Damon Joseph Gray was born in Plainville, Kansas in 1961. He took his undergraduate degree from Baker University, studying Mass Communication with an emphasis in radio broadcasting and newsprint. A year later, Damon enrolled in the Harding University School of Biblical Studies where he studied the Bible for two years. In 2012, Damon completed his Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Management at Capella University.
Damon is a driven man, and very relationally oriented. He enjoys transparent, late-night discussions with dear friends. Damon looks for those friends with whom long periods of silence are okay, friends who can simply look at one another and know the message is, “I like being with you.” His dearest friend in the world is his high-school sweetheart, his wife, Alean Melinda.
Damon describes himself as a “geek,” employed in Business Services IT with Anvil Corporation in Bellingham, Washington, having worked in software development since 1995. Prior to that, Damon served in full-time ministry, mostly with university students, and the majority of that at the University of Kansas.
Damon is fascinated by politics in the sense that he is intrigued by it and repulsed at the same time. He has a lifelong love for good music. He sings and plays the trombone, having sung his first public solo when he was about six.
Damon currently resides in Lynden, Washington, with his wife, Alean and their cat, Mister Bear.
Finding Faith in Slow Motion
Without faith it is impossible to please God, right? How can I rest in that reality when I cannot say with certainty what that faith stuff even is?
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ROOTED: First Steps for New Christ-Followers
ROOTED is a ten-session course designed to guide new and young Christ-followers through a series of discipleship basics. The intent is to provide a foundation and framework for the new life in Christ with Jesus as the cornerstone to that foundation (Isaiah 28:16-17, Ephesians 2:20). This is not a comprehensive course in discipleship. The intent of this study is only to get you, the reader, a running start at your new life in Christ.
[You are] fellow citizens with God’s people and members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
– Ephesians 2:19-20, NIV-1978
To build our foundation, this series of studies follows the pattern of the first Christ-followers, those who came to faith in Christ on the day of Pentecost, responding to the Acts 2 sermon delivered by the apostle Peter.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
– Acts 2:42 NIV-1978