My hobbies are woodworking and learning the cello. I make American Native Flutes. I enjoy spending time with my family. Married on May 18, 1981 to Jean Smith of Raleigh, NC. She is a homemaker. Children: Chad, Chemist with Aerotech subcontracting at Duke Energy Chemistry Lab. Morgan is a Nursing Student at Gaston College.

Michael grew up in Knoxville, TN where he attended the University of Tennessee as a piano major.  God led him to California where he graduated from Golden Gate Seminary and then it was back to Tennessee where he served two churches.  For the past twenty-eight years Michael served as Minister of Music at Oakmont Baptist Church in Greenville, NC before retiring at the beginning of 2022.  Since then, he has been called on to help a number of churches with occasional worship leadership or his piano/cello playing.  Michael loves to give concerts of “Hymns and Their Stories,” a program of singing, playing and learning about the hymns of our faith.  He is married and has two adult children, one living in D.C. and the other in Chicago.  Some of those free weekends are now spent on the road.

Jewelry Making | Bible Study | Fort Caswell History Tours | Barn Quilts | Chrismon Christmas Ornament Making | Water Aerobics | Pickleball | Corn Hole | NCBAM workshops | Diamond Bookmark making | Choir