Chip joined the Good Works community in the summer of 2007. His connection to Good Works started with a presentation Keith gave during a class at seminary.  While attending Asbury Theological Seminary, he worshipped with The Rock/La Roca UMC community in Lexington, Kentucky. While participating at The Rock/La Roca, Chip served in the areas of prayer ministry, the food and clothing pantry, neighborhood visitation and youth ministry.

  In 2006, he graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary. After graduation, he served on the staff of The Rock Church/La Roca - coordinating their prayer ministry and working with the poor in the neighborhood for one year.

  Chip sees his work through GW H&P as a venue used by God to provide lessons about compassion, mercy and God’s faithfulness.  These lessons often include an expression of God desiring neighbors work together to address the needs of its members.  God’s desire for corporate response to a problem has been demonstrated when several local churches met the need for assistance expressed by a family or homebound adult.  Lessons in faithfulness have been expressed when all assistance has been exhausted and at the last minute the need is met.  Chip believes that God is using these lessons and their related experiences to deepen his love for people while challenging existing ideas of how to approach a call for assistance.

  God often uses time in the outdoors and people from different parts of the body of Christ, to teach Chip.  The way God demonstrates grace and answers prayer through everyday people continues to amaze him. He believes that God calls all of us to social holiness and personal intimacy with God.  Chip hopes to work with congregations and neighborhoods in ways that build each other up through mutual partnerships, providing examples of asset based approaches to caring for all community members.  Although he is unsure of the ways in which this unfolds or where it will lead, he trusts that God’s preparations are enough to illustrate Jesus’ statement “the kingdom of God is here.” 
In July 2011 Chip married Kristina Jetter. They were acquaintances at Asbury but met up again when she came to Athens as a graduate student in the department of applied linguistics. Currently, Kristina is an adjunct with an intensive English as a Second Language program through Ohio University’s department of linguistics.

 Chip has written this article about the Body of Christ.