Council, James shared how Peter had declared “how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name” (Acts 15:14). What God began back then in Caesarea, He is continuing to do all over the world. As a Gentile whom He has taken to be among His people, I desire to perpetuate God’s glorifying Himself through taking out many more people for His name.

God saved me in 1990 and put me in Calvary Baptist Church in Cookeville, Tennessee. Over the years, I have served there in many capacities, including teaching for Vacation Bible School and Sunday school on numerous occasions as well as preaching many times. I also have been extensively involved in ministering to the youth at Calvary in various ways since I first attended there.

God brought me to Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1991. I have been heavily involved in door-to-door visitation in my years at Mount Calvary. I have also given many challenges before door-to-door visitation, taught adult Sunday school numerous times, and ministered a number of times in special music in various capacities in the church.

As part of the College and Career ministry at Mount Calvary as well as on my own with a number of friends, I have ministered many times to other churches in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. We have held youth activities, ministered in preaching, teaching, and music, and engaged in visitation outreaches. We also helped one church extensively with yard work and other manual labor around the church.

I have also ministered during two summers overseas. I taught men in ministry or training for ministry, preached in churches, and evangelized many lost people.

In April-October 2010, the Lord provided me with 20 opportunities to preach and teach in nine churches in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. I then ministered overseas 43 times in 42 days, including preaching 39 times. In addition to preaching in churches, my ministry included preaching in chapel services at four colleges, teaching three subjects for one week at a college, speaking for a family camp, speaking at an orphanage, and accompanying a college choir on my classical guitar in two services.

I believe that God is directing me now to an itinerant preaching and teaching ministry that especially promotes evangelism that is fully in keeping with all that the Bible reveals about what He wants proclaimed throughout the world. The Lord has opened up some opportunities to minister on that topic since I graduated, and I look forward to His directing me as I continue pursuing additional opportunities to minister His Word.

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