What's With the HNK?

It, like me, is short and to the point.

Married To Kim

My wonderful companion-for-life grew up in Kent, Washington, and is a graduate of Western Washington University.  The wedded bliss began in ’87.  She teaches pre-K 4 year olds part-time at the Mustard Seed Christian Preschool in Hillsboro, OR.

My Role As A Father

I am the father of 4 awesome and mighty teens and young adults:

• Robert - serving in the US Army (infantry), 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, NY; recently completed a year's deployment in Afghanistan.
• Stephen - junior at George Fox University, majoring in math and philosophy, on his school's varsity speech and debate team, president of his campus' International Justice Mission chapter; and a Ford Family Foundation Scholar.
• Hope - freshman and a Leadership Scholar at George Fox University,  majoring in biology, spent the summer on a missions trip in Panama with her cousins.
• Hannah - junior at Lincoln High School, in the youth group and youth choir at Portland Christian Center, helps in the the nursery at Mosaic Church, and has a pug named Finnigan.
  
  
  

My Life's Mission

• I am a communicator – a writer and a speaker – as well as a pioneer and a mentor.  I’ve always wanted to “go where no man had gone before.”  I have learned that while I cannot always do so geographically, I can do so missionally.  I am committed to taking the road less traveled.  Happily, that doesn’t mean going alone.
• I have a wonderful life partner in Kim.  Together our hearts beat for recruiting, training, mobilizing and supporting people who will join us in reconciling the alienated, freeing the oppressed and embracing the misfit.

What Am I Up to Now?

I have recently publish a missional book called Night Shift: Crossing the Cultural Line for the Kingdom.  As the Program Manager at the Northeast Emergency Food Program, I lead a team of staff and volunteers in providing food and clothing to thousands of clients each year, and serve on the management team for the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon.  I am also on the steering committee for the Cully Boulevard Alliance.  Our church home is Mosaic, where we attend the fourth Sunday service at 7 pm.  Kim and I lead a life group and serve as life group leader coaches, and Kim helps in the nursery.

What I've been up to the last 30 years or so...

Cross-cultural agent, educator, NGO administrator, team leader, missionary, conference speaker, minister, campus pastor, student (Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan; Ph.D. in theological ethics, Baylor University ’88), family man, friend

Roots

PK, South Jersey, college student, Florida, Texas, on the road in the Lower 48, Missouri, Taiwan, on the wall in Xi’an, on the trail in Portland

Personal Passions

Learning to live life on the authentic journey, chumming around with my wife, hanging out with my kids (Scrabble with our own house rules, Catan, Puerto Rico, movie night, meals), hiking, gardening, swimming laps, reading, writing, worship improv on my violin, chatting it up with the locals, building fireplace fires, tooling around in my workshop.

Political Persuasion

In a word - unique.

My Favorite Movies

1. Chariots of Fire 
2. Les Miserables  (1998)
3. Amazing Grace
4. The Mission
5. Princess Bride
6. Ladyhawk
7. Seabiscuit
8. Field of Dreams
   

What I like about living in Portland

(Oregon that is) the trees and Oh(!) the vistas, the endless hiking options, a writer’s haven, the Cascades, the Multnomah County library system, the urban trails, Powell’s Bookstore, the Arts, Southwest Community Center, the second hand stores, lots of fresh air, Home Depot, the weather, the city’s motto (“Keep Portland Weird”), rhubarb, NPR, my '89 Chevy pickup, the neighborhoods, my home