Chip bursts with energy helping families build on strengths they have. He's enthusiastic about assisting congregations to support families in all their configurations too. Chip left the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly early so he'd be home for his children's first day of school. Chip's focus is on affirming families. Pressures from work, stresses from finances and demands from constant activity leave many people disconnected and bewildered.
Experts tell families to spend more time with their children.
And some religious groups tell them they're not doing a good job of teaching values. But Chip celebrates what families are doing well. The Bible shows families in different configurations. At Passover, small families joined with neighbors to eat all the lamb. Welcoming the stranger was big then.