*My wife (Jen) and I are currently members of St. Paul Lutheran in Flint and are currently in the process of joining St. Matthew. We are good friends of Thomas and Andrea Czinder who succeeded in sucking us into things in Walled Lake. We have truly felt blessed for the opportunity.
Even though we don't live in the immediate area and aren't yet members, we still feel like St. Matthew has something to offer us. We have been enjoying blended (and Wixom) worship, the Weds. night Lifelight Bible study, community site and Dion's podcasts. We are also currently planning on joining the choir and are trying to help start a new small group with some other couples.
So anyways, about me....we have recently moved in with my in-laws in Howell to save some money. My wife works midnights as a medical technologist at Warde Medical Laboratories in Ann Arbor. I recently quit my job of 8 years working as a technical writer at an engineering firm in Fenton to study up for entering the seminary in St. Louis next year to become a pastor. So, in the meantime, I've also become a stay-at-home dad, taking care of our sixteen-month old Peter.
We're fairly typical Gen-Yers. We like movies and good TV (and some not so good TV). We're also fairly regular readers (dependent upon when we have time). Additionally, I'm an avid gamer (all sorts, really) and an all-around geek. Jen is a wonderful wife and mother with a passion for her family, medicine, and the church. She enjoys scrapbooking, running, and flouting (though rarely does any...stupid "time"). We both LOVE our friends and really enjoy the opportunity to connect with other people in a real way.
As far as faith goes, we seem to have come out of our recent "wandering in the desert" period into our "going where God is calling us" period. My wife grew up an LCMS Lutheran and I came to faith in Christ as a teenager. But both of us have been frustrated with various aspects of today's church and are trying to follow God's leading to something new. Now that we've become convinced of God's calling for me to become a pastor, it's put a lot of other things in perspective, and helped make all our other decisions that much easier (to make at least...not necessarily to go through with).
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