Eric comes to BCSNOVA with many years of experience pastoring, counseling, and preaching the gospel to people from diverse cultures and belief systems.  He has walked with people suffering through a variety of trauma, trials, and circumstances.  He performed duties in biblical counseling for chapel ministry at a homeless shelter and has provided training and biblical counseling in a residential home for orphans and at-risk children and teens.  He has counseled those struggling with addiction. Eric has also been blessed with the opportunity to provide couples with premarital and marital biblical counseling.  

Most recently, Eric served for more than thirteen years as a missionary in China.  Prior to that, he spent a year in Tennessee on a college campus and a year with ‘Youth on Mission’ in New Zealand. Eric excels at church planting, leading, teaching, training, and equipping pastors to church plant.  He loves teaching on prayer and evangelism, leading discipleship groups and he especially enjoys Seeker Small Groups that allow him to come alongside people wrestling with spiritual questions or the existence of God.

With an undergraduate degree in mathematics, Eric began his career working for several years as a middle and high school math teacher at a Christian school where he also coached basketball and baseball.  Later, Eric went on to receive a Master of Christian Studies at Union University in 2014, followed by a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in 2021.  Eric is currently continuing his educational training finishing his counseling certification with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.

Eric is blessed to be the husband of Katie for almost 20 years.  They have five children and reside in Loudoun County, Virginia. Being educated in child and adolescent development, adoption training, and working with orphans, Eric and his wife Katie had the wonderful opportunity to adopt themselves. Currently, one of Eric’s favorite verses is Psalm 112:6-7 “For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.  He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.”