Aaron O'Kelley grew up in northeast Texas, graduated from East Texas Baptist University, and then went on to earn a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Aaron serves as the director of Southern Seminary's Jackson extension center, and he is also a vocational elder at Cornerstone Community Church in Jackson (TN). He and his wife Joni have three children: Benjamin, Ethan, and Anna.