Elbert McGowan

Elbert is originally from Jackson, Mississippi. He left Jackson in order to attend college at Alabama A & M University (Huntsville, Alabama). He graduated from A & M with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After working with General Electric Aircraft Engines (Cincinnati, Ohio) for four years, he married his wife Karen and they moved back to Jackson so that he could attend Reformed Theological Seminary. While in Jackson, he served as an intern at Redeemer Church for three years and during his final year of seminary he began laboring at Jackson State University to start RUF. He and Karen have one daughter, Karis, who was born in July of 2006.