Pastor Pounds, a native Floridian, graduated from Florida A&M with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1987. He then enrolled at Harding University working in the graduate degree program towards a Master's degree of Divinity. Pastor Pounds has been the pastor of Hilltop Church of Christ in Winter Haven since June 2006. Prior to this, he was a minister at the Westside Church of Christ in Rockford, Illinois.