Scholar-Practitioner · Advisor
Built for a hundred years.
Driven by one question.
What becomes possible when a leader gets their time back?
Time is not a resource to be spent. It is a seed to be planted.
When a leader gets their time back, they stop managing the urgent and start architecting the generational. The 100-Year Lens is the discipline of looking past the program to see the foundation.
The Impact Horizon
The 100-Year Lens shifts your energy from Programmatic Maintenance to Seed Architecture.
Convictions
Place-Based
We seek the peace of the city where God has sent us. Every ZIP code deserves an infrastructure of hope that outlasts its current leaders.
Generational
God thinks in thousands of generations. Our architecture today is the shade our great-grandchildren will sit under.
The Answer
What becomes possible?
Multiplication
One message becomes a movement. One leader becomes a cohort. One hour of your time produces 100 years of peace.
Restoration
You move from "breach-mending" (crisis management) to "foundation-raising" (Acts 13:36).
Freedom
You get your life back, not to do nothing, but to do what only you can do: steward the will of God for your generation.
Let's find your time again.
Connect for a 15-Minute ConnectionThe Story
I’ve been studying time, systems, and people since my first day at City Hall.
In my early twenties, I split my time between youth ministry and the City Manager’s office. I was running transit time studies to save public dollars by day and leading neighborhood devotionals by night. Finance degree in one hand; youth pastor badge in the other.
Two decades later, that thread remains. Across corporate community management and international church networks, my focus has never shifted: What becomes possible when a leader gets their time back?
It took a 100-year vision to name the goal clearly: building the infrastructure for the church to be present and intentional in the exact places God planted it. Every tool, lab, and book I build is an arrow pointed at that destination.
Based in Orlando, FL with my wife Marie and our three children: Imani, Aniyah, and Nehemiah.
See the 100-year vision"Family is the first neighborhood I was ever asked to lead well."
Mission
Return time and clarity to leaders so their calling has room to move.
When leaders stop drowning in scattered effort, their people grow deeper and their neighborhoods are loved more specifically. This is the work at year one—and the legacy at year one hundred.
Vision
A movement where churches and families operate as one focused team:
- Neighborhood Intelligence: Seeing gifts and gaps clearly, not guessing at them.
- Monday Discipleship: Living the faith through daily habits, not just Sunday hearing.
- Intergenerational Impact: Launching youth into real projects that change their block.
- Institutional Durability: Building the governance and endowments to outlast a single generation.
Worldview
God is already at work in your neighborhood. The gap is rarely effort—it is clarity. While culture forms your people through digital habits and frantic schedules, a pastor who is too busy to notice is losing ground by default.
Time is not a resource problem; it is a design problem. When churches, nonprofits, and schools share a common map of their place, they can love a neighborhood in ways no single program ever could.
The best movements eventually disappear into the culture they changed. The aim is for "knowing your neighbor" to shift from an innovation to an assumption.
Three Things That Should Be So
- Every neighbor is seen. Decisions are shaped by real stories and hard data, not assumptions.
- Every believer is active. Transitioning from "I care" to a concrete, honest next step this week.
- Every child is launched. A pathway from potential to practice, building while the church walks with them.
The Measure of the 100-Year Vision
The Methodology
Strategy without execution is just a hallucination.
I work at the intersection of strategy, formation, and technical build-out. Because this is a 100-year project, I don't hand over "quarterly wins"—I build systems that outlast the current news cycle.
Listen & Prototype
We identify your specific "People and Place" context. Then, we design a 90-day experiment to prove value before adding a single hour to your calendar.
Standardize the Toolset
Community Playbook, Multiply, and Dream Chaser Kids are a unified OS. No more stitching apps together on borrowed time—one system, one direction.
Scale the Evidence
We name what is working and adjust what isn't. The data we capture today forms the evidence base for the next generation of institutional leaders.
Now (Years 1–3)
Prove. Publish the trilogy, pilot the labs, and establish proof-of-concept across real-world ZIP codes and networks.
Near (Years 4–10)
Scale. Defend the PhD, expand platform reach across denominations, and transition into advisory roles for national institutions.
Long (Years 10–100)
Endure. Charter the Institute, close the pipeline loop for Dream Chaser Kids, and let the work outlive the founder.
The work happens inside cohorts and labs so you are never alone. Together, we decide what to sustain, what to scale, and what to build for those who come after us.
The Books
The stall is over. Here is the sequence.
A book released without a destination is just content. A book released as the opening move of a 100-year institution is infrastructure. Together, they form the intellectual foundation of this movement—the field manual that trains leaders and the apologetic that opens doors.
