It’s been a crazy year.

At the beginning of the year I traveled to South Carolina, New York, and Maryland (ok, that one’s a short trip) to do some campaigning. I was hoping to find a job in a Presidential administration (assuming my candidate won, of course).

A side note (but a cool one) was that while campaigning I made my first trip to New York City.

Also at the beginning of the year I started attending Christian Masculinity 2.0 (which has had a major impact on my life) and launched this blog.

In March I was sitting in a Good Friday service at NCC, and I felt God renewing the call to ministry that He had placed on my life nearly seven years earlier. I stopped campaigning and started trying to figure out what was next.

In July, after much thought and heartache, I applied for and was accepted into the new one-year-internship program (i.e. Protege Program) at NCC.

During July, August, and September, I built a very large and robust new website for the House Committee that I worked for.

On September 7, I started working at NCC as a Protege, and on September 30, I quit my job on the Hill.

The fall was filled with retreats and conferences, but the one that had the biggest impact on me was the Catalyst conference in Atlanta.  Craig Groeschel spoke on “It,” and he and the Holy Spirit rocked my world.

In November 2007, I launched http://polfeeds.com, a website aggregating news from Congress, the President, and the Presidential campaigns, and in the two months leading up to the election it received 94,834 visits.  Along with this I built many Twitter accounts, some of which now have between 1,000 and 5,000 followers.

All in all, it’s been quite a busy year.  What’s on tap for 2009?  Stay tuned tomorrow for more.

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