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They led to my first professional experience, as Executive Director with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and my first fore into the food business at the Back Alley Bakery, to a theological education and a Masters of Divinity from Yale 2008. It called me as a deacon, ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has informed my work as a Christian Educator, an economic justice advocate and a fundraising executive at the Presbyterian Mission
Agency. But mostly, it keeps calling me to create new and diverse experiences and experiments with purpose, and the rehearsal and performance of identity. I blame it on doing lots of plays as a kid. I’ve played lots of parts in life and on stage, and each one shared much in common. Each one taught unique and empowering lessons about the motivations and desires we all share in differing degrees.
While leading the turn-around at a local non-profit organization, and then smashing fundraising goals (and expectations) for a flailing national mission agency, I began to hear, more and more of that success as an echo of my experiences in business, with the bakery, and those of being an assistant high school musical director: I want to encourage and coach you into your next successful expression as an organization or congregation, and I want to dream a new recipe, with you, out of one you’ve made before. Making meals for making friends, have always been my ways of being. I am currently exploring alongside congregations of Eastminster Presbytery in Ohio, as their Associate for Vital Congregations, involved as Creative Director with Covenant Gathering, and in the kitchen, at Glory’s Rolls and I am Nacho Daddy.