Before becoming a preacher, I spent 12 years as a trial attorney. During my time in the practice, my mentoring minister encouraged me to try teaching at my local congregation. I not only began teaching, but tried preaching and was surprised at how much I enjoyed both. After preaching more regularly though, I soon realized that it required different skills than I had learned in the courtroom. So I went back to school, and eventually became an ordained minister. After just over three years as a youth minister, I was asked to help train prospective preachers in southern Africa where I taught, preached, and helped truant kids find stable housing, while they got caught up in school. Eventually I returned to the U.S. where I have been blessed to return to full time preaching, and look forward to what God has ahead. email at: minister@lewistonchurchofchrist.org