EDUCATION:
Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton N.J.
Graduation with Honors, Preaching and Speech Communication
D.Min. Columbia Theological Seminary, Atlanta, GA
Graduation with Honors
B.S. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London CT Graduation with Honors
Mathematics
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Interim Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Cumberland, MD
Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Daytona Beach, FL
Associate Pastor, Winter Park Presbyterian Church, Winter Park, FL
First Presbyterian Church of Farmington, NM
Pastor, Collierville Presbyterian Church, Collierville, TN.
Officer, U.S. Coast Guard
Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Base St. Louis, MO
operations Officer, Coast Guard Base Mobile AL
Communications Officer, Coast Guard Cutter Courageous
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Publication: DoubleTake Magazine, "On the Beach," spring 2001
Publication: DoubleTake-Points of Entry Magazine "This Child Here" Spring-Summer 2007
Documentary Photography (exhibitions in Odessa, Ukraine; Farminton New Mexico; Sienna, Italy).
Recipient "Humanitarian Award" from Sienna Film Festival, Sienna Italy, November 2009
Founded This Child Here, a non-profit serving orphans and street children .
Contributor to "How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth," a book of essays
Five mission trips with youth to Nicaragua 1999 to 2004
Pastoral exchanges in Ireland and Hungry
Adjunct teaching Ethics at Christian Brother''s College, Memphis TN
Adjunct teaching in Preaching and Speech Communications
Church Relations Board Warren Wilson College, Swanannoa, NC
Trained in Federal Mediation, Atlanta, GA
Moderated San Juan County Partnership, Farmington, New Mexico