Monthly Archives: February 2009

The idea for Technologia kai o Poimentas comes out of my work in supporting ministers and ministries in using technology. I got into this thing we now call “technology” quite by accident in 1969. I was freshly discharged from 4 years service in the U. S. Army, and I needed a job. My father worked at Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and he knew they needed a computer operator. After I learned to operate computers, I wanted to learn how to program them, so I changed my major at Purdue, University. The rest, as they say, is history — my history I guess, which leads to this blog.
I knew the Lord in my youth, but walked away as a young adult. (Where have you heard that before?) The truth is that I wanted nothing to do with God from about 14 until the Lord reeled me back in at 46 yrs. old. That 32 years in the wilderness would have ended in my death, had the Lord not intervened. I knew that as soon as He called me, so I took it all very seriously. After 20 years in software engineering, during the birth of the Information Age no less, and another 9 years in digital graphics, I left the business world and became a pastor. While I was still working in digital graphics, I attended evening classes at Bible college and then at seminary. I finished up seminary while I served as an associate pastor. By the time I turned 52 years old,  I had earned a Master in Pastoral Studies, and a Master of Divinity from Azusa Pacific University, and I was ordained as a staff pastor at Horizon Christian Fellowship, in San Diego, California.
Because of my background in digital technology, Horizon asked me [...]