How in the world did I end up here?
I want to first and foremost thank anyone that attends Faith Infusion for giving me the privilege of leading you in worshipping our Lord and Savior each week. I not only count it a blessing, but also a huge responsibility. Why is it I feel it's such a responsibility? Leading Worship is not just a job to me. It is a calling directly from God to me. So how did I end up with this calling and eventually come to Armstrong Chapel?
The summer before I was leaving college, I had everything planned out. I was going to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI in the fall to study Architecture. I was going to play baseball while I was there, and eventually marry my girlfriend who had already been at Wheaton College for a year. Those were my plans, but as many of you know, sometimes God has different; no; bigger plans for your life, and He definitely did for mine.
About two weeks before leaving for college, that girlfriend broke up with me. It came out of nowhere, and crushed me. At Calvin I really struggled with a few of my classes, and my GPA dropped after always doing very well in high school. I did take my first interest in guitar, and started teaching myself how to play.
I eventually got involved in a group called InterVarsity that first semester I was there. There is an event called Urbana through InterVarsity that I ended up going to (it was a miracle that I even went, but that story is for another time). It was there that I really saw people worshipping God with all of their heart and soul for the very first time. This brought two questions to mind. 1. Why was this the first time I had seen people worshipping like this? 2. What can I do (if anything) to have that, and share that with others? The last night I was at Urbana, we had a night of confession/revival in our small group. Each of us was prayed over as we confessed sin in our lives. I let go of my relationship with the high school girlfriend, and recommitted my life to the Lord in a deeper way than I even knew of. It was in the coming month that I realized God wanted me to take that experience and share it with others, leading and TEACHING them what worship is all about.
The following year, I transferred to Cedarville University, and enrolled in the Church Music Program. I met my WONDERFUL wife, Kelly, there, and graduated with a Church Music Ministry Degree. I have now led and taught worship in several churches leading me to Armstrong Chapel. I pray that Faith Infusion will be a place where people can come and have the same thoughts and questions I had on that first night at Urbana.
So, can we be that place? What is holding us back? What would we have to have or do that we don't now to be that place? Let me know what you think!
The summer before I was leaving college, I had everything planned out. I was going to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI in the fall to study Architecture. I was going to play baseball while I was there, and eventually marry my girlfriend who had already been at Wheaton College for a year. Those were my plans, but as many of you know, sometimes God has different; no; bigger plans for your life, and He definitely did for mine.
About two weeks before leaving for college, that girlfriend broke up with me. It came out of nowhere, and crushed me. At Calvin I really struggled with a few of my classes, and my GPA dropped after always doing very well in high school. I did take my first interest in guitar, and started teaching myself how to play.
I eventually got involved in a group called InterVarsity that first semester I was there. There is an event called Urbana through InterVarsity that I ended up going to (it was a miracle that I even went, but that story is for another time). It was there that I really saw people worshipping God with all of their heart and soul for the very first time. This brought two questions to mind. 1. Why was this the first time I had seen people worshipping like this? 2. What can I do (if anything) to have that, and share that with others? The last night I was at Urbana, we had a night of confession/revival in our small group. Each of us was prayed over as we confessed sin in our lives. I let go of my relationship with the high school girlfriend, and recommitted my life to the Lord in a deeper way than I even knew of. It was in the coming month that I realized God wanted me to take that experience and share it with others, leading and TEACHING them what worship is all about.
The following year, I transferred to Cedarville University, and enrolled in the Church Music Program. I met my WONDERFUL wife, Kelly, there, and graduated with a Church Music Ministry Degree. I have now led and taught worship in several churches leading me to Armstrong Chapel. I pray that Faith Infusion will be a place where people can come and have the same thoughts and questions I had on that first night at Urbana.
So, can we be that place? What is holding us back? What would we have to have or do that we don't now to be that place? Let me know what you think!
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