Meet Calvin

Calvin has been teaching and preaching much of his adult life and is always learning.

Teaching opportunities have included:

• teaching volunteers how to build houses as a Construction Supervisor with Habitat for Humanity;
• encouraging parishioners to study and apply Scripture through 18 years of pastoral ministry;
• playfully engaging children as a teacher at an Art Camp;
• empathically walking with patients, families and staff during 5 years of hospital chaplaincy; and
• patiently training hospital staff on the use of electronic medical record software.

Although not always a willing learner, Calvin has:

• earned a Bachelors degree from Calvin College in Biology and Chemisty (1986);
• learned carpentry and perseverance renovating a 1905 house in the inner-city of Grand Rapids, MI;
• earned a Masters of Divinity from Calvin Seminary (1995);
• experienced death – many times too close to home;
• endured a failing marriage that ended in divorce;
• embarked on and ended multiple careers;
• been a keen observer of life; and
• experienced hope and joy with almost every step of his winding path through life.