Pastor Ray was born on August 21, 1948 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and went to high school at Pen Argyl High School. During his high school career, he became the first person in the history of his high school to make both All-State Band and All-State Choir.

He made All-State Band on Baritone Sax and All-State Choir as a vocal baritone. He was also involved in football, track and theater, playing the leading role in his senior play. After high school, he attended the University Of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, where he continued his musical and athletic background with a football scholarship and an academic scholarship at the university. He was also involved in U of E's A Capella Choir during most of his stay at the university, and he also continued to play the baritone sax until his sophomore year, when an attack of Bell’s Palsey took away his ability to play wind instruments. After recovering, he took up guitar, and played acoustic guitar through most of his college career and later ministry. Eventually, he would return to piano, organ and portable keyboard, which he had learned to play early in his youth.

During his time at the university, he wrote and produced a contemporary Christian play called "This Child", based on the story of the Nativity, which was presented at Shanklin Theater. The United Methodist Church would later ask him to take the play across campuses in the US.

After graduation from the university, he worked in the Evansville area for a number of years. A job opportunity spurred a move to Jasper, Indiana, where he and his family lived for quite some time. Eventually, ministry activities would bring them to the Jeffersonville area.

He is 5' 11" tall, and weighs in at about 250, although you would never guess his weight or his age accurately. He thinks and acts like a 30-year-old business executive and pastor. He is fair-skinned, with dark and slightly graying hair. His pastoral credentials are through the Ephesians 4 Network and the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. HeI has five children of his own : Carmen, Robert, Melanie, Benjamin and Emily. Carmen is a Social Worker, Robert a Purchasing Agent for Artec in Jasper, IN, Melanie a department manager for a grocery chain and Ben and Emily both work for an Indianapolis banking chain.

He is the President and Founder of the Ephesians 4 Center for Learning, where he concentrates his efforts. If you would like to know more, please feel free to read his Personal Testimony, his Ministry Resume, or his Professional Resume.

Vice President of The Ephesians 4 Center for Learning

Co-Pastor Beverly Young

Beverly was born on December 5, 1950 in Evansville, Indiana. She was raised in Evansville, and attended Central High School and Ivy Tech Business College. After high school, she married and moved to the Huntingburg area. That marriage eventually ended, and she moved to the Jasper, Indiana area, where she continued to work as a single mother with two daughters. Pastor Ray met Beverly at a church in the Jasper area.

They eventually married, and have worked hand-in-hand in the ministry since then. She is very much the Proverbs 31 Woman, and Pastor Ray is very grateful for her faithfulness and constancy down through the years. She sings well, and has a soprano voice. She is 5' 4", and her weight is, like that of most women, an unpublished matter. She has blonde hair and Pastor Ray has often been reminded that she is clearly much better looking than him. She also has a special gift for ministering to hurting women, since she lost a 17-year old daughter some years ago.

She is a wonderful cook and hostess, which may account for some of Pastor Ray's weight, and moves with a special grace in unfamiliar circumstances. She is also a marvelous decorator, and has a gift for turning nothing at all into something special when it comes to furnishings. She shares Pastor Ray's commitment to the ministry and has been his Co-Pastor and helpmeet since the Cornerstone years. Beverly has one living daughter, Kathy, and two grandchildren, Angelica and Jennifer. They consider all of their children to be acquired, rather than step children. Beverly helped Pastor Ray raise his two youngest children, and they both help with the granddaughters, who love to be with them as often as possible. Beverly has a wonderful healing anointing and concentrates on ministry and maintaining their household.