Hello world!

Hello world!   

I am the husband of a pastor who is planting a new church in the city of Santa Clarita, California.  You will probably often hear me use the term “we” when I should probably use “her” or “me” or “I.”   I will try to be as accurate as I can, and I am confident that unless you are unusually or purposefully obtuse, you will understand what I mean in the context.

My wife’s name is Tess Cox.  She is a Master of Divinity graduate of Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.  We have been married for 27 years as of this writing and have endured, survived and thrived.    I wake up every morning completely delighted, amused, amazed, shocked and thrilled that we are locked into this “until death do us part” agreement.   Steel DOES sharpen steel.   If sparks ensue….then so much the better!  I love her dearly, even when we don’t agree or I get pissed off.  I am humbled and in awe of her spiritual capacity, her depth of love for Jesus, her love for humanity, and her pastor’s heart.

We recently spent 4 days in Littleton, Colorado at an assessment process run by the Evangelical Covenant Church designed to probe and examine the nooks and cranny of our lives, psyches, personalities, spiritual processes (and a zillion other things I missed) in order to find out whether the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) and ourselves were a good fit.  After a whole bunch of thought and prayer we all agreed to move forward.

Our next steps are to finishing forming our core team/launch team, discuss and form our vision and core values and begin to look forward to actually launching a new church for Jesus Christ in the  Santa Clarita Valley sometime on 2009.

As I have looked at many, many websites, read 4 billion blogs, lurked on another trillion web forums,  read magazines, papers, and books….I see very little written from the pastor’s husband’s point of view.   So, for better or worse, here we go…stay tuned!