Pastor Jon Gibson

Me?
I was born in Wisconsin and have spent the past 19 years here in the great state of Ohio.  On June 3, 2000 I began an amazing journey with my wife Heather as we stood before God and were made one in marriage! Oh and what an awesome journey it has been so far, I would recommend it highly to anyone, marriage is great! Our girls! God has blessed Heather and I with two beautiful girls, Morgan and Marlee. It has been an amazing experience seeing our girls grow. I've always thought that I wouldn't be a giant sucker like my dad was and is for my sister.  I was wrong, from the day of their first beautiful cries when they came into the world, my girls owned me! I love sci fi and fantasy books and movies! (star trek TNG rules!) love golf and other sports, love design and connecting people to God's truth through art, and most of all love spending time with my fam and longs walks on the beach LOL!

My Faith!
I accepted Jesus into my heart when I was a young child, but growing up in a Christian home, my faith wasn't my own until the age of 13 when I decided to begin a journey with Jesus for myself.  3 years later I was at a place in my journey where God was leading me to give everything to Him, my plans, my hopes, my dreams, my pain.  It was then that I finally took hold of His calling on my life to serve Him wherever He wanted me. That surrender has led me through many amazing God moments and brings me to where I am today. Serving Him and learning to be more like him through the community of Living Hope!
One of the things I find truly amazing is how God allows us to live out His vision of true community with others. I have discovered deep and more authentic faith through REAL relationships with other followers of Christ at Living Hope! What a powerful thing it is to live life without barriers and religious facades and this is were I believe true authentic relationship with God and others happens!

Inspirations from God's Truth
Phillipians 3:13-14 "Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God  has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

Psalm 63 "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld your power and glory Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You...(read on)