Greg was not raised in a Christian home but encountered Jesus in June 2002 after hearing the gospel at Young Life’s Malibu Club Camp. His passion for the Lord grew at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Tar Heels!) where he was a volunteer Young Life leader and Religious Studies major. Other formative experiences in college include living three years at “Mrs. D’s house” with other Young Life leaders; working as a volunteer at Young Life’s summer camps four summers in a row; and discovering the doctrines of grace through the sermons and writings of John Piper, Tim Keller, J.I. Packer, and James Montgomery Boice.

Following college, he was on staff for two and a half years at and The Falls Church, a historic (founded 1734) Reformed Anglican Church in Northern Virginia, first as a Falls Church Fellow, then Study Assistant to the Rev. Dr. John Yates, and over a summer stint as a pastoral intern during seminary. Over those years he experienced deep discipleship and a rich community of friendships, which have continued through the years.

In 2009 during in his first year at Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando, FL), Greg met and fell in love with his wife. Following graduation from RTS with an MDiv in 2012, Greg and Christie moved to England (just West of London) for him to work as a personal assistant for  Greg Livingstone, the founder of Frontiers Missions—the largest missions organization in the world to unreached Muslim peoples. They then moved to Cambridge for three and a half years for Greg to complete a PhD in Church history.

Following Greg’s PhD studies, the Salazar family moved to Grand Rapids where Greg served as full-time professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. During his time at PRTS he served as an Associate Pastor at Trinity Church (PCA), before sensing a call to full-time pastoral ministry and accepting a call to serve as the Senior Pastor of a PCA church in the Savannah, GA area.

Greg has served as a Guest Lecturer at Reformed Theological Seminary and written for various ministries including Desiring God, Tabletalk, and The Gospel Coalition’s Themelios. He is the Founder and President of the James Fellowship, a non-profit (501c3) ministry that serves the Church by establishing intensive discipleship groups in local churches for men recovering from sexual addiction.

Christie is a  homemaker, and mother of five, who is also a certified birth and postpartum doula. They have five children—Catie-Claire (13), John (11), James (7), William (4), and Ellie-Grace (1). They first had a sense that God might call them to church planting 12 years ago and are overjoyed that God has called them back to Greg’s home state to plant Christ Our King.

Christie loves to cook and is an avid reader. Greg loves to take his boys golfing. Greg and Christie are both “foodies,” and believe date nights are best enjoyed trying a new hot spot. They are avid lovers of British culture (including most British desserts, fictional stories, and Masterpiece classic shows), college football and basketball, the PGA Tour, and spending time with their family and their goldendoodle “Honey.”

Greg’s greatest passion is to people enter into personal relationship with Jesus Christ and experience the transforming and renewing power of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. For more resources by Greg check out his website GodwardGod.com and follow him on Twitter: @GregASalazar.