{"id":1993,"date":"2011-09-01T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/?page_id=1993"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:56:10","slug":"mike-stelle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/speaker-team\/mike-stelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Stelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ywupdate\/speaker-team\/\">\u2190 back to Speaker Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 19px\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/Mike-Stelle.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[1993]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1994\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/Mike-Stelle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Info<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Seminars: <\/strong><em>We\u2019re Here to Serve<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Currently serving as:<\/strong> Associate Pastor for Youth and Young Adults for Harbor Covenant Church<br \/>\n<strong>Credentials:<\/strong> Ordination to Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Covenant Church<br \/>\n<strong>URL:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborcovenant.org\/index.html\">visit here<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Bio<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Spiritual journey:<\/strong> I prayed a version of the sinner\u2019s prayer multiple times during elementary school just to \u201cmake sure I was in\u201d. During those years my conversion had more to do with fire insurance than it did with a relationship with God. All of that changed in Jr. High during a Spring Break Retreat with my youth group. On that retreat I was overwhelmed by the reality that God loved me more than I had ever dared to imagine. In response to that love I committed myself to living in relationship with God and to serve him all the days of my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call to ministry:<\/strong> I never wanted to be a pastor. In fact I wanted to be a high school history teacher and a basketball coach and to serve God in that capacity. While in college (after studying the book of Jonah with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) I made a deal with God\u2026if He wanted me in ministry as a profession I would go but I wasn\u2019t going to \u201cknock on any doors\u201d but if He opened a door I would step through. Soon after I accepted the call to be a Jr. High intern at a church in Ventura, CA. The group experienced tremendous growth and the church soon made my position a full-time position. 20 years later I am still working with young people and loving every minute of it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am passionate about:<\/strong> Seeing the light go on behind a person\u2019s eyes! Those moments where an individual begins to realize that God loves them just the way they are and not how they should be&#8230;when young people see the story of God come alive and begin to understand that they are part of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been involved in ministry?<\/strong> I have been in ministry since 1990 (1 year at Hope Community Church in Sacramento, CA; 7 years at Community Presbyterian Church in  Ventura, CA; 13 years at Harbor Covenant Church in Gig Harbor, WA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think is important that we know about you, as a member of the Speaker Team?<\/strong> My goal as a speaker is not to be the \u201cmain attraction\u201d but to set up the counselors to have significant conversations with the students. I have been told that I am a good story teller and I make the Bible come alive\u2026I\u2019m just try to celebrate the mystery that God does not need me but has chosen to use me despite me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1993&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 back to Speaker Team Info Seminars: We\u2019re Here to Serve Currently serving as: Associate Pastor for Youth and Young Adults for Harbor Covenant Church Credentials: Ordination to Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Covenant Church URL: visit here Bio Spiritual journey: I prayed a version of the sinner\u2019s prayer multiple times during elementary school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":1843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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