Music + me
Music is how I worship best. I bought my first acoustic guitar in the dark period after my first breakup, and even through the awkward I-can't-really-play-anything-yet-because-I'm-still-learning-basic-chords phase, my guitar time became my closest connection with God.
My friend Adam gave me a couple free lessons to help me get started, and that gave me the confidence I needed to learn more on my own. My goal (which I achieved) was to become good enough that I could play in the Selah band, our Sunday night worship group at St. Olaf, before I graduated.
I wrote my first song as part of a final class project my junior year of college, and have been writing [on and off] ever since. Also while in college, I was blessed with opportunities to help lead worship gatherings at FCA and Thursday Night Bible Study, and, after graduation, for five months at an Assemblies of God church in Northfield, Minnesota.
Present day, I play once a month in the band at Jacob's Well, and once a month mix sound. I'm also in a perpetual state of working on my first CD... this project has already been several years in the making, and life's busy-ness keeps distracting me from finding time to work on it.
This particular section of my website is small for now. As I have time (read: maybe two or three years down the road), perhaps I'll add to it. Nevertheless, music is such an integral part of who I am, I would have been remiss not to include this page.