Ronnie Carter has been a Bible teacher in his church for fifty years. He is currently the part-time pastor of Shawmut Christian Church and a deacon of First Baptist Church of Shawmut in Valley, Alabama. He is a 1975 graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and worked for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for thirty-three years, beginning in the Bridge Design Section and ending as the Traffic Operations Engineer for the Baton Rouge District before retiring in 2008. He has been married to his wife and best friend Connie for fifty years, and they have two children, Ben and Jennie, and seven grandchildren: Caroline, Ella, Jack, Jenna, Addie, Lane, and Olivia. He is an artist, guitarist, and singer, and loves tennis, cycling, and pickleball.