Over Twenty-Five Years in the Trenches

I’ve spent more than two decades vocational ministry across a wide range of roles and church contexts—from large churches (2,500+ adults) to small church plants. I’ve served as a youth pastor, worship pastor, executive pastor, lead pastor, and church planter.

I don't approach this work from theory or from the outside. I come as someone who has lived inside the weight of ministry, reflected on it honestly, and learned to pay attention to how interior life and leadership decisions shape one another over time.

What I bring to our conversations:

• Lived experience: I’ve experienced seasons of health and unhealth, wise decisions and costly ones. Time spent paying attention to what went wrong, why it went wrong, what went right, and what I would hold differently now — with intentional reflection on what shaped each season.

• A discernment-oriented posture: Gifted at noticing patterns beneath the surface — how theology, values, fear, fatigue, and unspoken assumptions influence leadership culture and decision-making.

• The ability to hold people and systems together: Helping leaders think faithfully about personal formation and organizational dynamics — marriage, family, spiritual health, strategy, ministry philosophy, values — without reducing the work to techniques or fixes.

• Companionship from inside the work: Walking with leaders as a peer who understands the weight rather than positioning myself as a problem-solver or authority. Someone who has been there, made mistakes, learned through cost, and continues to navigate some of the same tensions.

Experience alone doesn’t make someone a good companion. Reflected experience does.

My hope is simple: that some of the lessons learned through lived experience don't have to be learned the hard way again. Not so leaders never fail — failure is part of formation — but so blind spots are named earlier, erosion is noticed sooner, and cost is not unnecessarily multiplied.