A pastor-scholar walking with families through the long work of discipleship.

Bryan Barrineau has spent nearly two decades walking with Southern Baptist and local churches, students, and families through the long, ordinary work of discipleship. Today he serves as a family pastor at Fruit Cove Baptist Church in Florida, where he shepherds parents, students, and children's ministry leaders and equips SBC and local churches in special needs ministry training.

His path into ministry ran through the public-school classroom. A degree in Secondary Education from Clemson and years teaching history and geography gave him a deep conviction: the church can — and must — learn from how people actually grow, learn, and remember, including students with ADHD, dyslexia, and executive function differences.

That conviction was sharpened by a more personal calling. As the parent of a neurodiverse child, Bryan came to see disability ministry and inclusive discipleship not as specialty add-ons but as central to the church's witness. Hidden disabilities in the church — ADHD, dyslexia, autism, anxiety — now shape how he writes, preaches, trains volunteers, and coaches church and SBC leaders.

His doctoral research at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary brought all of this together — examining how local churches and Southern Baptist ministries integrate digital tools into discipleship without losing the embodied, relational core of the gospel, and exploring how technology can serve students with learning disabilities.