My journey as a follower of Jesus started with accepting Him as my Saviour at age 6. Candidly, I don’t remember much about the actual experience, nor can I really know the understanding of my commitment. But I know that it was the first step on a lifelong road of appreciating what God did for me and how I need to live my life in gratitude and obedience. My father served as an ordained pastor for over 40 years, so I grew up as a PK. I am grateful for the foundation which that provided, even with moves every 4-5 years when he transitioned to a different church.

I met my wife (Barb) midway through college, and we were married right before graduation. Our lives together started with 4 years in Florida where I went to graduate school and (more importantly) where our first daughter, Erica, was born. Our other daughter was born at our next stop in Indiana. Kentucky, Indiana (again), Colorado and Maryland were the subsequent moves for our family.

My career has been spent in health care – first as a clinical psychologist and then in various types of health care management. As a result, we have lived in multiple states and been blessed by worshipping at many wonderful churches. Consistently, the role of small groups in those churches has played a major role in our spiritual formation as well as the development of lifelong friends.

We have appreciated being part of the body at Ambassador Bible Church – first episodically as we visited Erica and Hanway and then as our church home over the past 5+ years.  We have grown and been challenged spiritually by many aspects of ABC ministry. We count it a privilege to have served in various ways over the past 5 years and hopefully in the years to come.

As I am in the Barzillai phase of life, I look forward to continuing to grow in the knowledge of God. Even as the news reinforces how the world is fallen, I continue to believe in the church as light and salt to follow Jesus’ teaching on love, mercy and justice for all created in 3 His image. The words of Micah continue to be a guiding light:  What does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.