Associate Pastor: Matthew & Stacy Drake

I am a husband of my wife of 19 years, father to four children – Taylor, Macayla, Arianna & Thalon.

Recently asked by Pastor Kevin Wallace to join the Leadership Team of First UPC of Jacksonville as the Associate Pastor – I am happy to be a part of the Revival in Jacksonville, NC.

I give honor to the Lord, who called me in 1991 to His saving Grace. I quickly accepted, was baptized in Marseilles France and later filled with the Holy Ghost while serving during Gulf War 1 in the USN.

I went on in the Lord, was married and my wife & I became the Youth Pastors serving under Rev. Kenny Marshburn in Lexington, NC.

We later moved to Madison, Indiana where we assisted in Ministry as Evangelism Pastor where we had two more children to complete the package of four wonderful children!

I am dedicated and committed to the Gospel and seeing the revival flames of the Holy Ghost burning intensely in every life we can affect…