B. Parks and family have been church planters with Adventist Frontier Missions in the Middle East for over 10 years. He is an ordained SDA pastor, motivational speaker and author. He has a passion that the church reinvent itself to become again a lay led movement. Currently he is the "Global Chaplain" and coordinator for the Tentmaker ministry of Adventist Frontier Missions -- GoTential. He loves kids, gardening, and cooking. Painfully he learned a second language late in life recommends avoiding getting older if at all possible.