Personal Information
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1

Birth date:  August 16, 1960 Married to Rosa Michele Wolfley on May 21, 1983 – (28 years) Bachelor of Science, Secondary Education (Physics & Mathematics) Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1984 Children: Miriam Rachele Boone (26) [Married to Nate Boone 5/08]; Hannah Grace [Married to Tyler Brown 5/11] (24); Lottie Ruth (23); Malachi Joe (21); Jerusha Michele (18); Samuel Gerald (17); Glory Beatrice (15); Erica Dawn (14); Amy Hope (12); Aaliyah Marie (11); Annie Lydia (11); Joe and Rosa have homeschooled for 20 plus years as well as having some of their children attend public schools at different times. Miriam, Hannah, and Lottie attended The Master’s College. Lottie is in the nursing program at OU Tulsa. Malachi is a student/athlete at The University of Tulsa.Licensed to the Ministry by the First Baptist Church, Spiro, OK, 1979Ordained to the Ministry by the First Baptist Church, Spiro, OK, 1983

Priorities
“This one thing I  do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” – Philippians 3:13-14

The passion of my life is to know Christ and to make Him known. I truly believe His lovingkindness is better than life. The ministry of preaching is the main means by which I minister to the body of Christ. I preach God’s Word with the aim that it will both illumine the mind so that God might be known more clearly for who He has revealed Himself to be; and to inflame the affections so there might be an increasing passion for the fame of His Name. Sound thinking should provoke deep feelings and deep feelings should motivate sound thinking. However, high and great our view of God, He is still greater.  As a pastor, I share the responsibility to keep lifting up the view of God before the people through the preached and lived Word. I believe God’s glory is the ultimate purpose of all of life.  God’s glory is the theme of all of the Scripture and the passion of God Himself.  His glory is most revealed in His act of redeeming a people through the atoning work of Christ. Too much of the church has fallen or drifted into a man-centered viewpoint that makes God little more than a means to some other end.  He will not be the means to an end.  He is the end.  I am convinced that there is no greater protection to a church and no greater encouragement to a people and no greater motivation to missions and evangelism, and no greater joy enhancer than an ever-increasing view of God. I am persuaded that love for God manifests itself in love for people (especially “the least of these”). I count it a joy to lead our church family in the pursuit of the demonstrations of love that might open the door to the declaration of the truth in the lives of the people God gives us to love. None of us are loving enough and as a church family we must be encouraging and challenging one another to ever increasing levels of love to God and love for others.Those who recognize that they have received mercy from God are the ones who show mercy to one another within the church family and those who will be quick to offer mercy to people from every race and class and background of people. I want to be known as a “mercy giver” as the overflow of having been mercied so enormously by Jesus Christ.

Honors & Activities
It is “God who works in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure” – Philippians 2:13

• Sent out in fall of 2001 to help begin Springs of Grace Bible Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Established an intern program (with intense biblical instruction and opportunities and experience in ministry, including cross-cultural and inner city ministry) at Springs of Grace that has grown from three college students in 2003 to six in 2004 to nine in 2005 and to 13 in 2006 and 25 in 2010
• Led out in the beginning of Grace Church of Collin County with 4 other families in 1991
• Developed a commitment and practice of training men for the ministry through regular classes on theology, pastoral ministry, hermeneutics and preaching (resulting in several men going into the ministry as pastors and missionaries; as well as the planting of a church in East Texas – Grace Church of Van Zandt County)
• Developed, administered and taught a Physical Education Class for homeschooled students in McKinney, TX, 1992-2001
• Began and administered a pastoral intern program at First Baptist Church, Prosper, TX, 1989-1991
• Began directed and participated in Challenge Week (youth church camp) with churches attending from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Tennessee, 1990-2001
• Administered a youth Sunday School Program at Eastwood Baptist Church with over 50 adult workers and over 500 enrollment
• Organized and developed a youth intern program at Eastwood Baptist Church training nearly two dozen young men and women to pursue passionately the supremacy of God in His calling for their lives
• Developed and administered a Preacher Training/Pulpit Supply program at Eastwood Baptist Church (seeing over 20 men surrender to the ministry and go through monthly training and provided free pulpit supply to over 50 churches)
• Organized and directed Faith Week Youth Camp (1983 – 1988)
• 2 year starting Defensive End at the University of Tulsa Football Team; 3 year letterman (1980-1982) Named to the Missouri Valley Academic All-Conference 1st Team in 1982

Education
“…what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?” – 1 Corinthians 4:7

• Master of Divinity, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 1990
• Bachelor of Science, Business Finance Major/Communications Minor, Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK, 1981
• Other: Post graduate work, Education emphasis, Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK, 1982
• Attended multiple Shepherd’s Conferences through Grace Community Church and the Master’s Seminary, 1988-2007
• Attended Bethlehem Baptist Pastor’s Conference with John Piper, 2000

Ministerial Experience
“Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood” – Acts 20:28

• Pastor, Springs of Grace Bible Church, Tulsa, OK 2002-currently
• Pastor, Grace Church of Collin County, Melissa, TX, 1991-2001
• Pastor, First Baptist Church, Prosper, TX, 1989-1991
• Minister to Youth, Eastwood Baptist Church, Tulsa, OK, 1983-1989
• Minister to Youth, Vian Baptist Church, Vian, OK, 1982
• Assistant Chaplain, Eastwood High School, Tulsa, OK, 1982
• President of Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK, 1981-1982

Additional Professional Activities
“I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” – 1 Corinthians 9:22

• Preaching at Bible Conferences, Camps in the United States, England, Mexico, and Poland, 1982-Currently
• Team Sales Representative, Midwest Sporting Goods, Tulsa, OK, a means of God’s provision for family during the early days of church start, 2001-currently
• Teaching and developing curriculum for the Preacher School, Springs of Grace Baptist Church, Shreveport, LA, 1998-2000 and Springs of Grace Bible Church, Tulsa, OK 2002-currently
• Teaching P.E. Class for Homeschoolers, McKinney, TX, 1992-2001
• Volunteer coaching of sport teams in Oklahoma and Texas, 1983-2009
• Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for NOAH Football program, 2004-present and NOAH Varsity Girls Basketball program, 2008-present

Joe pastors Springs of Grace Bible Church. The church is involved in lots of ministries but is about one thing exclusively and Springs of Grace Bible Church is about this because God is about this. If you read the Bible looking for the purpose or mind of God behind why He does what He does you will find one consistent purpose. In fact, every place God makes clear the ultimate reason for why He is doing what He is doing it is always and without exception for His glory or for His name.From beginning to end, the driving impulse of God’s heart – the great treasure of God is God and His own great glory. From creation to consummation, His ultimate allegiance is to Himself. His unwavering purpose in all He does is to exalt the honor of His name and to be marveled at for His grace and power. He is infinitely jealous for His reputation. “For My own sake, for My own sake I act,” says the Lord. “My glory I will not give to another!”Springs of Grace Bible Church is on a mission to make His glory seen. The church is passionate about ministry to families and passionate about ministry in the inner city and passionate about ministry to the needy but believes that changing people through a social program that doesn’t get them to behold the glory of the Lord; or changing the lives of children through adoption without getting them to behold the glory of the Lord; or to discover a method of changing the lives of families in the inner city without seeing the glory of the Lord would not produce what God wants – glory seeing driven change. God wants the kind of change that comes from beholding the glory of God and that is what Springs of Grace Bible Church seeks to be about.