Family: Wife, Gloria Hatfield Duncan - Children: Jennifer Renee Duncan Ruckner; Paul David Duncan; Andrea Kay Duncan Matthews. Grandchildren: Taylor Sean Ruckner; Hannah Marie Ruckner and Cameron James Matthews.

Birth: Austin, Texas, reared in Modesto, California

Education: Bachelor of Music Education - Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma 1964. Major: Voice, Minor: Piano

Master of Church Music - Southwestern Baptist Seminary, Fort Worth, TX, 1966

Vocal Performance Concentration

Continued private study in voice and organ ten years following formal training

Service: Full time Minister of Music since 1966 in churches in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina.

Joel is presently a member of the South Carolina Singing Churchmen and The CenturyMen of which he is a charter member. The CenturyMen group was founded in 1969. He traveled around the world and throughout the United States with the CenturyMen in concert. Joel is also involved in various missions projects around the world.