How I Got Here

If I had asked for directions and followed them, they would have been as follows...

Start with 18 years of conservative, evangelical, country church which runs parallel with a disjointed family with a history of emotional and sexual abuse...

Spend the last of those two years with a life-giving, dynamic, messy band of teenagers who love Jesus...

Take four years of conservative, evangelical seminary with an emphasis in youth ministry...

Get married and turn onto youth ministry with professionally focused, upper-middle class church..

Take the off ramp to getting fired and divorced...

Break down...

Take the back road by loading trucks for a living...

Start part-time work with teenagers in a small town church...

Stumble into a relationship with a remarkable woman and marry her...

Take the onramp to student ministry in a large purpose driven church...

Steer into leading a youth church with punk/indie kids...

Help create and begin to raise three dangerous and beautiful children...

Take a left into a former church growth model church transitioning into a missional, emerging conversational faith community...

Come full circle leading a small, rural, aging traditional church...

Set your cruise on pastoring one site of a multi-site church and hope to stay on that for the long stretch...