Bro. Joe Decker was saved a teenager in Louisville, KY. He was baptized at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, where later he served as an associate pastor for over four years. He then planted and pastored the Berean Baptist Church in Scottsville, KY, where he served for over six years. He then went to Grace Baptist Church in Bowling Green, KY, where he has served as an assistant pastor for almost nineteen years. Bro. Decker has worked with young people his whole ministry, working and speaking at summer camps and youth rallies for the last twenty-eight years. Bro. Decker and his wife, Denise, have five children. His oldest daughter and her husband are working on staff at Southwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, OK. His oldest son is pastor South Campbell Ave. Baptist Church in Springfield, MO. His middle daughter works on staff at Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City, OK.