Our Family

Our story

In 1995, I (Tommy) was asked to be the director of a national traveling, singing and drama mission team called Missions USA Live. I was watching a stack of video auditions when I first saw my wife. She popped up on the screen and I knew she was the one for me. As the story goes, Jo made the team and we spent that year traveling the country serving on the mission field. At the end of that one year commitment, we got married.

I grew up in Fairfax, OK and after college spent three years serving as a missionary. Jo grew up in Tampa, FL, and then joined me on the team. We spent six years in Cincinnati, OH, while I served as Pastor of Students & Families at Mt. Healthy Baptist Church. We then moved to Morristown, TN, where I served four years as a Recreation Pastor at Alpha Baptist Church.

We moved to Tallahassee in 2006 and I am serving as the Children & Family Pastor at Celebration Baptist Church. We had two kids in Ohio (Joey & Alena), two kids in Tennessee (Alex & Jonah) and three kids in Florida (Alivia & Tommy, Jr. and Titus).

It has always been our passion to to help families grow spiritually and one way we have discovered to do that is to help others memorize tons of scripture. We created Mega Verses as a family ministry to help churches, schools and families to memorize God's Word.

We have personally seen parents and kids memorize hundreds of verses and are thankful that God has used Mega Verses to help disciple others.