Prior to coming to FBC Coppell, Clayton led the Single Adult Ministry at Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, California. At that time, Saddleback's Single Adult Ministry included over 13,000 single adults in the greater Los Angeles area. Prior to that, he was a pastor at Fielder Road Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Clayton earned his Bachelor's degree from Midwestern State University in 1998 and a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2004. Clayton and his wife, Allison, have five children, Ella, Karis, Tatum, Tyler, and Annabelle!

We, the members who are First Baptist Church Coppell, Texas, will CONNECT with one another and our community, GROW in our relationship with God and others, SERVE one another with the love of Christ, SHARE that same love with the world personally, locally, and globally, and HONOR our Heavenly Father by the way we live our lives