Background Summary

I am a Counselor, Pastor and Leader excited about walking with others through the hardest and most important parts of life. With experience counseling, listening, preaching, leading, and sitting with others through challenges and success alike, I know we can make progress together.

Strengths & Skills
  • Communication - Listening, understanding, and speaking in a way people can understand come naturally to me. I love to take ideas, vision, and instruction and present them to those who can listen and put these things into action.
  • Adaptability - I am comfortable with stability and with change. I am able to accomplish my goals using many different avenues and by incorporating planning and split second decisions. There are few situations where I cannot achieve success.
  • Strategic - My leadership is characterized by vision and direction. I define goals as well as how they will be accomplished. When I am a leader my team is going somewhere and each member knows how to get there.
  • Ideation - I thrive on ideas. I love to learn and I love to teach with well tested methods and by breaking new ground. I am constantly trying to improve and often ask "are we functioning at the best we possibly can?"
  • Woo - I win people over. People trust and admire me. I lead based on mutual love and authenticity. Under my leadership people feel cared for and are passionate about what I am passionate about. Passionate people work hard to achieve their goals. 
  • Honesty - I lead through transparency. I deliver the truth in a loving and helpful way so that everyone involved can embrace necessary action. This level of relational openness comes through in leading a service, preaching, and across the board in any ministry I run.

Competencies
  • Marriage, Couple, and Individual Counseling (M.S.E Marriage and Family Therapy)
  • Officiant & Premarital Counselor (Prepare Enrich Trained)
  • Strategic Leader (Senior Leadership Team)
  • Worship Leader (Sunday Morning & Youth Retreats)
  • Preacher (Adult and Youth Contexts)​​
  • Event & Service Planner (Weekly & Special Events)
  • ​Curriculum Developer (Youth Based - Written and Taught)
  • Mission Trip Leader (Practical and Spiritual/Devotional)

Job History
Pastor of Youth and Young Adults | July 2016 - Present                        - Emmanuel Covenant Church| Shoreview, MN 
  • Working with the senior leadership team, I serve a growing church by leading the student, young adult, and care ministries. Through intentional and relational leadership, we have seen lives transformed by the power of God and more people living more like Jesus in authentic community. I lead through preaching, counseling, and relationally equipping volunteers so that we can all get more like Jesus.
Clinical Pastoral Education 2022 - 2023
Minneapolis Veterans Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
  • Under my supervisor at the St. Cloud Veterans Hospital, Rev. Dan Duggan, I spent Friday’s working at the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital. My work consisted in supervised and solitary chaplain duties for all wards at the hospital (mental health, ICU, palliative care, short term care, etc.). I led chapel services which included preaching, coordination. worship music, and pastoral care to those who attended. During the course of the unity I excelled at CPE didactics on empathy, pastoral skills, and pastoral identity, and grew personally and professionally even as I practiced exemplary chaplain services.
​Youth Pastor and Worship Director | June 2013 - June 2016                             - Cornerstone Church of Blaine | Blaine, MN 
  • Maintained dual responsibility and leadership oversight for Youth and Worship Ministries as one of two pastors on staff. Developed relationships with key volunteers, managed multiple large projects at once, and grew teams of volunteers as well as the ministry itself.
  • Other responsibilities included leading Cornerstone’s first international mission trip to Tijuana, Mexico, conducting premarital counseling and marriage ceremonies, small group leading, and occasional preaching.​

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