About Us

I met my wife Jamie in high school. Her Father, Jim, required me to go to church with them if I wanted to date her. It was at this Baptist church in Roswell, NM (yes where the "aliens landed" lol) where I heard about heaven and hell... and I knew where my drug, alcohol, and sex-addicted teenage self was headed. 

I was nearly 18 years old, and after having an encounter with the Lord in a dream that night (that literally scared the hell out of me), I called Jamie's father and he picked me up, and took me to Pastor Wicker's house. My father-in-law, Jim, and Pastor Wicker led me to the lord in the middle of the night. It was from that moment on that the sanctification had to begin. I was left with a choice.

Do I stay the same sucky version of myself?

OR DO I ALLOW GOD'S LOVE & REDEMPTION TO MAKE ME NEW.

Do I follow in the footsteps of the generational curses laid before me? 

OR DO I BREAK THOSE CURSES AND CHANGE BY DESTINY?

It is these moments and decisions that shaped the next four decades of my life as a husband, a father, a grandfather, a pastor, a leader, a disciple, and a counselor to thousands over the years. My story of change became many stories of change. 

My mess became my message and my tests became my testimony!

I grew up without a dad (7-step dads); I grew up inside of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; I grew up addicted... in rehabs at too young of an age! After experiencing Jesus, I refused to let how I grew up be how my kids grew up. After experiencing Jesus, I decided to help the next generation become free from their pain and addictions.

I was called by the Lord at an early age in life into the ministry. As a young Baptist youth pastor I began to see hundreds of teenagers come to 

know the lord Jesus just as I did. I began to help them encounter the Lord and His presence...

In my early days of youth ministry, while driving a group of teens home from youth church one night we all began to speak in tongues as we were baptized with the Holy Spirit in the car. We were flooded with waves of God's presence and this encounter began to spread throughout youth ministry. Don't forget I was a Baptist youth pastor, so this was not only misunderstood but it was frowned upon. 

This would lead Jamie and me on a journey toward the charismatic and Pentecostal movements. We launched a youth ministry in Albuquerque, NM that exploded. The youth ministry in Albuquerque quickly grew from 70 teens to over 700 teens. Due to our influence growing with the next generation, we were invited to help lead the national youth movement for the Four Square denomination. 

We moved to California and served the national movement reaching hundreds of thousands of teens across America, including helping lead the Summit Youth Conferences. 

God would then lead us on our next assignment in Tucson Arizona where we launched the Happening Youth Church movement and Earth Shakers Youth Conferences. The youth ministry to over 800 teens weekly. 

We got invited to bring the Happening Youth Church model to Seattle, WA at Dr. Casey Treats church. We would build our first youth center and birth the Youth Church model here. 

After much success with the youth church model growing in Seattle, Pastor Mike Hayes invited us to build the 6.1 Million Dollar Neotropolis Youth Center in Dallas, TX. The youth center was 8 movie theaters renovated to include a gaming center, billiards, a basketball court, two theaters left intact for viewing, and a state-of-the-art worship center. The youth church model was implemented here at the Neotroplis seeing thousands of students come to the center to fellowship and worship weekly. 

After the 20-year journey of taking care of, investing in, discipling, and reaching the youth of America... In 2003, God would call Jamie and me back to Tucson, AZ to birth a church aimed at reaching the unreachable... Covenant Generations Church has carried on the heart and vision of what God started in me all those years ago as a young teenager... CHANGE!

20 years of salvations, 20 years of lives changed, 20 years of encountering the Lord!

20 years of trusting, 20 years of building, 20 years of believing...

And there is so much more to come!