Jacob has served the Lord in ministry since January of 2004 in several different capacities including as a pastor of Student Ministries in two different Southern Baptist Churches and as a Christian apologist. He married his sweetheart Susan Allee on October 4th 2003. Jacob and Susan have four children, Naomi, Titus, Judah and Zoe. Jacob is crazy about his wife and kids and next to Christ they are his number one passion.
Jacob came to saving faith in Christ when he was 15 years old after having gotten involved as a young teen in drug and alcohol abuse. He had found himself in a downward spiral of anger and despair. At one point he even considered taking his own life, but it was in that darkest hour that Jacob called out to God and made a decision to trust Christ to save him. God radically changed Jacob’s life from that day on and surrounded him with new friends and eventually brought him into a group of Christian students who knew and loved Christ. It was at a local youth pastors house by the name of John Keir that Jacob fell in love with studying God’s word and spending time with other believers. When he was 16 years old Jacob went on a mission trip to Mexico with that group of students and it was during that time that he felt the overwhelming call of God to serve Him in a life of ministry. That has been Jacob’s primary pursuit ever since. God has been very faithful to Jacob throughout the years and has blessed him with a wonderful family and a ministry of proclaiming and defending God’s truth.
Jacob holds a B.A. in Religion and Apologetics from Luther Rice University (www.lru.edu) and is now working on an M.A. in Biblical Studies from Piedmont Baptist Graduate School (www.pbc.edu) and an M.A. in Worldview Studies from Baptist Bible College (www.bbc.edu). In addition to this Jacob has also completed Apologetics certification with Biola University and Frank Turek’s Cross-Examined Instructor Academy. Jacob is a Certified Apologetics Instructor for the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (www.4truth.net) and is a writer for the Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry (www.carm.org).
In addition to Christian apologetics Jacob is also a passionate advocate for adoption, helping the poor by meeting their physical needs and reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus through missions.