Pastoral Staff Bios
Carl D. Robbins
Senior Pastor
Carl is a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a graduate of Crichton College and Covenant Theological Seminary. He has served churches in South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Nevada, and has been serving as the Senior Pastor of WRPC since 2000. In addition, Carl has served on the boards of crisis pregnancy centers, Christian schools, and seminaries. He has spoken to college groups, medical school forums, state legislative groups, seminary chapels, and church conferences. His special passion is training pastors in developing countries, from Hungary and Bulgaria to Brazil and Peru. Carl and his wife Sandy were married in 1980 and are the parents of three, believing adult children: John, grandson Brayden Michael and granddaughters, Emmie Ruth and Maggie Grace (New York, NY); James and his wife Megen, grandsons Jack William and Joseph Carl, and granddaughter Lainey Janice (Hartsville, SC at Hartsville PCA); and Sarah and her husband Andrew Holmes and their son Joshua David along with daughter, Isla Faith (Charlotte, NC at Uptown Presbyterian). Carl and Sandy enjoy OU football and the beach....any beach, any time.
Dan Dodds
Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care & Counseling
Dan is a native of Detroit, Michigan; a graduate of Hillsdale College in Michigan and Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Dan has worked in the financial world as a CPA and controller, as well as in international business and sales. In 1995 Dan entered into the ministry in a Florida church as a Sr. High and Singles Pastor. In 2001 he was brought on staff at Woodruff Road. Dan and his wife Christy have two daughters, Anna and Jenna, and two sons, Will and Wyatt.
Scotty Anderson
Associate Pastor for Family Ministry
Scotty is a native of Santa Anna, Texas. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1994 and completed his Masters of Divinity at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 2005. Scotty’s Air Force service of eleven years included time as a Security Forces Officer, protecting nuclear weapons, and also instructing at Officer Training School before being called into pastoral ministry. Scotty started as an intern for WRPC in 2004 and began working full-time in 2005. He and his wife Kerry have been married since 1995 and are parents of three children, Clayton, Avery, and Grace.
Taylor King
Associate Pastor for Youth Ministry
Taylor has the great privilege of calling himself a native son of the most wonderful city nestled along the banks of the Mighty Mississippi: Memphis, Tennessee. After learning all there is to know about how to cook a pig in his family’s barbecue restaurant, he left home to apply himself to the subjects of History and Political Science at the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. While at university, he was converted to a saving faith in Christ, whereupon the Lord promptly placed a call to ministry on his heart thus leading him to study at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He and his beautiful bride, Julia, are the proud parents of four covenant children.
Dan Leach
Music Ministry Director
Dan Leach was born and raised in Hampton, Virginia. He graduated from Bob Jones University with degrees in music education (B.S.), church music (M.Mus.), and divinity (M.Div.). Dan previously served in Virginia for two and a half years in his home church as church music director and Christian school music teacher. Currently, he teaches music in Greenville County Schools. Dan and his wife Ying Xue were married in 2004 and have three lovely daughters, Christina, Abigail, and Eleanor.
