Today you're going to get to listen to one of my favorite conversations I've had with one of my favorite pastors

Pete Yoshona's from all shores Wesleyan Church in Spring Lake Michigan

In our conversation we talk about worship, the value in life of spiritual

disciplines, and how his church is using First 15 to go deeper in God as a community.

I know that today's conversation will bless you, encourage you, and empower you.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Man, Pete,

Pete, thanks so much for being with us today on our podcast.

It's been so great to get to know you the past couple years

and what God's doing at all shores at your church

and just what God's doing in your life and your leadership and who you are.

And so I'm thrilled to talk with you for myself and thrilled for the first of team audience to get to hear what God's doing

and your serve influence. So thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having us, Craig. I'm thrilled to hang out with you, you know, getting to know

you being a part of engaging with First 15 as a local church

personally has been really meaningful and I'm just a fan of what you're doing

and what God's doing through you and I get reminded of it every time I engage in my quiet this way. So I'm grateful on the ongoing

impact that you're having in my life.

Man, thanks so much, Pete. Let's just jump right in. I love for our listeners to hear how you became a pastor, kind of your story into ending up where you are today.

Sure. Well, it is not the, I was 17 and felt called, not at in fact you know I went to college in Holland

Michigan to a college called Hope College with the intention to be a doctor my

dad was a physician I thought I would go on that track, and about my software

year I was playing in a Christian rock band as a side thing. I'm sitting refluxing

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