[1] The elder Lawrence was also a recording studio executive who employed a young Bruce Springsteen, and music promoter, and his son worked as security for acts like David Bowie.

"[4] His ambitions to become a doctor frustrated by his partying and womanizing, he left UVA and spent part of 1979 and all of 1980 working as an EMT and paramedic in Richmond and at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

[5] Lawrence has said that he received his call to ministry while working as a paramedic: One night I was in the back of an ambulance attending to a woman who was a drug addict and a prostitute.

[2]Lawrence finished his undergraduate degree in emergency medicine at Central Washington University,[3] then enrolled in Virginia Theological Seminary, where he earned his M.Div.

[6] In 1995, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit called the Terumah Foundation raised funds to purchase land and construct a 27,000-square-foot facility on Merriman Road in southwest Roanoke County.

[6] In 2000, early in the process of the Anglican realignment, Bishop Neff Powell deposed Lawrence and ejected CHS from the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

Lawrence was elected suffragan bishop for PEARUSA's Atlantic coast network, where he would assist Steve Breedlove with care for clergy in the region.

In 2016, Lawrence and CHS transitioned from PEARUSA to the newly constituted Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope, ending the dual canonical residency in the ACNA and Rwanda.

After Todd Atkinson took a leave of absence and was later inhibited over charges of abuse of spiritual authority, Lawrence was in October 2021 appointed interim bishop for Via Apostolica.