Dan serves as the Canon for Church Planting for the Anglican Church in North America and the Executive Director of Always Forward. His purpose as the Archbishop’s Canon is to create a strong church planting movement that multiplies healthy churches and healthy church planters. Dan has a long history in church planting, helping church planters and church plants as a friend, trainer, and coach for almost 20 years. He has planted two churches as the Lead Planter—one in greater Atlanta, Georgia, and one in the Ft. Bragg area near Fayetteville, North Carolina. Dan is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, earned his Masters from Trinity School for Ministry, and his D.Min. from Asbury Theological Seminary with a church planting concentration. Alongside his work for the Province, he also currently serves as the Canon for Church Planting for the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope and the Sr. Associate Rector of Church of the Redeemer at New Garden Park in North Carolina. Dan is married to Karen, and they have two young sons.