Rod serves as a Pastor at Firm Foundations. Before joining staff at his church, he served as the Executive Director of a not-for-profit Camp and Retreat Center in Illinois. He has spent all of his adult life serving with non-profits from church boards, to being a founding board member of a local free store ministry, and now serves as the President of the Centreville School Board. 

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When he's not at work or serving, he can be found searching for a good find at an antique store with his wife or spending time with his grown children and any of his 6 grandchildren