CityFellowship | Union Square NYC

Hi my name is Leo and I’m the pastor of CityFellowship.  Think of me as a brother (older or younger) who does IT…only instead of helping you with your computer, I specialize in spiritual things.  Sort of like a help-desk for connecting with God and the Bible…  So I don’t know more about ‘how you ought to live your life’ than you do – you are the expert on you…  I’m here to be the resident theologian and Bible expert: I can try to help you understand what God is saying and what it might mean for you…

Anyway, here are some random things about me, roughly in order of importance:

1. I am not the owner of CityFellowship. Our church belongs first to God, and then to its members (of which I am one). This is a risky way to do church, but it seems to be the way God designed it. He is a risk-taking God. Risk taking when it comes to those He loves.
2. My greatest accomplishment (to the extent I can take credit for anything) is that I love my Savior. I often get sidetracked with other things and forget about God while ‘doing things in His name’ among other bone-headed things, but when God wakes me up I am a devoted lover of God.
3. My second greatest accomplishment, for which I can take no credit, is that I’m married to a wonderful woman named Grace. She’s my best friend. Right now she works in the corporate world for a large media company, but she has dozens of business ideas for the future, some of which include yarn.
4. I believe that it’s important to submit to people (especially those you love), and allow other people to call the shots sometimes – but I am often distrustful of authority figures and large organizations…so I understand what a miracle it is for people to submit to one another and really work together with all their hearts…
5. I am an INTJ. I was completely socially-retarded for most of my life – so if I don’t seem to know what to say in a social situation, it’s because I don’t. But I’m good at listening.
6. I am ordained in a denomination called the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America).
7. Some people know me from the few years I pastored a college ministry in Amherst area, called Amherst Koinonia Church (AKC) – I had fun, and still run into people from the Five Colleges.
8. I am s-l-o-w-l-y finishing a started a doctorate in Urban Ministry at Westminster Seminary – but decided not to finish it because if I’m just going to do something for myself, I’d rather shoot for making lap records on my bike (not that I’m anywhere near close).
9. I prefer two-wheels to four so when I’m not riding my motorcycle I’m riding Grace’s little red Buddy Scooter… People sometimes want to know what kind of bike I ride – an old (pretty much stock)  CBR 600RR…
10. Some people think I look/act like the Mac guy, but I actually prefer PCs… the new MacBook Air is making me think that waiting 15 seconds for my Thinkpad to come out of hibernate is 14 seconds too long.

If you want to connect or want to keep in touch, add me as a FaceBook friend!  Also check out the CF FB page –> link should be somewhere on the right…