Bios are Weird
By Len on Oct 23, 2011 in General
It’s strange to write a short bio about yourself, if you haven’t had to do one, try.
Here’s the latest one that I wrote for an upcoming youth ministry book, that I have a chapter in:
Len is a youth ministry activist who oversees Texas and New Mexico for the National Network of Youth Ministries, serves on the advisory board for We Love Our Youth Worker US, and is the Pastor of Simply Soul Care, a free pastoral care service for youth workers. He’s written about youth ministry for over ten years and is a regular contributor to Group Magazine.
I think the most honest bio would be something like this:
Len is a dufus that has somehow been blessed far more than he deserves in most aspects of life. He’s been married for 20 years and that has a lot more to do with his wife, than him being a wonderful husband. His two girls are both amazing and for some reason God lets him try to nurture them to maturity despite being more likely to exasperate his children than lovingly listen to them. He’s written a lot over the years and it seems that God has put a hedge of protection over his submissions because they keep slipping by really good editors and publishers.
What qualifies him most to work for National Network of Youth Ministries, for Simply Youth Ministry as the Pastor of Simply Soul Care and serve on the advisory board of We Love Our Youth Worker US is this: He has survived and persevered through a variety of dangers, toils and snares associated with youth ministry and after all that, he’s able to offer comfort because of the comfort God has given him. In short ,he’s becoming a wounded healer and that seeps out whether he’s pastoring youth pastors, speaking or serving patients and families as a hospice chaplain.
That’d be too long for a blurb, but those two paragraphs would be awesome and I hope they are true. It’s always tricky writing your own bio.
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