Senior Pastor
Chad has served East Cross Church since May of 2006 as the Associate Pastor and, since 2019, as the Director of Student Ministries. He is married to Lesli and has two children, Riley and Cameron.
Chad grew up in Oklahoma City and, after graduating from Western Heights High School, he attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater pursuing a degree in International Business and Management. Upon graduating from OSU in 2000, Chad accepted a job with the Pepsi Bottling Company in Tulsa working as a Full-Service Vending Manager. While attending Owasso First United Methodist Church, Chad heard God’s call on him to serve in full time ministry. Following that call led Chad to be appointed as a Student Local Pastor to Ochelata United Methodist Church in 2002. It was at this same time that he began his theological studies at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa. Chad graduated from Phillips in 2006 with a Masters of Divinity degree and was appointed to East Cross as the Associate Pastor that same year.
“It has been a joy to serve alongside the amazing people of East Cross all these many years. It is my prayer that you will find a home here just as my family and I have.”