Roger Courville, MA, CSP

Good husband, bad guitarist, dad of three grown children, curious to a fault. I’m nuts about helping people fall in love with Jesus and finding purpose His kingdom. My preference is dialogue vs monologue, but I’ll just have to pretend you just asked about me:

  • I’m a spirit farmer and teacher. How much of each depends on whether the context is listening or talking. I’d like to think I do both reasonably well, but I’m imagine I fail as much as I succeed. If you want “titles,” a pastor-type who’s professor-ish.

  • I’m a hopelessly curious lifelong learner. I’m currently working on my Doctorate in Ministry (in spiritual formation) at Denver Seminary. I’m done with all classwork, so not working on my thesis project and verrrrry long paper in the area of “conversation as spiritual formation.”

  • I’m an interdisciplinary dot-connector: connecting people to God, people to people, people to ideas, the temporal to eternal, the present to history and future.

Perhaps most importantly, after being a disciple of Jesus, I’m Kristine’s taco chef (here’s a little more of our story in pictures).

Philosophy of Ministry

Jesus meets you where you’re at, but He’s not content to leave you where you’re at, right? His mission is my mission. With those outside the church, the goal is Jesus. With those inside the church, the goal is more Jesus. It’s relational, not transactional. It connects principle and practice to head, heart, and hands.

As regards the podcast, you can go anywhere and hear a great voice, but “reading through the Bible together” means doing it like we would do together over coffee — making transitional comments and leaving in “keepin’ it real” moments. I often answer listener questions (anonymously), and pray frequently. We do it every single day because we need spiritual food daily.

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Kristine and I are currently praying about where God would have us serve next — and we’re happy to have that be anywhere in the world.

Currently, in any given month I also serve as an Associate Pastor in Residence at Journey Church Tacoma, help guys in addiction recovery at Union Gospel Mission, meet people old and new for spiritual conversation (on site or online), play on the worship team, make guest appearances, and generally be pastoral to a hurting world.

Highlights that might help you refer me appropriately are the following passions:

  • Integrated life: Head and heart — Master’s in Apologetics, 1/2 way through my DMin in Spiritual Formation; Sunday and Monday — workplace ministry, community outreach and formation

  • Wiring: Strengthsfinder — Ideation, Input, Strategic, Connectedness, Communication, Futuristic, Learner, Activator; Core Values Index — Innovator Merchant

  • Topical strengths: Communication and connectedness in a digitally-extended life; worldview formation/answering the big questions of life; spiritual gifts/calling; relational spirituality; psychometric inventories

  • Coaching/mentoring/discipleship, certifications include: Leadership (John Maxwell Team); Core Values Index; Relational Spirituality (Spiritual Transformation Inventory) (in progress)

Keywords for my next role include:

  • Role: Associate pastor or pastor under a strong group of elders, pastoral care, spiritual formation/discipleship, small groups, curriculum development, teaching/facilitation, preaching/teaching, community engagement.

Consider: Think about how some sports teams or bands start with a primary role BUT THEN build on the unique strengths of each member they have (versus trying to squeeze someone neatly into a generic job description).

I’ll thrive best on that kind of team.

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