Hello everyone! I have lived in Mid-Missouri my whole life but only in Jefferson City (Jeff City) for the last 15 years. Originally, I hailed from Brumley, which is a small town outside of Lake of the Ozark. I grew up a farm boy but never really took to that life.
Sara grew up in Las Vegas and later moved to Canton, MO, which is a small, northeast town across the river from Quincy, IL. We met at the rolling campus of Culver-Stockton College where it was love at the 10th or 15th sight. We were married in 2008 and moved to Jefferson City. We have three children Isaac, Hannah, and Jacob. After a few years in Jeff City, we found a church home with Memorial Baptist Church. The worship and teaching drew us in and the family we gained compelled us to stay. We put down roots and have been members ever since.
During our time at Memorial, we served in many capacities, including Communications/Graphics, Personnel, Youth/Children’s Ministry and even as the director of the small group ministry. Eventually, the Lord led my family to shepherd the church in 2018 alongside the Newton family. The Lord has truly been good to this church body bringing us out of some challenging times and we are so happy to be a part of what He is doing here with this body.
My family has a motto, rooted but ever-ready. Wherever we are we build relationships, but we are also ever ready to respond to how the Lord would move. This became true when the Lord used our love for missions and called our family to a year of missionary work, traveling the country in an RV. It was a marvelous experience, and we’re grateful the Lord invited us to participate in that ministry for however short a time. My family and I still love camping and the outdoors. We love sitting around a campfire and just taking in the night air.
Memorial is more than just a church; it is truly a family. I would like to present you with an open invitation to come. Come and seek Jesus with us. We are not perfect, we may not even be the coolest, but we seek Jesus here. Come and look to Him with us!
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and ball the more as
you see the Day drawing near.
