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The Basics

Family:
My wife Rachel; daughter Amanda and her husband Matt, stationed with the USMC in NC, along with our first grandchild, Makayla; son Eric, serving in the USMC, stationed in NC; son, Ian, a sophomore in High School.

Hometown:
Davison, Michigan

Education:

BA in Psychology and English from Concordia, Ann Arbor (1983)
MDiv from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (1987)
MS in Marriage & Family Therapy from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (1998)

At CTK since:
since August, 2001

Responsibilities:
Vision, Worship, Human Care, Administration and Staff Leadership

Currently
Playing on my ipod or stereo:
“God of This City” by Chris Tomlin; Pretty much anything by Chris Tomlin, Mercy Me, and Casting Crowns

Books on my nightstand:
The Sacred Echo by Margaret Feinberg; Fearless by Max Lucado; The Healing Reawakening by Francis MacNutt

TV shows on my recorder:
NCIS; NCIS Los Angeles; America’s Got Talent; Lost

Favorites
Bible Verses:

He will keep in perfect peace the mind that is stayed on Him. - Isaiah 26:3

For God so loved the world, that He sent His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. - John 3:16-17

Quotation:
“Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?” from the eulogy for Robert Kennedy by his brother, Ted

Movies:
The Wizard of Oz and other classics; love action movies!

Things to do on my day off:
Family time, movies, swim

Thing most people don’t know about me:
I was an exchange student during high school to what was then West Germany; I served as the water boy for my father’s semi-pro football team while I was growing up.

“The thing I love most about CTK is…
the love that is growing and witnessed here! God is at work, forging and forming us more and more into the image of His Son!”

“If I didn’t work here I would…
want to be involved in helping congregations learn to love one another more, as Christ first loved them…that they might make His love known to a world that is aching for it!