After graduating college my wife Rachel and I ended up moving to Chicago in 2002.  Rachel was working in advertising and I was working for a technology company doing sales.  After three years Rachel moved out of the advertising world and found herself working for a ministry in the city called Caris.  I on the other hand, wasn’t looking to move into ministry and was content working in business.  Today I find myself working in ministry.  So what got me here?

 In life you can look back and see God working through different ways in many circumstances.  Often you don’t necessarily know that He’s preparing you for something through all the life experiences He brings you until the opportunity comes to take a step of faith and trust in Him.  For me, there was about 4 years of spiritual growth that took place before it made since to make a transition from sales into ministry.  In my life it ended up being that ministry started to outweigh other things that I was doing and the transition to leave sales in August of 2007 and serve in full time ministry ended up being easy to make.  Looking back I can see how God prepared me to be here at New Life.

 My role on staff is primarily assimilation (connection with guests), mobilization, outreach and at our Lincoln Park location I also function as a Worship Venue Leader.  It’s been an exciting year as we’ve continued to grow as a church and serve in our community.  When Rachel and I first came to New Life we were challenged to grow spiritually.  I still hear people saying that they felt the Sunday messages were made for them.  I want to also invite you to come experience a church that is relevant, real, challenging and Christ centered.  We’re a place where real people with real issues come together to experience a real God that cares about us.  Yup, God cares about you.  We’re a place that believes that.