I was born and raised in South Georgia in the booming metropolis of Preston, population 453. I always attended church; there was not a Sunday when my butt wasn’t in a pew. In January of my senior year, I decided to give God a shot at running my life. After high school, (which was in the middle of a cow pasture, no lie, there was one day when there was a baseball game one of the guys from my high school hit a homerun that hit a cow), I went to college for about a year and quickly decided that college wasn’t what I was interested in for the time being because God was beginning to lead me a different way.
I stayed in the area and worked several blue collar jobs from driving a truck delivering building supplies to building boats to selling wholesale merchendise to convenience stores to working in a hardware store. In 2005, God called me out of my comfort zone to move to Indiana to work at a boarding school for troubled youth. I have spent the following 2 years in a live-in family style ministry situation playing roles I really didn’t know how to play. God has diffidently shown me a new measure of His grace. He’s given me the tools to be the man I didn’t really know how to be.
I guess I’ve known for a while now that God is calling me to live life different. The status quo, the home in the suburbs, a dog, cat and 2.3 kids will not work for me, not that these things are bad. I don’t know how life will really look for me. I excited about the adventure that that means.
As I have come to the end of my time with New Horizon’s and look forward to what God is doing in this next chapter of my life. I’m excited and also apprehensive about how God will stretch and call me to a new view on life. I will be in Indiana finishing out our school semister until May. I then plan on moving back home to Georgia and doing any odd job I can find to earn some money before September.
