Gordon grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey. He was drafted into the army in 1966 and went to West Germany for 18 months. He attended the University of Maryland extension division while in Germany. He graduated from Atlantic Community College in 1970. He trusted the Lord in January 1973.
Gordon married Patricia Carroll in May of 1974. Pat grew up in Haddonfield-Cherry Hill area of New Jersey and attended Catholic schools from 1954 through 1968, then onto a secular community college. Both graduated from the Ethnos360’s Missionary Training Program in 1980, going to Mexico as missionaries in 1982. They both worked at the missionary school for children for 2 years. Gordon was a teacher and Pat was the executive secretary for the school, and taught 4th grade English & high school business classes.
Then in 1985, Gordon and Pat moved into the Pima Tribe working two years with the Pima people in Sonora, Mexico. Due to health reasons, it became necessary for them to moved to Jackson, Michigan, where they served 33 years at the Ethnos360 Bible Institute. Gordon as a Bible teacher and Dean, and Pat as School Receptionist, Staff Secretary, Librarian, and Guest Room Hostess.
They moved to Sanford, FL in December of 2020. Gordon now works at the Ethnos360 Headquarter on the Biblical Resource Group. Pat is his assistant. Gordon’s passion for the clear teaching of the Word of God is the joy of his live and ministry here at Fellowship of the Way.