After joining the staff in 2011 as Pastor of Students, Blake was called to serve Waller Baptist Church as Senior Pastor in 2016. He has been in pastoral ministry since 1987, when at a youth camp in Mobile, Alabama he felt God calling him to be a pastor. Before coming to Waller, Blake served as a Church Planter with New Vision Baptist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee and before that as the Next Generation Pastor at Colonial Baptist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas. Blake earned his Masters in Religious Education degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1991. He and his wife Rebecca have been married since 1994 and have four beautiful daughters, Samantha, Sydnie, Sara, and Shae.