Joel Dison is a pastor and an engineer who loves to preach, teach , read, write, and hand-forge custom-made knives. Joel graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering degree and from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in 2011. He has been in lay and bi-vocational ministry at various churches for many years. Joel is married to Patty and has two adult children and one grandson