Pastor Greg is from Columbia, Mississippi, about 90 miles north of New Orleans, Louisiana.   After graduating from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management, Greg returned to his hometown and managed his family-owned retail sporting goods business for nine years.  Upon discerning a call into full-time pastoral ministry, he earned a Master of Divinity Degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.  Pastor Greg pastored in the Mississippi Annual Conference of the UMC for five years before taking a leave of absence.  He joined Rev. Jim Powell and the staff at Palmdale UMC, in California, for nine years as a minister for children, youth, and young adults.

While working at Palmdale UMC, Pastor Greg also worked part-time at the Christian Pastoral Counseling Center of Pasadena for three years and served eight years as a volunteer co-dean of Camp Wrightwood senior high camps.

In 2009, Pastor Greg returned to Mississippi for nine years to pastor and care for his mom.  Pastor Greg married Angela Clark in his mother’s bedroom two weeks before his mother passed in February 2017.  Angela has been riding horses since age three, and Greg and Angela enjoy many outdoor activities year-round.

Pastor Greg and his wife Angela have been honored to serve through the Lancaster UMC since July 2019.