today i wanted to open up the vault a little bit and share something about myself that, if you haven't been following my blog very long, you may not know about me.
since moving to virginia, i've gained a few new readers... and most of you know me as the guy who works at waters edge church. what you don't know, is that i used to be the guy who worked at catalyst church. a church i helped start in late 2004... and helped close in 2008. one year ago today in fact... sunday, april 20th, 2008.
(at this point, i'm sure you're thinking to yourself... "do churches really close?" well, yes they do. for lots of reasons. ours were primarily financial, but i won't go into all of the details here. if you're interested, i have a list of links at the bottom that explain it a little more in depth.)
in many aspects, it's really hard to believe it's been a year. in other aspects, so much has happened in my life since then that it seems like it's been much longer than that.
the memories of my time at catalyst are good ones. i loved our church. when we planted catalyst, it was a different kind of church (for me, anyway). a church that existed for unchurched people... something greenville didn't have many of, if any, at the time. i saw God do some of the most amazing things i've ever seen in my time there. i also loved the team of leaders that i had the privilege to work with every day. they were not only co-workers, they were friends, and i'm still close with each of them.
my time at catalyst was so valuable. i grew so much during those years. so much of who i am as a leader today is a direct result of my time at catalyst. so much of how i ended up at waters edge is because of my time at catalyst. and, although the months following catalyst were difficult at times, i'm so thankful for that time in my life. i wouldn't trade it for anything.
thanks for opening up the vault with me. hopefully, it gave some of you a little more insight into who i am and where i came from. if you'd like to read some of my thoughts during that time, i've linked to a few of the most significant posts from those days. feel free to click on the links below and read them. of course, you can always dig through the archives to read everything.
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