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Boom. God had done it. I was a student at Liberty University and was given the opportunity to join the house worship band. Normally, you gotta leave when you graduate, but after graduation, I was asked to lead the team and embarked on my time as Liberty’s Worship Pastor, where I had the privilege to oversee and lead worship for nearly five years of Liberty’s Convocation and Campus Church services. What a blast.
That place is home in many ways. During my time there, I not only graduated college, I gained the tremendous ability to grow facial hair, which hadn’t occurred quite yet for this guy. I walked in a boy and left…well, still mostly a boy, but I met my wife (who’s also a worship leader), we started our family, and released my first two albums (“Death is Overcome” and “We Are Yours”). God then took us on the journey of a lifetime, which you can hear more about below. Pain, fear, confusion, anger, desperation, the faithfulness of Christ…all that stuff.
Now imagine it’s right when COVID started—that was literally our first Sunday at our new church. lol. Of all the ways to begin a new church, that’s definitely one of them! But since March 2020, I’ve been the Worship Pastor at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota where we get to serve with some incredible people!
My wife for one, Ashley Kintzel, is a wonderful singer and worship leader, and then, legitimately some of the best staff and volunteers on the planet. We also launched Grace Worship Collective in 2024—the plan being to release modern worship songs inspired directly by scripture. I also get to partner with an absolute Bible-teaching monster—Troy Dobbs. At Grace, we’re about two things: Worship and the Word.
And me? My hope is to just be a good husband. A good dad. A good protector. A good leader. A truth teller. A dependable friend. I’m so far away from being like Jesus, but I think He does want us to try.
