Campus Minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UNCC – Brent grew up in Wilmington, NC as the son of a pastor. Ministry is something he was well acquainted with and is a major part of his story.

As an adolescent Brent grew into athletics slowly, finding books to be more interesting than footballs but eventually his twin brother coerced him into athletics. He found that he wasn’t a very good athlete but had a knack for hard work. Success was not a word that would have described his athletic career; he played football for 4 years and never once started a game. But his senior he was asked to run the 110m hurdles in Track and Field and found his niche. Within two months he broke his High School record and petitioned to become a preferred walk-on to UNC-W’s Division 1 Track and Field program. He began his career as a non-scholarship walk on and left as a scholarship athlete and Team Captain.

Brent majored in Finance at UNCW but college is when he truly found a personal relationship with the Lord and was the launching point for ministry with him. In the summer of his Junior year of college, after an important relationship in his life fell away, he found himself at a crossroads. It was that day, on the way to completing a suicide attempt, that he had a miraculous encounter with Jesus and began an authentic relationship with him.

The next two years are when Brent began to deeply pursue his relationship with God and do work in Racial Reconciliation. UNC-W was a school that was 91% White when he got there. He found that there were not any campus ministries or organizations interested in pursuing his primarily Black teammates with the message of the Gospel. The love of Jesus Christ and his desire to see his friends transformed started him on a path of growing in compassion and forgiveness in reconciliation and lit the spark for lifelong ministry.

Now Brent is the Campus Minister at UNC Charlotte with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship where he spends most of his days discipling students, reaching out to non-Christians and exposing students to the joy of belonging to Christ and following the Holy Spirit into the world to tell the greatest story ever told, of which they are a part.