About Brett
As a pastor’s kid, I grew up in the church world and felt a call to ministry at a young age. I jumped into full time ministry in 2005 and am an ordained reverend by the Church of God (Anderson). I was a student pastor & a nextgen pastor for the next 11+ years before jumping in to a new adventure with Orange and Orange Students.
I spent 6 & a half years as a Student Orange specialist, coaching & consulting with Student Pastors & churches all over the globe. At the start of 2022, I began a new journey with Orange as the VP of Staff Culture & Development to support our staff, develop systems that help us live our values as an organization & facilitate employee development, engagement & experience.
In addition to my role at Orange, I still love speaking to students, helping train & develop leaders and volunteer in the middle school ministry at my church.
My wife, Courtney, & I have been married since 2004 & we have three amazing & hilarious kids who constantly keep us busy & laughing. I love baseball, playing golf & I make amazing turkey melt sandwiches (if I have the time and ingredients, otherwise they’re just average). I also embarked in a scary new adventure a couple of years ago of releasing original music that I write about & share on this page.
My passions in ministry are…
helping teenagers develop their own authentic faith in the midst of safe community,
helping small group leaders build those kinds of communities
helping ministry leaders build those kinds of ministries.
This is me & my family in front of the Millennium Falcon when we went to Disney in the fall of 2020!
Such an honor & privilege to work with these awesome folks on the Orange Students team. It's also a blast being on a team with them.
We live in the ATL suburbs, but Courtney & I are both from Indiana. Here we are on a boat at sunset in Rochester, Indiana.
I love hosting the Rethinking Youth Ministry Podcast. Here we are recording episode 88 about having a youtube presence.
Did I mention that I love hosting the Rethinking Youth Ministry Podcast? Here's us recording episode 93 about the leadership skills we need to have in ministry.
Leading a breakout about implementing the Orange strategy & Orange curriculum at Orange Tour 2018.
Orange Tour 2018 teaching some small group leaders during our Lead Small night.
Another shot from Orange Tour 2018 at Lead Small Night.
Golfing is pretty much my main hobby. Here's me probably missing a putt.
Screenshot of a teaching video I put together for a camp I was supposed to speak at this summer, which went all digital in the midst of Covid. This was way more fun & went over way better than I even thought it would.