I am currently 57 years old, born on 8/21/1948 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I was raised in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and went to high school at Pen Argyl High School. During my high school career, I became the first person in the history of our high school to make both All-State Band and All-State Choir.

I made All-State Band on Baritone Sax and All-State Choir as a vocal baritone. I was also involved in football, track and theater, playing the leading role in my senior play. After high school, I attended the University Of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, where I continued my musical and athletic background with a football scholarship and an academic scholarship at the university. I was involved in U of E’s A Capella Choir during most of my stay at the university, and I also continued to play the baritone sax until my sophomore year, when an attack of Bell’s Palsey took away my ability to play wind instruments. After recovering, I took up guitar, and played acoustic guitar through most of my college career and later ministry. Eventually, I would return to piano, organ and portable keyboard, which I had learned to play early in my youth.

During my stay at the university, I wrote and produced a contemporary Christian play called “This Child”, based on the story of the Nativity, which was presented at Shanklin Theater. The United Methodist Church would later ask me to take the play across campuses in the US.

After graduation from the university, I worked in the Evansville area for a number of years. A job opportunity spurred a move to Jasper, Indiana, where our family lived for quite some time. Eventually, ministry activities would bring us to the Jeffersonville area.

I am 5’ 11” tall, and weigh in at about 240, although you would never guess my weight or my age accurately. I think and act like a 30-year-old business executive and pastor. I am fair-skinned, with dark and slightly graying hair. My pastoral credentials are through the Ephesians 4 Network and the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. I have five children of my own : Carmen, Robert, Melanie, Benjamin and Emily. Carmen is a Social Worker, Robert a Purchasing Agent for Artec in Jasper, IN, Melanie a server for a restaurant chain, Ben a bank teller and Emily a student at IUPUI in Indianapolis. My children’s ages range from 34 to 21.

I am Pastor of the Fellowship @ River's Edge, a multi-cultural, Spirit-filled, non-denominational church located in Goshen, Ohio, just east of Cincinnati, Ohio. The church is a litte over a year old as of the writing of this article, and has seen multiple healings, signs, wonders and miracles. If you would like to know more, please feel free to read my Personal Testimony, my Ministry Resume, or my Professional Resume.

Co-Pastor, and founder of

Daughters of Ruth Ministry

Beverly Young

Beverly is currently 55 years old, born on 12/5/50 in Evansville, Indiana. She was raised in Evansville, and attended Central High School and Ivy Tech Business College. After high school, she married and moved to the Huntingburg area. That marriage eventually ended, and she moved to the Jasper, Indiana area, where she continued to work as a single mother with two daughters. I met Beverly at a church in the Jasper area.

We eventually married, and have worked hand-in-hand in the ministry since then. She is very much the Proverbs 31 Woman, and I am grateful for her faithfulness and constancy down through the years. She sings well, and has a soprano voice. She is 5’ 4”, and her weight is, like that of most women, an unpublished matter. She has blonde hair and I am told that she is clearly much better looking than me. She also has a special gift for ministering to hurting women, since she lost a 17-year old daughter some years ago.

She is a wonderful cook and hostess, which may account for some of my weight, and moves with a special grace in unfamiliar circumstances. She is also a marvelous decorator, and has a gift for turning nothing at all into something special when it comes to furnishings. She shares my commitment to the ministry and has been my Co-Pastor since the Cornerstone years. Beverly has one living daughter, Kathy, and two grandchildren, Angelica and Jennifer. We consider all of our children to be acquired, rather than step children. Beverly helped me raise my two youngest children, and we both help with the granddaughters, who love to be with us as often as possible. Beverly has a wonderful healing anointing and concentrates on ministry and maintaining our household.