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I've always wanted to be in fulltime ministry. As a kid if I missed church my mom would make me do a little service of my own for everyone when they got back.

When my wife and I started dating (courting if you ask our parents and Joshua Harris), the plan was that she would be a nurse and I would be a youth pastor. She went to nursing school and quickly dropped out because she was too squeemish and I took my prequisits at a community college waiting for God to drop the tuition money for a Christian university in my lap.

At the age of 15 I started working as a printer repair dude for a company called Online PC service. At 18, when Mallika and I started dating, I became a fulltime employee that was Microsoft Certified, Network Plus Certified, and a Certified Network Security Engineer. At the age of 21 I was offered a job to work for an amazing company in Indianapolis IN.

Although the entire time I was heavily involved in the youth department at our church, it clearly was evident to me that God has closed the door to fulltime ministry and opened this one.

Mallika and I settled into our new home in Indy and life was sweet. We had achieved the American dream and life was sweet. Sorta.

My job required that I travel 3 weeks out of the month and I was barely home and when I was I didn't have anything left for the youth we loved dearly. My job was great, and although I believe you can work anywhere and be a minister, at the end of the day I would be exhausted and felt as though I was wasting my time not doing something with eternal value.

2 years into Indy the church we volunteered at offered me a job as a youth pastor. About the same time a great friend of mine, Chris Hughes, called me and shared with me his vision to start a ministry for the arts in south Floridia. Feeling as though I am a artist at heart, this was very sweet to me. It appeared God was testing me. He had opened so many great doors. After much prayer and fasting I chose to walk away from a job that promised 6 figures in 9 years, sell my beautiful home in a low cost-of-living state, pack up my pregnant wife, and move in with my in-laws in South FL.

After tons of promotion and a Charlie Hall kick off concert attended by 450 people Chris and I launched Revolution - A School for the Arts a ministry of Oasis Church in fall of 2008. 3 people signed up and I was working nights a Dillards to pay the bills. I was feeling underwelmed but none the less knew that this is where called had called us for this season of our lives.

After working for Oasis Church 6 months I was offered a position as the campus pastor of Oasis Church's Hollywood campus. Oasis Church Hollywood shares a special place in my wife and I's heart's. My wife and I grew up in Hollywood. It was the church we served in before moving to Indy. The pastor at the time, Jeremy Cox, married my wife and I. Upon moving back to Hollywood it was the campus we chose to attend.

The decision of Guy Melton and his crazy staff to take such a God sized risk and ask me to be the campus pastor still astonishes me to this day. It's nothing short of God's perfect will and timing. I will have been the campus pastor in Hollywood for 6 months in April.

I guess I'm writing this as sort of an extended bio on myself and a way of encouraging those who are waiting on God's perfect timing. Get out of the boat, show some faith, take a risk, and be rewarded.

Come to Oasis Church Hollywood and see a fool for the God he loves making a fool out of himself.