My name is Benjamin Park. I love to read, watch teams from Minnesota win…sometimes…and, most of all, I love being married to my partner Felise and being a parent to our three children.

Also, I am an ordained PC(USA) minister who spent 7 years serving in full-time ministry. Originally I graduated from college thinking that I'd teach high school and serve a church in my spare time, but a few months after graduation God started getting me to imagine what doing ministry full-time might look like. A few months after that I was packing up my car and on my way to Princeton Theological Seminary.

In 2008 I received my first full-time call to a Korean immigrant church north of Seattle. There as the associate pastor for English and Education ministries, I had the incredible opportunity to work with college students, young professionals, and young couples to build a disciple-making community together. Although there were many ups and downs along the way, my wife and I were blessed to see how faithful God was to people who cried out to and sought him.

Yet even as my family and I loved our church family and experienced the joy of watching God-given fruit grow, deep down something was unsettling me. As the years in ministry passed, I kept hearing both second and first hand reports of ministries and pastors around the country experiencing frustration and heartbreak. At first I felt strongly that my calling was to stay the course in Seattle and to keep building up the ministry that I had been charged with. But eventually I began to see that something needed to be done, and I might have a role to play.

So after a long time in prayer and discussion with my wife, and an equally long time planning out my transition away from the church together with my head pastor and other leaders, I stepped down, moved my family back to my home state of Minnesota, and dedicated myself to both clarifying the issues facing the church and seeking a solution to them. I now understand the core issue I'm being called to focus on: stewarding the next generation of disciple makers. I'm committing the next chapter of my life to this, and this website is my first step.