What are your experiences and areas of service that you believe will be valuable in your role as a General Conference delegate?

• 35 years of Methodist ministry experience on 4 continents in 14 countries
• Strong international and cross-cultural ministry skills and awareness
• 30 years of ministry in the SGA Methodist family with an extensive network of relationships (laity and clergy), having preached in over 200 Methodist churches in SGA.
• 7 years with The Mission Society (now TMS Global) in Costa Rica, Peru, Paraguay, Honduras, Venezuela, and Mexico.
• Founding Member of the WCA in Chicago 2016
• Attended the WCA Global Gatherings and Legislative Sessions 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.
• SGA UMC Delegate to UMC SEJ Jurisdictional Conference 2020
• Worked to represent the traditional, orthodox, Methodist voice among the UMC leadership teams in SGA and the SEJ
• Assisted in leading numerous SGA churches out of the UMC into the GMC
• Addressed the SGA UMC Annual Conference as a member of our delegation sharing the results of the survey regarding churches desire to disaffiliate
• Current Area Presiding Elder for the Swainsboro and Dublin Connectional Communities of the SGA GMC
• Experience drafting and amending legislation

Describe why you believe that God has potentially called you to serve as a General Conference delegate.

I have been a Spirit-empowered Christ-follower from my conversion 42 years ago.  It did not take me long to realize that there were many things that were broken in the UMC system.  For much of my life in Christ I have had a strong passion and commitment to traditionalist reform of the UMC through a front-line fight for orthodox and biblical Christianity.  That journey led to being a part of the formation of both the WCA and the GMC.  If elected, I believe attending this General Conference would be a natural extension of this passion that Christ has placed in my heart.  

I have seen world-wide Methodism at its finest and at its most heretical.   I have a good grasp of what we should strive to be like, and of what we must resoundingly reject. I am passionately committed to the GMC not becoming a ‘UMC 2.0.’  I desire for the people called Methodist to once again be a movement of the Spirit involved in the saving of souls and the spread of scriptural holiness everywhere we work.