Brad entered full time vocational ministry in June of 2005 after having served Fellowship as an elder since 2001. He has degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and spent ten years with IBM in Indiana and Illinois before moving to Knoxville in the summer of 1994. He has been a marketing executive for two technology startup companies as well as an importer of art glass from China. Brad is every bit the contemplative and enjoys reading and solitude whenever the opportunity presents itself. He and his wife Judy have five children and one grandchild.