Jeff is the son of a Tennessee Southern Baptist minister, which basically means he was attending church nine months before he was born. He grew up in a Bible-believing home that loved the Lord, and at the age of seven, he committed his life to Jesus Christ. Jeff has been the worship leader at Bethel Baptist Church in Greenfield, Tennessee, for over twenty-five years; he was instrumental in transforming the morning corporate worship from traditional to contemporary-style while maintaining the integrity of focus on God in song and praise. He also is an ordained deacon and teaches a Sunday school class. He is recently retired from a family-owned wholesale produce distributor called Akin and Porter Produce, where he was involved as the chief operations officer. Jeff is serving in his tenth year at his alma mater, Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, as trustee and is the lead director on the board of directors of Bank3 in Memphis, Tennessee. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting and St. Louis Cardinal Baseball. He has been married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Tammy, for over thirty-five years, and they have four children and twelve grandchildren (and counting), all of whom he is madly in love with. Jeff says, "I want to be intentional about my service to Jesus in all I do! God is faithful, and I'm forgiven; what else it there?"