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Hi, I’m Ronnie, the Lead Pastor of Relevant Community Church. My wife, Kristy, and I are from Lincoln, Nebraska. We
met on the first day of high school in Spanish class (“Is that your real eye color?”) and started dating four years later.
We were married on June 17, 2000 at the ripe old age of 20 years old. After a few brief stints in college, we moved to
Chicago in December of 2001 where I graduated from Moody Bible Institute. In 2004, I took a job as a youth pastor in
Birmingham, AL. It was nice getting out of the Midwest cold, but the people in the south could never get used to us calling
carbonated beverages “pop.” In 2006, I started and pastored a church in Birmingham called New Era Ministries. Before starting
New Era Ministries, I had worked primarily with high school students for eight years. I served with Rosemont Alliance Church
in Lincoln, Youth for Christ, Willow Creek Community Church and the Willow Creek Association in
Chicago, Mountaintop Community Church in Birmingham, and Guardian Charities – a student ministries consulting and short-term
missions organization. I also traveled the country speaking at conferences, retreats, events and camps.
Kristy and I have two beautiful daughters: Grace and Reese. Grace was born in December of 2005, and Reese was born in
February of 2008. We moved to Omaha from Birmingham in November of 2008 because we felt called to start Relevant Community
Church (Read more about Why We Started Relevant).
I grew up going to church, but by the time I was in high school I thought Christianity was a joke. Like most people, I was
looking for something to fill the longings of my heart, but never thought God was the one to fill it. I desired freedom more
than anything, but thought God was the last person to give it. The whole God and Jesus thing just didn’t seem real. So, I did
what a lot of guys do...I turned to girls. After being in a sexual relationship with a girl for over a year, she informed me
toward the end of my sophomore year that she might be pregnant. Thankfully it turned out to be a false alarm, but I knew
something in my life needed to change. I was looking for fulfillment and freedom in the wrong places and was coming up short.
About that time I started attending Youth for Christ/Campus Life Clubs at my high school. I built a strong relationship with
the club director who patiently showed me that Jesus Christ was the only person that could fulfill the desires of my heart,
and give me true freedom. Deciding that I had nothing to lose, I opened myself up to the idea of God and put my faith in Jesus
Christ by asking him to forgive my sins and be the Leader of my life. Since that moment I have grown more in love with Jesus.
While my life is by no means perfect, and is still filled with ups and downs, Jesus is my true fulfillment. He has given me joy,
hope, purpose and freedom. I believe being followers of Christ is what we were created for and what makes our lives worth
living.
To be a man of God, to love my wife, to be a great daddy, and to lead God’s Church.
Phone: 402-957-5966
Email: ronnie@relevantcommunity.org
Facebook: Visit Me
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