Tim was called to the ministry when he was 16 years old. After graduating from Howe High School on the east side of Indianapolis, Tim enlisted in the Army Reserve as a Chaplain assistant. After completion of basic training and advanced individual training Tim returned to Indianapolis.

Tim attended IUPUI earning a Bachelor of Arts in history and continued to serve in the army Reserve as a chaplain assistant. During Tim’s senior year he became the interim pastor at Irvington Baptist Chapel and served as interim pastor for 16 months. Tim was licensed to the gospel ministry in 1991 by Southwood Baptist church.

Tim entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1992. In 1993 Tim received a commission in the Indiana National Guard as a chaplain candidate. Tim graduated on the dean’s list with a Masters of Divinity in 1995. Tim was ordained by Southwood Baptist church in 1995. Tim married his college sweetheart, Janice, shortly after graduation from seminary and they just celebrated 10 years of marriage and ministry together this year. Tim then became a full chaplain in the Indiana National Guard, serving as a chaplain in aviation, field artillery, signal, and infantry units.

Tim became a bivocational pastor working full time and pastoring Pike Baptist Church in 1999. Tim joined the ministry staff of Lighthouse Mission Ministries in 2001 while continuing to pastor Pike Baptist Church. He served as a chaplain, counseled and ministered to men in the Christian recovery program known as the LifePlan program of Lighthouse Mission. While serving as a chaplain at the mission Tim gained many hours of continuous education in drug and alcohol addiction as well as achieving his Addiction Counselor in Training certificate by the Indiana Counselor’s Association on Alcohol and Drugs.

In 2004 Tim was mobilized with the Indiana National Guard to serve in the Global War on Terrorism. Tim served 15 months on active duty as the Deputy Task Force Chaplain for Task Force Phoenix. His duty included serving 12 months in Afghanistan. Prior to deploying, Pastor Tim and Dr. Hunter arranged to merge One Vision in Christ Community Baptist Church, an African American church and Pike Baptist Church, a Caucasian church to form one of the first multi-ethnic Southern Baptist churches in the city.

Upon Tim’s return from Afghanistan he continues to serve full time with Lighthouse Mission as the Director of After Care and the ministry staff at One Vision in Christ.
Tim and Janice have 3 children, Stephen, Sarah, and Hannah.

Tim has 20 years of military service in the Chaplain Corp and will continue to work with redeploying soldiers and their spouses in marriage work shops through out the year as well as attending the command and General Staff College. Janice is employed full time at IUPUI and is currently working on a master in Human Computer Iinteraction.