My Journey So Far
Wow. 2006 is over and I am half way through seminary now. And I am creating my own blog to chronicle my ongoing adventures in my life of serving Jesus Christ. I am hitting the halfway point in life as well, for in a few days I will be 39 years old.To briefly recap the adventure so far... I was born in Rhode Island to Robert and Christy Colebank in 1967. I grew up as an only child in a very artistic family. My Dad is an architect and my Mom is an illustrator/graphic designer. They met while going to Rhode Island School of Design and I was born while they were in college. I followed in their footsteps and went to college at R.I.S.D. too. I graduated in 1989 with a B.F.A. in Industrial Design.
While at R.I.S.D., I discovered that God really did exist through seeing the difference He made in the lives of my friends; Nick DeLuca, Steve Brock, Dan Fergus and Eric Holter. In September, 1988 during my senior year I asked God to come into my life and began to follow Jesus. After I graduated, I decided to make God my first priority by focusing on growing in my relationship with God, so I stayed in RI and took a commercial art job. I began asking God to lead me in my career and give me a soul mate.
In 1996, I sensed Gods leading to change careers and got into web site design right as the Internet began to take off. This proved to be a great career to be in over the next decade. I love computers, so I had a lot of fun as I dove into programming and database design. God was faithful in leading me into a career that was perfectly suited for my interests and abilities.
In November, 1996 I heard Henry Blackaby speaking on a Fresh Encounter with God and heard God calling me to serve Him full time. Six months later I met my wife, Lynn, and we were married in August, 1998. Lynn was serving on the staff of Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts and had just completed her Masters in Counselling at Gordon Conwell when I met her. Once again God was faithful in providing a soul mate for each of us who was perfectly suited to complete the other. I am a thinker and Lynn is a feeler. I love to spend time alone getting deeper into things and Lynn loves to connect with lots of people. I love to strategize and plan and Lynn loves to be spontaneous and have fun. God is so good and loves to give us the best. We have discovered great joy in exploring life together as a couple comparing our unique perspectives. And God has been faithful to help us move through and beyond the times when those differences caused us to clash.
We settled in to establish our home and in 2000 we began our family. We asked God to provide for us so Lynn could stay home with our children and several months later I had a new job with a 50% salary increase which allowed Lynn to stop working. Our son John was born in September 2000. Over the next four years God blessed us with two more children; Sarah and Jenna.
By the summer of 2005, we were ready for the next step and moved to Cochrane, Alberta in Canada to go to the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary to prepare for what God wanted us to do next. The last year and a half has been a tremendous time of spiritual growth and my heart is increasingly on fire for God as I continue to experience his faithfulness to us. God is truly good to those who put their trust in Him. I hope that the chronicles of Gods faithfulness in this blog will encourage many others to be wholeheartedly follow Jesus as well.
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