Erik Ullestad
Erik Ullestad is currently Family Life and Youth Director at Windsor Heights Lutheran Church in Des Moines, IA. Follow him on Twitter @erikullestad and check out his blog at erikullestad.blogspot.com. Erik reviewed Traditions and wrote Leader Guide content for Ancestors. He would be voted the re:form contributor most likely to submit a manuscript at 3:00 a.m.
Family: Wife Allison (married 2001) and children Anna (8), Isaac (6), and Evan (4)
Youth ministry superpower: the ability to submit purchase receipts in an organized and timely manner
3 words that describe you: Musical | Contrarian | Family-man
3 words that describe sparkhouse: Emerging | Innovative | Peculiar
On your iPod:Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford and Sons, The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel, The Parting Glass by The High Kings
Favorite ancestor:Jonah. I’m bad with conflict. Sometimes the belly of a big fish doesn’t seem like so bad a place.
Dinner guest (in addition to Jesus, of course): Walter Payton (my favorite athlete)
A favorite theologian quote: The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
A favorite pop culture figure quote: I hope I never get so old I get religious. (Ingmar Bergman)
A favorite quote from your Mom: Be happy (told to me right before my wedding)
If your Sunday school teacher knew you’d be creating Sparkhouse resources, what would she or he say? …doubtful…
Your work on re:form is a success if a youth responded by saying: uh..dude…it, like, didn’t suck as much as I thought it would.