23
Dec
2009
Chris Thompson
A Bit About Me:
Born in Kansas City, MO on October 18th, 1969. I’ve also lived in Florida; Arizona; Colorado and several places in North Carolina. I am totally head over heels in love with my beautiful bride, Jenny. We share our lives with four (full of life) children. Cole, Noah, Sara and Jake. I’ve serve the local church as youth pastor for just over 15 years and started Radiant Life Fellowship in 2008. I have 2 younger brothers (Andy and Mark) who also live in North Carolina with their precious families. My parents (Jim & Morgan) live in Boone, NC and are retired. We’ve lived in the north Mecklenburg area since June of 1996.
In My Spare Time: I enjoy biking, reading, dating my wife (Jenny), playing anything with my kids (Cole, Noah, Sara, Jake), going to the beach, doing life with the people of Radiant Life and hanging with our neighbors.
Simple Pleasures:
skittles, chewing extra polar ice gum, laughing because of something one of our kids did or said, knowing I’ve got a date night coming up and a gift card to a restaurant
Loaded In My MP3:
Black Eyed Peas, Switchfoot, Nickelback, David Cook, One Republic, Chris Brown, Pink, Toby Mac, Kutless, Crowder, Lady Gaga, Cold Play, Kelly Clarkson, Newsboys, Skillet, Thriving Ivory.
What I Typically Do Around Radiant Life Fellowship:
As the Lead Pastor @ RLF, I network, cast vision, inspire, create, coach, teach, lead, preach, laugh a lot, build relationships, pray for and with people,
encourage people to Love God. Love People. Show that Love Wins…and I want the church to Prove it.
Favorite Quotes:
“You make everything glorious…what does that make me?” David Crowder
“Love people in such a way that they know how God feels about them.” — Rick Mckinley
“Value the image of God in all people, everywhere.”
“Love wins.” — a bumper sticker on the back of my white Rodeo
“Love can only exist in freedom.” — Anthony De Mello
“There is not a single moment in your life when you do not have everything that you need to be happy.” — Anthony De Mello
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Chris,
I’m starting a church in the Vance area this fall. I just want to chat ( @ Caribou Coffee, etc) sometime to see if we can work together to reach the unreached. I am using a ministry I began — http://www.v2tm.org — as my equipping platform. Our goal is to devlelop lives so we can produce ambassadors for Christ. I would like to pick your brain about the movies nights, gym nights, pool days, etc. Your thoughts sound incredibly similar to mine.
My passion is on equipping them once we win/find them.
Live OUT LOUD!
Markl Harrell