I can only imaging that in her wildest imagination, Stephanie would never have believed when she married me she would end up a pastor's wife in Dickinson, North Dakota! We were married in Jan of 1993, and although neither of us were abiding in Christ, we considered ourselves Christians. In trying to fill a God shaped vacuum in our lives, we started attending a Lutheran church. In 1994, we brought two foster children into our home, who have since become our beloved sons, Joe and Josh. It was not long before we desired to be fed of the meat of the word, not just milk, and in

1996 ended up at Calvary Chapel Murrieta, CA. At the same time, because I craved more intense instruction, I enrolled at Calvary Chapel Bible College in Murrieta. A short time after, and a move to Temecula, CA, and my family and I ended up at "The Barn", Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship. It was there I was ordained in October of 2002, and in November of that year we came to Dickinson to plant what is now Calvary Fellowship Dickinson, where I am serving them as their pastor.