If you had grabbed me four years ago and told me that one day I'd be serving as a mission-planter carrying the Gospel of Christ to the lost, I'd have politely pointed out how inconveniently that interfered with my plans of being a world-renowned ad executive. Or at the very least a mediocre graphic designer. And if you had gone on to tell me that my calling would lead me not to remote villages in Africa or the ghettos of eastern Europe but to my own familiar college-town of Denton, Texas, I'd have not-so politely pointed out that I hated Denton and couldn't wait to move to Manhattan.
Funny how things change. Somewhere along the way God replaced my passion for selling people promises that just couldn't last and instead filled me with a desire to share the only promise that did: that God put on flesh and paid our debts on a cross so that we could know how much we mean to Him. And to top it off, He gave me a huge heart for the city that just years before I couldn't wait to leave. Now I'm here to stay.
God's plan brought me to a family of faith called Water's Edge Church, where I found Gospel not only spoken in words but also through the actions of every member, and to their Soul Thirst Ministries, an intense and hands-on academy for training up mission-planters to serve as messengers of His Word to the places He calls them--places that are often much closer than we expect.
God's plan brought me to a family of faith called Water's Edge Church, where I found Gospel not only spoken in words but also through the actions of every member, and to their Soul Thirst Ministries, an intense and hands-on academy for training up mission-planters to serve as messengers of His Word to the places He calls them--places that are often much closer than we expect.
So that's what I'm about, working with my good friend and ministry partner Anthony Celia as God uses us to raise up a movement of men and women we call The Station, friends who are ready to shine light into darkness, to bring the Good News to the hopeless, reckless and homeless of Denton and then on to the ends of the earth.
If you had grabbed me four years ago I wouldn't have had a clue how awesome my life would be today. And to top it all off I still get to be a mediocre graphic designer.
