Here’s a little bit about me. . .

My elementary school years were spent in a small town in Nebraska where I was known as the class science wiz.  I spent hours in our basement workshop experimenting with my chemistry set and tinkering with whatever I could get my hand on.  I only filled the basement with smoke a few times. I also enjoyed the outdoors, including camping trips with the Boy Scouts.  Looking back on it I had a great childhood, for which I am truly thankful.

At the time I finished junior high my family moved to beautiful Northwest Montana.  I continued my pursuit of science and started putting together electronic circuits.  In school I took every science course that I could.

While I was growing up I attended the Roman Catholic Church with my family, but when I was in high school I began to ask a lot of questions about the meaning of life and whether there was really a God. Through some Christian friends I came to understand the significance of Christ’s death for my sins on the cross and God’s desire to have a personal relationship with us.  I trusted Christ for salvation during my junior year.

When I moved to California to attend college at Stanford I was entering uncharted territory.  I didn’t know anyone in the entire state.  I quickly found a Christan fellowship group and got involved.  My plan had been to major in computer science, but I ended up in philosophy.  The reason for that is that God was changing my life plans.

While in college I was involved in several different campus ministries and sensed God’s call to full-time vocational ministry. Upon graduation from college I jumped immediately into ministry and began study at Talbot Seminary.  The other thing I did right after I finished college was to get married to my wife Joni, whom I had gotten to know through the Christian fellowship groups on campus.  We moved down to Southern California where I earned my M.Div. and Th.M. degrees at Talbot.  During that time my two sons, Paul and Daniel were born.

While at Talbot my wife and I had a growing burden to serve God as cross-cultural missionaries.  After my graduation we moved to Taiwan with our two young boys to serve as missionaries with OMF.  After our return from Taiwan I served from 1994 until 2011 as the English congregation pastor at Chinese For Christ Church in Berkeley, CA. During that time I completed my D.Min. at Western Seminary with a dissertation on reaching the next generations in North American Chinese churches.  In the fall of 2011 we moved to Oregon where I serve as the part-time interim English Pastor at a Chinese church and am writing a book based on my dissertation research.  Currently we live in Seaside, OR and are seeking God’s direction our long term future ministry.