Developing 21st Century Glocal Servant Leadership

Family:
Married to June for thirty-three years as of March 18, 2010

LaMar’s Education:

Pursuing Doctor of Strategic Leadership Degree with a Strategic Leadership Emphasis
Regent University – School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA

2008-2009

Worked on M.A. in Church Development with a concentration in
Christianity & Culture at Winebrenner Theological Seminary – Findlay, OH

2008 Aug.
Finished Master of Arts Degree in Leadership Education
Mid-America Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK
Graduated Summa cum Laude in December, 2008

2007  May
Bachelor of Science Degree in Professional Ministries
Mid-America Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK
GPA 3.2

1993 Dec.
Diploma of General Bible Course-two year program
Liberty Home Bible Institute-Thomas Road Baptist Church
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
GPA 4.0

Honors:

• Named Outstanding Student of the Year – Master of Arts in Leadership – Mid-America Christian University – Class of 2008.
• Selected to The Official Register of Outstanding Americans: Special Edition of Southern Baptist Leaders 1985-1986.

Community Involvement

Currituck County School System

AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination) Moyock Middle School
Virginia Arrington – Principal
Serve weekly six hours plus as a paid tutor/mentor in 6-8th grade classrooms for the AVID Program.

• Served on the Teacher of the Year (2007) Committee for Currituck County School System.
• Served on the Teacher’s Assistant of the year (2009) Committee for Currituck County School System.
• 2 years judging Sr. Class projects at Currituck High School.
• 5 years partnering Rehoboth Baptist Church with Pilmoor United Methodist Church on joint Easter Sunrise community service.
• Currituck County Parks & Recreation Asst. Coach for children ages 5-9 in boy’s flag football, girls basketball, and coed soccer teams.

June’s Education:

March 2009
MBA degree with an additional concentration in Human Resources
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
Graduated Summa cum Laude

We have two grown children living in the Dade City and Wesley Chapel, Florida areas. Hugh (our oldest is an English Honors teacher at Wesley Chapel High School), his wife Robyn (USF grad.), and daughters Mackenzie and Sydney. Jason and his wife Joanna live in Wesley Chapel, FL, and he works for a church in Tampa as a web designer, and is involved in church planting. They have a daughter Rachel and son Joshua.

Church Staff History

Pastor: June 2004-Dec. 31, 2009
Rehoboth Baptist Church, SBC – Maple, NC

• Led our 135-year-old church to become incorporated, establishing by-laws stating we are a conservative SBC church.
• Missions Giving – led our church each of these five years to increase our giving each year by 1% to our Associational, State, and National Convention.
• In 2005, our first full year here as Pastor, we saw our church meet and exceed our budget for the first time in the memory of the people at our church.
• Restored the spirit and community image of the church plagued by people/pastoral issues which had resulted in an approximate decrease by two-third’s of its membership and attendance over the prior three years before arriving on staff.
• Made available our fellowship hall to the Currituck County Schools, Boy Scouts, and the local Historical Committee for meetings throughout the year.
• Remained debt free as a small senior adult church while making major and minor repairs to our parsonage and church facilities.
• Began Sunday evening services.
• Restarted the choir after resolving some musical issues that had prevented this.
• Began a Tuesday morning, weekly men’s prayer time/coffee hour in our home meeting from 8:00-9:30 A.M. that is still ongoing.
• As a former landscaper, we completely reworked the front of the parsonages yard.

Non-Staff

1993-2004 Our family’s membership was at FBC Plant City, SBC – Florida. Our children were active in the youth ministry, youth choir, praise and worship band, and participated in a number of mission trips and activities.

• Filled supply in churches throughout central Florida.
• Shiloh Associational ASSIST Team for a year.
• Discipleship Training Director and teacher for several years.
• Sunday school teacher from Single Senior Adult Class to age appropriate classes for many years.

Educational Apprentice-non-paid staff. Worked with the now deceased Oscar Calhoun, Minister of Education for approximately one year under his supervision.

June served in the Deaf Ministry as an interpreter and eventually headed this ministry for a period of time, as well as serving as a Sunday school teacher.

1991-1993
Our family’s membership was at FBC Zephyrhills, SBC – Florida, my hometown.

• Served as Senior Adult Men’s teacher and worked in various church visitation/outreach programs.

1990-1991
Myrtle Lake Baptist Church, SBC – Land O’ Lakes, FL

• Filled supply and taught in Sunday school as needed.

1989-1990
Minister of Youth: Bethel Baptist Church, SBC – Land O’ Lakes, FL

• Began and led a Wednesday night youth service involving music and age  appropriate discipleship/teaching lessons called S.W.A.T. (Spiritual Warfare and Training).Worked with the middle school and high school youth students  scheduling various outings for recreational and spiritual growth as we attempted to minister to their needs both inside and outside the church walls.
• Taught a weekly adult Sunday school class.
• Preached and filled supply on a regular basis

1987-1988
Attended Brewton-Parker College – Mt. Vernon, GA – SBC

1985-1986
Pastor – Olivet Baptist Church, SBC – Ocala, FL

• Served on Marion County Baptist Associational Committees: Evangelism, Joint Committee on Church Relations, and as Associational Youth Rally Director.
• Developed and hosted a Youth Ministers School of Ministry for Youth Ministers, Pastors, and youth workers in central Florida. Poly Rouse, then of FBC Orlando, and Mike Curry, then of Putnam City Baptist Church, Oklahoma City led the conference.
• Started our first session of CWT.

1984-1985
Pastor – North Main Baptist Church, SBC – Sheridan, AR

• Added a part time paid Minister of Music on staff.
• Added a part time non-paid Outreach Director on staff.
• Began and led a youth ministry on Wednesday nights called S.W.A.T. Our youth ministry also reached into the local middle and high schools.
• Held major weekend conference with Dave Hughey, then with International Evangelism Association.
• Purchased a second bus for our bus ministry and began weekly outreach program.
• Certified nationally as a Pastor/Leader in CWT and began CWT in our church.
• Became a certified WOW Instructor.
• Associational Camp Program Director, Camp Paron, for the Pulaski County Baptist Association. Primary responsibility of assembling the teachers, the curriculum and overseeing the spiritual aspect of the camp.  I also taught a group of students. Students were Jr. High and High School. Led one of the adult counselors to Christ while there.
• Experienced 37 additions to the church during this pastorate.
• Held successful revival with one of the then SBC’s premier evangelists – Walter K. Ayers.

1983-1984
Woodson Baptist Church, SBC – Woodson, AR

• Ordained to the ministry here on July 1, 1984.
• Began and led a youth ministry on Wednesday nights called S.W.A.T.
• Started a weekly youth ministry outreach.
• Hosted major youth and church revivals, allowing local churches (deliberately targeted) to be a part of what God was doing in our church.
• Taught at Camp Paron, our Pulaski County Baptist Associational Camp.
• Our church finished in the top twenty in our Association in various areas of growth.
• God added 16 to our church during this time. This may not sound like a lot, but when you understand they had 10 baptisms in the prior 12 years, it is a good increase.

Licensed to the Gospel Ministry – January 1, 1980 – Enterprise Missionary Baptist Church, Dade City, FL