Mark
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Community Development |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Life so far has taken me down some interesting roads. I grew up in Indiana, moved down to Texas to go to college at Abilene Christian University, and just recently graduated and am now living in Chicago, IL. While at ACU, I met some great friends and became a part of an organic network of communities. In graduate school, I became a part of a missions residency program that trained me in the simple, but profound roles of a missionary in a postmodern, post-Christian North America. I work with a church planting organization called the Chicago District Evangelistic Association. For several years, CDEA had been looking for an organic church planter to do mission work in the city, which was exactly what we had dreamt of doing. It's great when God creates those moments of clarity! Alongside church planting work, I also work part time at an Italian restaurant here in the area. It's a great chance to meet those searching and to be salt and light in tangible/humble ways. I love to read (here's my library), I love web development, cartooning, running, biking, baseball, Ultimate Frisbee, ecology, politics, spoken word poetry, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! |
| Interests | frisbee, cartooning, organic church, mandolin, Super Smash Bros., God, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reading, life transformation, hospitality |
| Favorite Movies | Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Spiderman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Neverending Story, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy |
| Favorite Music | Nickel Creek, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Norah Jones, 3 Doors Down, Maroon 5, Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Outkast, 311, The Allman Brothers, Relient K, Black Eyed Peas, Collective Soul, Death By Crisco, The Living End, Yellowcard, They Might Be Giants, Thousand Foot Krutch Dave Matthews Band, Lost Prophets, Switchfoot, Five Iron Frenzy, Kanye West, Pete Murray, Kumbia Kings, Sanctus Real |
| Favorite Books | Blue Like Jazz, Life of Pi, Goosebumps, The Bible, Wild at Heart, Lord of the Rings, Come to the Table, The Shaping of Things to Come, Organic Church |
Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:
Sizzling super-laser eyeballs!