John Moore serves as the Secretary of our Board of Directors. He and his wife, Penny, have two teenage children, Julia, and Luke. Over the past 20 years, John has served in several church leadership roles, including Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Weekday Ministry, as well as Co-Chairing the 2020 Capital Campaign. He has also been involved in other charitable and community work, including serving on the Advisory Board of Stop Hunger Now and the Board of Shriners’ Hospital for Children in Shreveport, where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. John is a business and estate planning attorney. He has been selected as one of the Top 40 Leaders in Law by the Mississippi Business Journal and the Mississippi Bar has previously awarded him the Lawyer Citizenship Award for his charitable and community work. He earned a BA from Mercer University, MBA, and JD from Mississippi College, and LLM, with honors, from the University of Alabama. He is also a mediator, having received certification from the Program on Mediation at Harvard University. In 2012, John entered the Hospitality Industry with his participation in the development and opening of the Sleep Inn & Suites, in Gulfport, Mississippi. In 2016, he and his partner developed and opened Margaritaville Resort Biloxi.