About Me

Jonathan has worked for years as a senior counselor with at-risk kids in the wilderness.  He has worked at Sunhawke Academy in Utah, Aspen Youth Adventures in South Carolina, Outdoor Therapeutic Program and Eckerd Academy of the Blue Ridge in Georgia.  His experience includes planning and leading wilderness excursions, training new counselors and supervising daily activities.  He has been trained as a Wilderness First Responder for over 12 years and has completed Therapeutic Crisis Management training.  He studied primitive arts at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Utah and completed an Outdoor Educator course, a 28 day primitive arts field course, and taught survival skills to other participants as an intern at the school. While these experiences have given him a foundation for the experience of adventure, his heart is one of discipleship and rooting people in their life in Christ. 

"Journey into the Deep" blog – quote from Jonathan:
"We all are on a journey.  Some of us are on the road that leads to Life.  Some of us are on the road that leads to death.  Growing up, I was told that the verses discussing these roads had to do with salvation.  I was told that not a ton of people will be saved because the verse says that the road to Life is narrow and few find it.  I also was told that many were going to hell because that road is wide and many find it.  And then one day the Lord changed my paradigm.  I was reading in Col. 3:3-4.  It says that our life is hidden with Christ in God—it goes on to say that Christ IS our Life.  I realized that although I was saved, much of my life and the choices I made were spent on the road that leads to death.  I loved the Lord, but many decisions I chose in life were not in faith and done many times without spending much time seeking the will of the Father.  I realized that it was time for me to switch roads, and journey on the one that leads to Life—that is the one that leads to Him."

Deu 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live…

More info on the discipleship pilgrimages at http://journeyintothedeep.myadventures.org/