UPDATE FROM OUR 
MUSIC MINISTER SEARCH COMMITTEE

Family​

• Adrianne Leigh (wife), Anniversary July 24

• Son, Andrew (40), Daughter-in-Law, Hannah

• Grandchildren - Hazel Grace (9), Theodore James (2mths)

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Ordination​​

• Englewood Baptist Church | Jackson, TN – March 12, 1989

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Education

• North Side High School | Jackson, TN (1978)

• Union University | Jackson, TN (Sacred Music Major, 1982)

 

 Childhood Home and Church

• Life Pointe (formerly, First Baptist Church) | Smyrna, TN

 

Ministry Emphasis

• “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” John 12:32

 

Current Ministry

• Executive Pastor – Minister of Music, Administration and Family Ministries – Woodland Baptist Church, Jackson, TN.

 

Selected Previous Ministry Experience

• Minister of Music, 2010-2023 -  Liberty Baptist Church | Flowood, MS.

• Minister of Music, 2000-2008 - Whitten Memorial Baptist Church | Memphis, TN

• Minister of Music, 1988-1999 Eudora Baptist Church | Memphis, TN

• Associate Pastor of Youth and Music, 1986-88 - First Baptist Church | Lawrenceburg, TN  

 

                   

Ministry Highlights

 

Woodland Baptist Church | Jackson, TN

• Keith Getty’s SING! Worship Leaders Conference | Nashville, TN.

• Hired local college musicians as well as volunteer vocal and instrumentalists

• Combined Worship services with sister Hispanic Congregation meeting on campus

• Upgrade of sound system with new amps and wireless mics, video and live stream systems 

• TN Baptist Convention – Woodland training events by TBC Safety Specialist 

• TN Baptist Convention – Sunday School and Young Adult Ministry Specialists – implement new strategies 

• Church Webpage development, contracted local companies, manage support staff and committees

 

Liberty Baptist Church | Flowood, MS

• “Christmas @ Liberty” – Annual Christmas Music Worship Service (Orchestra volunteer and prof. musicians)

• Implemented Worship Band, weekly and special events – woodwinds, brass and percussion

• Implemented Sign Language Ministry during Covid 

• EXPERIENCE – “Worship Leaders” Conference | Orlando, FL

• EXPONENTIAL Discipleship Conference | Orlando, FL (Liberty Staff)

• LIFEWAY – Worship Life Conference | Gatlinburg, TN.

• Keith Getty’s SING! Worship Leaders Conference | Nashville, TN.

• “The Retreat” Prism Music Co.

• Installed Aviom onstage (IEM) in-ear monitoring system

• National Worship Leadership Conference, Trevecca University | Nashville, TN.

• Installed Tri-caster Video Recording System and streaming

• Worship Concert Series – Daves Highway, Shelly E. Johnson, Bruce/Lisa Wythe, The Melody Boys Quarte

• Installed PreSonus 32 channel digital sound system console

• Celebrators Conference – (Phil Waldrop) Sevierville and Pigeon Forge

• MSBC Heartsong Youth Music Camp

• MSBC Young Musicians Camp & S.M.A.C.K. (Summer Music Arts Camp for Kids)

• MSBC Music Mississippi Leadership Conference

• CATALYST– Leadership Conference (Liberty Staff) | Atlanta, GA.

 

Whitten Memorial | Memphis, TN

• As Senior Associate Pastor, gave oversight to daily operations and staff, and assisted the Senior Pastor

• Praise Kids! – a Memphis and Mid-South area Children’s event – 1st-6th grade student choirs

• “Praise Gathering” – a uniting worship event of area church congregations and choirs, annual fall event

• Professional Christmas CD recording project, Brentwood-Benson (Phil Barfoot) – Portraits of Christmas

• Coordinated gymnasium renovations into current Worship Center – lighting, sound, video technologies

• Host church for weekly rehearsals of Bartlett Community Concert band | Bartlett, TN

 

Eudora Baptist | Memphis, TN

• Contemporary service “The Gathering” – using professional and volunteer musicians

• Staff coordinator of Campus renovations contract between Eudora and Memphis Symphony Orchestra

• “Praise Gathering” – organized a uniting worship event of area churches and choirs, annual fall event

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

State Conventions

• Host Church for West Tennessee Men’s Chorale Concert – January 25

• MS Singing Churchmen Missions – Cuba, 17; New England, 19

• MS Singing Churchmen Officer: Central Mississippi Coordinator – 17-19

• Mississippi Singing Churchmen – 11 – 22

• Host for MS Baptist Convention Church Music Banquet – 17, 19

• Tennessee Men’s Chorale –40 years

 

Associational Participation

• Assist team for Rankin Baptist Assoc. Orchestra Workshop with Camp Kirkland 

• Mid-South Singers (formerly Shelby Singers) 

• Director of “Mid-South Singers” (formerly, Shelby Singers) – Memphis area Ministers of Music – 02 - 04

 

Community Involvement

• Coordinator for Dallas, TX Operation Christmas Child Processing Center – 17, 18

• Coordinator for Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Collection Center @ Liberty – 17, 18, 19 

• Gideons International, Annual Mississippi State Convention, Jackson, MS – Worship Leader, 15

• Invocation Prayer for the Flowood (MS) Mayor’s Annual Prayer Breakfast – 2013, 15

• Singer of the National Anthem, Annual Royal Ambassadors’ Day, Memphis Redbirds – 09