Dustin Ray grew up in the Springfield area, attending Nixa, Parkview, and Rogersville schools, as well as graduating from Evangel University, where he met and married his godly bride, Debbie. After graduating from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, he and Debbie returned to Springfield to begin pastoral ministry. Dustin has pastored in Southwest MO since 2017, and he looks forward to this new chapter of planting in Springfield, MO.