About Reigning by Grace Ministries

At the end of this season the Lord strongly put on my heart a new direction for our lives and a real gift of faith to see it come to pass.  After pastoring I began to move into the realm of business as a real estate investor.  The goal was to become financially free so that no matter what the Lord called us to do we would not need to depend upon a church salary or offering and to have our time back from having to work a job so we could enjoy life.  

At this time I really didnt know anything about creating wealth.  All you would hear in some churches is that if you would give and sow in the offering you would prosper, but I never heard anything concrete on how to build wealth in the church, or even in school for that matter.  I purposed in my heart that I would read one business book every two days.  I walked into the bookstore, and rather than going into the Christian section as I usually would, I walked into the business isle, said a quick prayer, and then saw the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. That book, outside of the Bible, changed my life more than any other book I read and set my life on a trajectory for the next 10 years.   

I continued to read and learn real estate investment and business strategy, and honestly for 7 or 8 years didnt even read a "Christian" book.  Over that time we have been able to become investors in multi-family rental properties as well as doing flips at times. I built, with a business partner, a property management company that grew tremendously even through the 2020 Covid shutdowns. My wife has also become a successful realtor in Southwest Florida, helping many people buy or sell their home in this area.  In many ways this time in business has helped me become a better leader and mature as a man, husband, and father, that I dont think would have happened had I stayed pastoring the church.  

During that time of business there were times of ministry here and there.  I would be asked to preach at a church occasionally, or would do a Bible study for a short time, but what was most suprising was I was asked by a pastor to consider being their youth pastor.  I was 41 at the time and figured my youth pastor days were behind me.  However the Holy Spirit had other plans, and, while doing business and real estate investment, I youth pastored for about 2 years. Once again we were able to see Jesus touch young people with His presence.  It rekindled and reactivated the call of God that was always there.  

It's now been some years since that last assigment.  We've continued to see God prosper us in real estate, however we feel the prompting of the Lord once again for us to "launch out into the deep." We know that a new season is in front of us again, one that is about the harvest of souls for the Lord and seeing God's people set free and filled with the Holy Spirit.  We may not know all of what the Lord has in store for us, but this is our story so far, and my hope is that with this you would know a bit of my, and my families, heart.  We give all glory to God, and it was all by His grace.