KENDALL MOORE

EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE

KENDALL.MOORE@USAVE.COM

I accepted Christ at the age of 12 in 1975 at the Billy Graham Crusade in Jackson. I remember it vividly. My folks had divorced when I was five, and my mom had remarried my step-dad, Bob Holleman. His mother, Ruth Holleman, had taught Sunday School at Calvary Baptist Church forever. Calvary became my home, and Joe Tuten became my pastor.

By the time that I was in High School, I had learned that trying to excel to make other people happy just didn't work. Then I tried doing things just for me. That didn't satisfy, either. In my Junior year, I locked in to Colossians 3:23, and I got really serious about my faith. Trying to please God became a passion, and it changed my life.

I was personally mentored and discipled by men like Lee Shaw with Youth for Christ, Don Witzel, my youth minister, and Joe Tuten, who became like a grandfather to me, my confidant and my mentor in many ways. Other men added to that foundation in college, through Campus Crusade and the BSU and other student ministries. As a result, I place a high value on small group discipleship and personal mentorship, and I have a passion for working with young people and young adults.

I have struggled with a call to ministry ever since high school. My problem is that I could never figure out the difference between the unique call people seemed to have to serve in a church setting, and the call all of us have to individual, vocational ministry. As a result, I've played at ministry all my life, and I've continued to ask God all along the way if it was time to change my vocational path.

I went to engineering school at MSU and law school at Ole Miss, and I went to work for a large law firm for the next 13 years. Beth and I married in 1984, and in 1988, we joined Broadmoor, where we met Tom and Jana McDonnell. In 2000, Tom asked me to become his in-house lawyer, and he encouraged the ministry activities that had become so vital to me personally, including serving in many capacities at Broadmoor.

In August 2006, Broadmoor asked me to help out on a part time basis as Executive Associate. I'm still humbled by the opportunity to work with our "real" staff. God has brought an amazing team of men and women together in this place for this moment. I delighted to work with them for a season, and I'm often amazed at what God is doing among us. I really believe that we can become the place where hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have never had a relationship with Jesus Christ can find hope and healing and comfort and salvation.

Thanks for letting me serve along side of you.