I am a husband, father, author, educator, and seminarian who resides in St. Louis. Growing up on a farm in west central Illinois, I attended the University of Missouri in Columbia as a journalism major, but ended up with a bachelor’s degree in geography so as to graduate in four years and pursue ministry with The Navigators.
Upon graduation from Mizzou in 1993, I moved to Colorado Springs, where I served as program director for Eagle Lake Camp and Glen Eyrie Conference Center, the camp and conference ministries of The Navigators. In addition to camp and retreat work, I also wrote and recorded 60 original songs, traveled to and taught (twice) in the African country of Uganda, met and married Megan, and became the father of four daughters.
In 2003, having worked with over 800 college students and 15,000 junior high and high school students, I co-authored and published TwentySomeone: Finding Yourself in a Decade of Transition, a practical theology book for people entering, experiencing, and exiting their twenties (parents of twenty-somethings tend to be readers as well). I’ve also published articles in Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, and byFaith.
After 12 years with The Navigators, in 2005 I moved my family to St. Louis, where I am pursuing Masters of Theological Studies and Educational Ministries degrees at Covenant Theological Seminary, as well as served as teaching assistant to professor Jerram Barrs at the seminary’s Francis Schaeffer Institute. I now teach New Testament and Biblical Ethics full-time at Westminster Christian Academy.
Megan and I are members at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, where we strive with that community to know and love Jesus more.
