For us, leadership is critical. We believe strongly in it and support those in leadership. Here, we attempt here to stay as close to the Bible as possible. To that end (and to summarize), we believe that God does use earthly leaders. We think that further than that, God chose to allow and place earthly leaders for the good of the community. Understand that we are separating elder leadership from normal leadership. We think the Bible demonstrates leadership this way: it is clearly present; it happens in a group setting; there is a one directing leader or visioning overall leader, but that person submits to the group in his/her leadership.

So for Numinous, we established a group of leaders, and we then empowered those leaders to actually lead. We call our leaders “elders.” For us, the title “elder” does not carry baggage or mythical undertones but rather is merely a word that was in vogue when the Bible was written. Even though we could have used other names, we chose “elder” as a nod to our ancient nature of our faith. What do they do? Well, we try to do exactly what the Bible teaches about leadership for the community, that the elders (as the Bible calls them) are to shepherd (protect, guide and feed) the flock. That is a simple rendition obviously, but it gets at it. While there are many leaders in Numinous, the elders though are in a different class. They have an overseeing role, mostly for the souls and well-being, for the group.

Carl E. Creasman Jr is the founder, the apostolic voice, the "senior pastor" of Numinous, Inc. A fourth generation pastor, Carl has been in active ministry for over 23 years. A Christian since age 7, Carl was active in church service in several areas including choirs, Bible drill, RA ministry, youth & college leadership. In college, Carl participated in various groups like Baptist Student Union, The Wesley Foundation, and Campus Crusade for Christ. After finishing his Masters of Arts in History from Auburn University, Carl worked with New Life Ministry in Raleigh, NC on a traveling evangelistic mission team whose primary focus was children. During this time, Carl ministered in Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina while completing his Masters of Divinity in 1992 from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Since Seminary, God has had Carl serving in various roles such as a traveling communicator, evangelist, retreat speaker and youth pastor. His gifting is in the area of communication and since the mid-1980s, Carl has continued to pursue this calling as a communicator for God via several avenues. His travel as a speaker has taken him from Seattle to North Carolina and New Mexico to the Northeast. One wonderful memory was preaching at a church in Concrab, Haiti while on a mission service trip. Carl also communicates via the written word and through music. As a musician and worship leader, Carl has participated in the release of 6 CDs, both with the worship band of Numinous and a band formed from within the ministry, Anodyne. Carl's writings are evident here on the site and in other self-published books. Finally, in keeping with his theological position of "blooming where you are planted," Carl continues to be involved in ministry opportunities around the Central Florida area with groups like Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Intervarsity and Baptist Campus Ministry. To that same end, Carl has been serving as a professor of History at Valencia Community College since 2002.