Christian and his family joined the Union church family in August of 2020. Pastor Christian has over 20 years of ministry experience, holds degrees in Church History (MA) and Theology (MA) from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Historical and Theological Studies (Union Presbyterian Seminary) where he completed his dissertation on the life and thought of Jonathan Edwards. Furthermore, he has served in the US Army (reserves) as both an enlisted soldier and a chaplain as well as a chaplain for the Kenyan Olympic Team. He has had the opportunity to study as a visiting student at Harvard Divinity School and presented at Queen's College, Oxford. He is ordained in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, serves as an online adjunct professor in Biblical Theology at Crown College, and has taught at the Baptist School of theology Novi Sad (Serbia). Christian and his wife Melissa have three children and are ecstatic to return to New England.