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.”