Church...

I quit my job as a youth pastor in January of 2007. I had been there for five and a half years and it was time to move on...

Ministry takes it toll on a person. I decided to take a year off and not stress. It is amazing how much you worry about as a youth pastor. People that you care about make bad decisions and you wonder if you could have helped them better.

Now I am rested.

I feel like I am now able to breathe, to listen to the voice of God and to lead His people into a new way of life.

So where is this way and who are the people...?

In the last year, my wife, Erin, and I have been to lots of different churches and have been mainly disappointed. We have not been captivated by a style or a particular experience. We have seen some good techniques and have been to some fine worship services...but none have captured our hearts or dared us to think about life in a different way.

So we begin our journey.

A journey to discover God and His face and to follow Him with courage and novelty. One that leads us into a life that is truly living and one that we were made to live.

We want to be open, honestly showing our lives as people who are not completed yet and who don't have everything figured out. We want to be loving, so much that we are unable to do it without the help of God. We want to be caring, so much that people respond by asking us to explain where we get our motivation.

We want to live giving all of the glory to God, because we couldn't possibly live the way we live without Him in our lives.