Pastor Monte, senior pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Avon, IN, was saved as a boy in January of his 8th grade school year, where he attended Fourth Baptist Christian Day School in Minneapolis. By 9th grade, the Lord had called him to preach under the ministry of his youth pastor, Paul Fosmark. Pastor Monte graduated from Bob Jones University, with an undergraduate in Bible and New Testament Greek, as Summa Cum Laude, in 1989.