Chad's story
Chad spent more than fifteen years leading manufacturing and distribution operations, eventually directing teams of more than thirty people and operating budgets approaching $40 million. It was a season that taught him how to see systems clearly: how the right adjustment in the right place can change everything downstream.
Then his path shifted. In 2009, a season of reckoning led him into recovery ministry. Leaders in the church he attended began to see something in Chad that the church needed: a redemption story and a set of leadership gifts ready to be put to use. Over the next two years, he taught and facilitated small groups, discipled groups of businessmen, spoke at men's retreats, and served as a lay pastor in the church's recovery ministry.
That growing sense of calling became full-time in 2011, when he joined the church's executive leadership team and was called to launch its multisite ministry. From there, Chad served in senior leadership at churches ranging from 200 to 2,500 members, planted and pastored a church of his own, and led church-planting and multiplication initiatives, helping congregations move from attractional models to cultures built on disciple-making and church planting.
In 2018, he became Lead Pastor and Executive Director of North Rock Hill Church. He and his wife Tanisha moved to Rock Hill, SC that year, where they and their daughter Ava still reside. Their other children, Christopher, Carrington, Madeline, and Kendal, are grown: three daughters and their husbands live in South Carolina, and their son lives in northeast Louisiana. As Chad puts it: God has done amazing things to make them a family, and to keep them one.
In 2014, Chad began to be invited into consulting and coaching relationships, where his operational discipline and pastoral discernment come together to help kingdom-minded leaders name reality correctly and see the potential where they used to only see problems.
God had been narrowing Chad's focus and giving him new awareness of where he was most impactful and needed. He began to sense it was time for what he had done alongside his ministry to become his full-time work, and in October 2026, he made that move. He is excited to come alongside kingdom-minded leaders in churches, nonprofits, and businesses.
