ABOUT ME
At this stage of senior life I think of what I am leaving behind that others can use. It is not what I have, but it is also that is in a place, where others can access it.
Early in my life I wrestled with the question, “What is going to matter 100 years from now? At some point I concluded that two items would last – The Word of God and people. The best investment of my life would combine the two. I made a doulos commitment to the Lord as a teen-ager. So, what is a doulos commitment? The term doulos designates a slave. He obeys all God’s commandments. This slavery is not harsh treatment. The one who calls me a slave, also calls me His friend (John 15:15). I found that the best way for me to be a doulos was to teach the Word of God and to teach each to be a doulos as well.
MY BIO
Education:
Pastorate:
Served in four pastorates, each in a very different demographic.
Oversaw various ministries at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa:
Tuesday School
A laymen’s Bible school, 6-week terms, 2 sets of classes each evening, 4 terms in a year.
Home Fellowships (Pastoral oversight during the 90’s)
Sports Ministry
Team competition in various sports
Men-s Conference
Pastoral oversight at Anaheim Convention Center (Some years over 8,000 attendance)
Support Groups
All groups meeting together for an expository teaching on a passage relating to one of 14 principles we had identified. Then we broke up into groups including Separated/Divorced, People-Pleasers, Anger Management, Men’s Sexual Purity, Bereavement, Sexually Abused Women, Sexually Abused Men, Women under Stress, Nicotine Addiction, Loved Ones of Chemically Dependent, and Caregivers.
Retreats
Twice annually (one a father-son)
Men’s Share Groups
Monthly restaurant groups of 4 men each. Each would share a devotional thought from a verse and a prayer request.
Calvary Teams
A full-time 3 terms in a year residential school at our Castle in the Austrian Alps. We trained young people for missionary work in eastern Europe. I ran the school from Costa Mesa.
School of Ministry
Founded and directed n alternative seminary. All students were full-time every day 7-10.
As the millennium turned, I gave the other groups to others, so I could focus on School of Ministry.