Strategic Order: Why Planted Publishes First
Planted is the field manual—concrete, pastoral, and connected to the live experience already running inside the Immerse Project. It creates the audience. More Than a Message is the apologetic—and apologetics land harder when there is already something to defend. Planted opens the door. More Than a Message walks through it.
Book One · The Field Manual
Planted
People, place, and the local church.
A practical guide for pastors who want to understand the people they serve and the ZIP codes they inhabit. It moves leaders from "leading in a fog" to leading with rooted focus.
- Biblical imagination for being "sent" to a specific address.
- Practical relational mapping and neighborhood discernment.
- Companion to the People & Place Lab (Lilly-funded proof of concept).
- Targeting traditional publishing for seminary and denominational credibility.
Book Two · The Apologetic
More Than a Message
Why the pulpit still shapes the world.
A deeply researched case for why the pulpit remains a pastor's most powerful lever. It explores how sermons move systems and communities in an age of AI and cultural fragmentation.
- Historical patterns of preaching that shaped civilizations.
- The theological and philosophical logic behind the Multiply platform.
- Reclaiming the pulpit's role in the age of AI ethics.
- Targeting strategic hybrid publishing for direct network impact.
The How
Planted
The field manual for practitioners and church networks.
The Why
More Than a Message
The apologetic for institutions and scholars.
The Proof
The PhD Dissertation
The academic defense that anchors the trilogy.
Refining the Path
Planted is built for the traditional publishing world to gain seminary and denominational placement. More Than a Message is built for speed and control—reaching the audience the platform has already gathered. Both are ready. The stall is over.
Proven Across Contexts
The work behind the work.
Community Playbook, Multiply, and Dream Chaser Kids did not come from a whiteboard. They emerged from two decades of leading congregations, scaling international platforms, and designing learning systems for hospitals and city halls. This is the foundation the next hundred years is built on.
Leading Transformation Networks
2024 – Present
Project Director (Immerse), TMS Global
Leading a 16-month cohort equipping pastors to engage their communities with clarity and measurable impact. This is the live pilot proving the 100-year framework in real ZIP codes with real leaders.
Founder, Community Transformation OS
Building the integrated IP infrastructure—Community Playbook, Multiply, Dream Chaser Kids—that allows networks to align people, place, and purpose without adding complexity to stretched leaders.
Pastoral Leadership & Crisis Growth
2012 – 2021
Church Planter & Lead Preacher, Kingdom Church of Christ
Planted and grew a Spirit-led community rooted in authentic belonging. Navigated pandemic transformation by helping members move from passive attendance to neighbor-focused devotion. The pastoral instincts built here live in every tool I design today.
Lead Preacher, Sugar Creek Church of Christ
The early laboratory for what Multiply would later systematize. Helped a legacy congregation transition into an active discipleship model where members showed up for one another outside the Sunday walls.
Scaling Community & Product Impact
2017 – 2024
Community Manager, Bluesight (Healthcare Tech)
Scaled learning initiatives to 1,500+ users across 2,200 hospitals. Reduced friction and returned time to clinical teams through community-based support. The same design logic now fuels the Community Playbook framework.
Global Community Manager, Ticketmaster
Managed search and content operations across 14 international markets. Developed the global systems lens required to build platforms that scale without losing local relevance.
Director of Community Programs, Communities Doing Good Inc.
Led economic mobility initiatives in partnership with UNC Charlotte. Connected community data to real program decisions—the direct predecessor to the ZIP-code intelligence layer in my current work.
Where the Thread Begins
Early Career · Texas
City Manager Intern & Youth Pastor
Served city managers in Terrell and Tyler, TX while simultaneously serving as a Youth Pastor. Conducted transit time studies to save public dollars while presenting community stories to City Council. Finance degree. Youth pastor heart. Two worlds that never stopped informing each other.
Education & Credentials
MS, Nonprofit Management & Leadership
Walden University
BBA, Finance
University of Texas at Tyler
Key Certifications
MajorDomo (Analytics) · Community MBA (CMX) · Strategic Leadership (Regent) · Gamification for Learning
Next Credential · In Pursuit
Pursuing a fully funded PhD at the intersection of **practical theology, community economics, and AI ethics**. Research focus: the "how, why, and proof" of institutional transformation in the digital age. Target institutions include Duke, Notre Dame, and Cambridge.
Boards & Institutions
Looking for long-horizon perspective?
I partner with universities, seminaries, and foundations seeking advisory at the intersection of pastoral leadership, community systems, and AI governance. If you are building something meant to last decades, let’s talk.
Next Step
What would you do with your time back?
Whether you lead a local church, a network, or a global institution—we can start with one honest conversation. No pressure, no pitch. Just clarity on where you are and what moves next.
Accepting a limited number of advisory roles and cohort partnerships for 2026.