Role
Youth Pastor

Email  
DTaatjes@crossroads-bible.org

Your role at Crossroads?
I get the privilege of working with students.  My passion is to encourage and equip young people to be wholly devoted to their Savior Jesus Christ.

Best part about your role?
Seeing God truly grip a young heart and transform it to the image of His Son.  Salvation in Jesus is not just a prayer, it is a life change and a personal choice to follow Jesus with our whole hearts.

Your Faith Story?
I came to know the Lord at the young age of seven but it was not until my college years that the lights turned on and I understood the commitment and continual heart change that must occur to following God on the straight and narrow path. By God's grace I am a work in progress and am trying to discover each day how to be more lie Jesus.

Your favorite place on earth ?
I generally love to be in God's creation. Whether by the sea, in the mountains, or on a golf course, I marvel at the majestic glory of God's creation.

Makes you laugh?
Lots of things. People in general especially the care free hearts of students.  My wife and daughter crack me up on a regular basis as well.

Makes you cry?
Surprisingly a lot, I am a pretty emotional guy. What chokes me up the most is when I experience God bringing me and others back to Him through the repentance of sin.