Meet Charlie.

What is your ministry background?
Served the last 18 years in full-time ministry in the United Methodist Church

What is your favorite part of being an Orange Specialist?
I love helping smaller churches formulate strategies to help them engage students in their church and the community.

What are your 3 must-read ministry books?
Dare to Lead
Radical Candor
The 7 Checkpoints

What are your top 3 pet peeves?
Squeezing water bottles
Servers touching the rim of my drinking glass
My kids never return text messages

Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about?
I can play the piano. In fact, I would play for our church service growing up when the real pianist was out sick. 

If you could be anywhere other than here right this minute, where would you be?
St. John, USVI

Flashback to when you were 10 years old. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A teacher

How do you want people to remember you?
That I was compassionate while still being honest. And my magnificent dance moves.

What do you want to make sure you do before you die?
See the Northern Lights ( it is not as easy as you think)

What’s a goal you have for yourself that you want to accomplish in the next year?
Implement more silence days.

What do you do with friends in your spare time?
Play Bocce Ball and Line Dance

If you had $100 and the day to yourself, what would you do?
Get my hair blown out.