Our Staff

Pastor Joe Alain has been preaching and teaching for over thirty years. A native of Florida, Pastor Joe comes to Carrollwood from South Louisiana where he served as the Senior Pastor of Hebron Baptist Church, Denham Springs, and First Baptist Church of Port Allen. Joe employs an expositional style of preaching and teaching and the use of metaphor, humor, and probing questions is often seen in his sermons.

Pastor Matt Singleton is serving as our Student & Music Pastor. Matt grew up in the Tampa Bay area, and he and his family were a part of Bay Area Baptist Church before the merger with First Baptist Church of Carrollwood in 1994. While finishing his associate’s degree at Hillsborough Community College in 2013, Matt was invited to serve alongside our music and youth ministers as a ministerial intern. He was then ordained as a minister of the Gospel on September 21, 2014. Matt graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and later attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Christian Studies. Matt is married to Jennifer Singleton, and they have two beautiful daughters, Madison and Abigail.