Next for the Intern…

Alright, everyone, the die has been cast and the decision is finally official. No more straddling the fence, no more anxiety over indecision, but I finally took the leap in saying confidently and officially that my next step in life is moving to Charlotte, North Carolina. Wow, it’s so weird to actually say outloud. I am SO excited and God has given me such peace about this decision.

Here’s the initial facts (there will definitely be more to come as time goes on):

— —->The Church is called Lifepointe Christian Church (lifepointecc.com). It was planted about 4 ½ years ago and God has just opened some incredible doors for them to start this second campus right over the Carolina border in Fort Mills, SC. It’s an awesome story of God coming through in some big ways that I’m sure I’ll eventually talk about on here.

— —–>I will be the second creative arts/worship guy working beside Blake Strozyk as they launch their second campus in May (I won’t be joining until later that summer for those of you at Suncrest freaking out at that moment). Blake is a good friend of mine. We’ve played in the bill wolf band together and have worked together and led at Crossings Knoxville while I was still a student at Johnson Bible College. I am really looking forward to working with him and the way we’ll be able to compliment each other’s gifts.

— —–> My role will include rotating between campuses with Blake to lead Sunday mornings. I’ll head up a lot of our efforts in graphics, video, drama, and whatever other artsy-visual stuff we tackle. I’ll also be in charge of working with some of our student musicians to build up a student band. Our hope is to eventually let the students take on a lot of responsibility in this area, but it’ll take some time for us to get to that point. As I look at the roles and responsibilities, I just laugh because God has just taken me on this journey where I’ve built up my skills and passions in all of these areas and at times I would question why certain things would happen or why I’d be in certain places, but a lot of that makes sense for this next step (like the fact that I got over wanting to be a youth minister about 6 years ago, yet still have worked in student ministry for so many years and now more of it makes sense with my needing to build up the student band at Lifepointe [and of course along with the friends I've made and the lives I've touched in each of those ministries])

K, that’s probably enough for now. I’ll give other little snippets every so often so you can start to get an idea of the huge, amazing, crazy, scary, ridiculous thing God is now calling me to.