From High Brow Pirate to Hometown Pastor

Welcome.  Let’s get to the point.  This is blog is going to be my personal journey of leaving my career as a computer consultant/freelance writer and entering the ministry. Not only am I becoming a minister, but I am in the process of starting a new church. 

So who is this blog for? I have some friends and relatives that like to keep tabs on me and tend to ask me the same questions regarding this new adventure.  This saves me a lot of time.  People who are contemplating a life of ministry may benefit from this as well.  I have found people who are young and old that think about this road and calling.  It is romanticized and vilified.  I am not trying to impress anyone, I will give this journey a raw and vulnerable perspective and allow the reader to discern.  Another category are those who are either contemplating a church plant or merely curious about how one goes about planting a church.  This could be a resource that they can add.  

The conventions are more of an explanation of the categories.  History will be a backstory.  Sometimes the backstory may seem unrelated, but I am sure the 40 years Moses spent in Midian had relevance to who he was during the Exodus. Lessons will cover the path to ministry and the lessons I learn..or need to learn to become an effective minister.  Planting Process will be related to things needed to plant a church.  Bumps and Potholes.  Along the way there will be setbacks, frustrations, mistakes, and days I may want to give all this up and be a waiter at a diner.  Those will need their own category.

 I chose the categories to allow people the freedom to focus their readings on what is important to them.  I hope everyone would take the time to read the whole.  I firmly believe that it would be beneficial. 

 A more exhaustive backstory will be written in later entries.  For now, this is the brief version. In 1990, I attended Bible College with the intent to be a minister.  I quit 2 years later.  Despite ending my studies I would go on to work in the ministry.  I would get married and in 1996, leave the ministry.  During that time I became a father, stopped going to church, resumed church attendance, struggled with my faith, started my own company, survived a heart attack, have recently returned to the Bible college I left, closed my computer consulting operation, and have come full circle to begin a new journey.  This summer I will don the cap and gown, get ordained, and get ready to have a new church in town by Fall.  Care to know how this will happen?  So do I.