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Titles
Project Leader / Architect
Contact Info
Joined eMi2 : November 2006
Story
Laura and I married in 2001, and now have three young daughters. Both Laura and I grew up in Missouri and began our married life together in Memphis, TN. In Memphis, we worked for an inner-city home repair ministry and we eventually made our home in the community the ministry was working in.
In 2004, Laura and I took an EMI trip together to India and the Lord began a process in our hearts that led us to join the eMi2 staff as the staff family in November of 2006. Our new life in India has been one of great blessing and many challenges that have stretched and grown us in our relationship with the Lord.
Verses to Live By
Matthew 6:31-33
“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.”
Luke 14:25-27,33
“Now great crowds accompanied [Jesus], and he turned and said to them, ‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.’”
Professional Training and Experience
I have a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Kansas State University (1997). Upon graduating, I worked for a brief period of time at a firm in Columbia, MO as I prepared to study through the SOM Traveling Fellowship. During the fellowship, I spent seven months traveling throughout Europe while studying community housing. Upon returning, I spent the next year and a half working at the firm in Columbia. I then spent 5-1/2 years working in Memphis, TN for an inner-city home repair ministry where I coordinated and led volunteers in home renovation and repair work. |
