Our Pastor and His Family

Ordained to the ministry in 1982, Pastor Terry has devoted more than four decades to the faithful study, teaching, and proclamation of God's Word.

Pastor Terry began his pastoral ministry in Carrollton, Georgia, where he faithfully shepherded a congregation for twenty-one years. Following that season of ministry, he was called to Charleston, South Carolina, where he continued serving God's people as pastor.

After completing his work in Charleston, Pastor Terry sensed God's direction to relocate to Toccoa, Georgia, without knowing the purpose. In simple faith and obedience, he waited. For fifteen years he remained there, trusting God's timing until the Lord revealed His plan. God then instructed him to gather His children into a new fellowship that would become Lifepointe Church, a ministry dedicated to the faithful teaching of Scripture and wholehearted worship of God.

In June 2022, Pastor Terry married his wife, Noemi. Their marriage followed a season of profound loss after the passing of his first wife of forty-five years, who courageously battled cancer before entering into rest in 2018.  Prior to his wife's passing, Pastor Terry lost his daughter to an illness associated with Crohn's disease and Sepsis in 2016. Through both sorrow and joy, Pastor Terry has experienced God's sustaining grace firsthand, strengthening his compassion and deepening his desire to minister to others.

Today, Pastor Terry continues to preach, teach, write, and serve as the pastor of Lifepointe Church and his wife Noemi, being an accomplished violinist serves on the worship team.. He is also the author of the "According to God" book series, a collection of Bible study companions dedicated to presenting biblical truth by allowing Scripture to speak for itself. His lifelong mission is to encourage believers to know God more deeply through His Word and to faithfully follow wherever He leads.