Dr. Jessica Neely and Rev. Casey Neely are a seasoned pastoral team with decades of combined experience launching, revitalizing, and multiplying Christ‑centered ministries. United by a shared calling to help people know Jesus Christ and become disciples, they have served together across churches, nonprofits, and college ministry settings, consistently bringing spiritual vitality, organizational clarity, and a heart for raising up new leaders. 

Beginning in 2001, Casey and Jessica have partnered together to lead churches.  They helped launch the first additional campus of Grace Church in Ft. Myers, FL, and led River of Life UMC, a 10-year-old church plant in Jacksonville, FL. Both of these grew into vibrant congregations growing in numbers and impact in the community. 

In 2015, as Jessica finished her PhD in Organizational Leadership, they felt led by God to move to Wilmore, KY where Jessica became an adjunct professor at Asbury University teaching Christian ministry. Over the past 7 years, they have partnered together as pastors to college students at UK and KSU at the Wesley Foundations. Their shared ministry is marked by a commitment to relational ministry, biblical teaching, Spirit‑led innovation, discipleship, and developing Christian leaders.

In addition to her PhD in Leadership, Jessica has a Masters in Counseling and Masters in Christian Education from Asbury Seminary and Casey has a Masters in Divinity from Asbury. Casey also has a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University extension school. 

Married for 27 years, they are partners in life and ministry. They have two daughters: Emma, a medical student at the University of Kentucky, and Megan, who will begin a business degree at Asbury University this fall.  In their free time, Jessica and Casey love being outside in God’s creation doing things like boating and hiking. They are big football fans and cheer for the Florida Gators, Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys. 

Most important of all they are followers of Jesus and feel blessed every day to be loved, saved and transformed by Him! Their passion is that everyone would experience that blessing of knowing and growing in Jesus.