My Story

A quick Bio.
I was a knucklehead all through out high school. Still am but now I glorify God when i’m doing it.  I was a jock in High school, I partied, smoked, drank, fought, and slept around.  My sophomore year in high school I went to a churches Summer Camp.  That year I was the “Bad” kid at camp. Being a punk doing what I thought I did best.  I remember the first night Mark Francey spoke and said if you aren’t sure if God is real ask him to prove it to you.  A few nights later I remembered what Mark had said, at the beginning of Pastor Krist’s sermon I asked God to prove it to me.  I asked him to pray for Sam (my best friend at the time) and myself in the middle of the sermon.  About 10 minutes later Pastor Krist stopped in the middle of his sermon and said “I really feel like God wants me to do this, Sam and Dan can you come up here I feel like I need to pray for you.” I began to bawl like the biggest baby because I knew for the first time that God was real.
Coming out of that camp I was on fire for God, but I didn’t have a foundation, and I didn’t have what I needed in my life to continue on with my walk with God.  I found myself shortly after Drinking, messing around with Girls and getting high all over again.
That following winter I went to Generation Unleashed and had another encounter with God.  He showed me some plans for my life. Some steps I needed to take in order to live for him, and Revealed to me that I was to do interns the following year. Again I didn’t have a foundation built, and I chose not to make the changes needed to make the REAL change.  I started partying again, drinking, and smoking, but I still knew that I was supposed to do interns. I ended up graduating a year early and was waiting to do interns in the fall.
Coming into interns I was still dealing with some junk from my past.  But I remember Pastor Shane saying from the get go “if you want to get the most out of interns, give God your everything.” So from right then and there I began to pray and truly give God my everything.  Just after I started doing that I began to see a change in my life style. For one my devotional life became to sky rocket.  My relationship and understanding of God began to develop and strengthen.  I began to set standards I never thought I would or even could set.  I was thrown into leadership positions through-out GCB.  People began to notice a huge change in me and began to come to me for help. God radically changed my life, all it took was a desire for me to see God’s will fulfilled and he completely changed who I was.
All I can say is if God can take a knucklehead ex jock like me and transform me, and use me for his Kingdom, I can’t even imagine what God can do in your life.