Me

A Brief Biography...

Born in Singapore in 1969, my American family and I
moved to Indonesia where my father worked in the oil
industry (Delta for Caltex in Rumbai). We moved back to
the United States in the early eighties and I eventually
graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in
1992 with an interdisciplinary degree in American Religious
History and Philosophy through New College. (more below
pictures)

A year later I began seminary at Candler School of
Theology at Emory University, a United Methodist
seminary, though I was a member of the Presbyterian
Church (USA) at the time. Eventually, I left PC (USA) and
became an ordained minister in Metropolitan Community
Church in 1998. I served an MCC congregation in
Spokane, Washington, and later became the first minister
of a new parish extension in Oklahoma City established by
the Cathedral of Hope (Dallas, TX). In 2002 I became the
Pastor of Spiritual Formation at the Cathedral, serving until
the Spring of 2004. In the Summer of 2004 I was called to
be the Associate Pastor of First Congregational Church
(UCC) of Houston, Texas. I received full ministerial
standing in the United Church of Christ in August, 2005.
In mid-August 2006 I became the pastor of First
Congregational Church of Coloma , Michigan.

Theologically, the statement of faith that has most
resonated with me is a creed originally composed by the
United Church of Canada in 1980:

We are not alone, we live in God's world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus,
the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the church:
to celebrate God's presence,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus,
crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone. Thanks be to God.
---United Church of Canada,
1980

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