You probably don't know me. Thats why I thought I would make my first blog one that tells you (the redaer) somethings about my life. I just haven't decided whether to start with the present and go back or start with the past and come forward. Let's see...
OK. I'll start with the present time and go backwards. I'm married to this smokin hot lady, who by the way is due to give birth to our little girl on September 30, 2009!! I currently am living in Taylorville, a town of about 12,000 people or so. I would kind of rather be in a bigger city area...but this is where we are right now and this is where i know that God wants us for now. We are helping to start a faith community about 15 miles away from here in Pana...an even smaller town of about 2,000. I work in the design business of a good friend of mine. Thus, I spend a great deal of my time with this friend talking about faith, God, culture, phsycology, philosophy, and just about anything else you can think of. I am currently seeking other employment, although a new job would take away more time from the process of starting of this faith community, which I don't really want but it'll all work out. That pretty much sums up the present...lets take a blast to the past now.
Before we came here to Taylorville we lived in Springfield, MO. There we spent time under the leadership of Tommy Sparger and the North Point team. At North Point we served in the Student Ministry and mentored some of the coolest students on the planet. Our time in Springfield also consisted of some time at Baptist Bible College...a very short time of three semesters. Thats about all that I could handle there...I now self educate and plan to finish the degree elsewhere at some point.
I originate from a very small town in Indiana...I hated growing up in the middle of nowhere, a place where the closest Wal-mart is 30-45 minutes away. It helped shape who I am today though. I grew up being bored most of the time and found myself in my teenage years getting invlolved in drugs and alcohol. I came out of that about three years ago when I felt deep inside me that God was calling me to the "abundant life". I felt that there was and is something better to life than all the drugs. This revelation came to me as I sat in a jail cell evaluating my life and wishing that I had not gotten in the car and driven home from the party completely wasted. I got halfway home anyway...hit the ditch and the polic were there before I knew it. Never the less, those mistakes all got me where I am today and are all a part of who I am today. Well thats the long and short of me. Not much to brag about, its just who I am and was created to be.
