Pastor Bob was raised in West Frankfort, Illinois and moved to Valdosta, Georgia in 1994. He grew up attending church but did not come to true saving faith until the age of 20. Bob met and married his wife Robbin in 1995 and moved to Waycross, Georgia. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education from Valdosta State University and served as a bi-vocational pastor and schoolteacher for 10 years. Bob and Robbin have two children. Ella, their daughter, is a nursing major at Truett-McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia and plays tennis for the TMU Bears. Their son, Bailey and daughter-in-law Lauren work and live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Bob has served as pastor in three churches before coming to Altamaha Baptist Church. He pastored bi-vocationally at Sand Hill Baptist in Race Pond, Georgia. He pastored two churches in full time vocational ministry. Serving Calvary Baptist Church in Waycross, Georgia (2006-2013) and First Baptist Church of Blue Ridge, Georgia in the beautiful North Georgia Mountains (2013-2022).

He earned a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and is currently working on a second Master of Arts degree in Missiology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Bob has served in various leadership roles in two different Baptist associations as well as the Georgia Baptist Mission Board. He has a passion for preaching and missions and is excited to lead Altamaha Baptist Church to fulfill Habakkuk 2:14, which desires to see “that the earth be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”

Brother Chris was raised in Tampa, Florida, the son of a Southern Baptist Pastor.  He is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University.  He was called into the ministry in 1992, at the age of twenty-two. 

He served as Associate Pastor of Borinquen Baptist Church in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for seven years and taught English at Carib Christian School.  He served as the  Minister of Youth at Kathleen Baptist in Lakeland, Florida for 5 years before beginning teaching English at Wayne County High School in Jesup, Georgia, in 2005.  In 2007, Chris was called to serve at Altamaha Baptist as Minister of Music. 

He married his wife, Amy, in 1993.  They have three children:  Daniel, Jared and Adeline.

I began my salvation journey with Jesus Christ when I was nine years old. I remember years ago when I was invited by a friend to a church event and the gospel was preached and my heart awoke to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Since then, my personal relationship with Christ has grown. As I “work out my salvation” in faithful conduct and Christian living, I see His hand guiding me and sanctifying me all along the way and I fully recognize “for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” and that there is no other in whom I can go and find such forgiveness, peace and complete joy! 

I surrendered the call to vocational ministry in my sophomore year of college. I've served as interim assistant youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Americus, Ga; preschool, children and youth minister at Limestone Baptist Church, Cochran, Ga; youth pastor and later education pastor at FBC Ludowici, Ga. I graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007 with a Master's of Education in discipleship and leadership. Candice and I have been married since 2000 and have three children: Haddon, Hannah and Hudson. We are excited to be ministering since 2013 at Altamaha Baptist Church and find joy in seeing children and their families grow in Christlikeness!

Joshua accepted the position of Student Pastor in December 2022. He has served in various roles in student and family ministry since 2017. Joshua graduated from The Baptist College of Florida with his BA in Christian Education and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity in Christian Education. 

Joshua grew up in Hayden, AL where the Lord called him to salvation at 16 years old. With a decision to serve the world or serve God, Joshua was broken for the things of God because of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. At age 18, Joshua got the call to ministry. He has a passion for missions and reaching the unreached and those who have never heard of Jesus Christ.