Dr. Sands uses selected lessons from his three-year minister preparation program to help those seeking to serve God’s people discern and navigate through their call to ministry. Dr. Sands exposes new ministers to the spiritual, psychological, and physical demands of a life in ministry in a way that is both engaging and challenging. Used as a guide with questions, exercises, and reflections, readers of this book now have a resource from which to grow, no matter their location. It’s a blessed beginning to living in service to God

Dr. Sands is an ordained Baptist minister of the Gospel who has devoted his life in ministry to the mentorship of new ministers who seek to serve God’s people genuinely. He is a dynamic teacher, theologian, and facilitator whose classes evoke truth, clarity, freedom, and understanding of the ministry’s role in the church and the obligation of ministers to God’s people and the Holy scripture. He earned his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse School of Religion in Atlanta, Georgia.