Rick Beam was born and grew up in northeast Mississippi.  He graduated from Ambassador College Big Sandy, Texas, in 1972, and was ordained into the ministry in 1975.  Since 1978, he has pastored congregations in the south, west and midwest.  He currently pastors congregations in Rome, (Georgia), Gadsden (Alabama) and Chattanooga (Tennessee). He resides with his wife, Angela, in Rome.