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timeline of life

A timeline: (I like timelines)

A quick recap and then a glance into the future…

1998

*God’s grace rayed down on me: Kate and I met one another.
*I completed junior college (finally)
*Worked as a bartender for Claim Jumper Restaurant.
*Kate’s reading: Earnest Becker, William James, Dostoyevsky, and Ayn Rand.
*My reading: Greg Bahnsen, John Calvin, Cornelius Van Til, Gary North, Rousas Rushdooney, Louis Berkhof, and C.S. Lewis.

1999

*Began my studies at UCLA-- began my community service work that would eventually lead to my employment as a middle school teacher.
*Kate takes the high school equivalency exam and begins junior college.
*I begin my journey to Orthodoxy-- certain questions about certain Protestant presuppositions begin to form.
*Kate stopped attending her family’s Mormon church.
*Kate’s reading: Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther, Douglas Coupland, C.S. Lewis, Greg Bahnsen, Bruce Shelley, and Walter Martin.
*My reading: Arthur Pink, Loraine Boettner, Michael Horton, Thomas Aquinas, Herman Melville, Douglas Coupland, J.R.R. Tolkien.

2000

*Began Law Fellows Program through UCLA law school.
*I purchased the 38 volume Church Fathers collection for Kate on Valentine’s Day.
*Took the Law School Admission Test
*Kate begins employment with IN-N-OUT Burger.
*Spent summer working 40 hours a week as a pre-literacy coach in an East Los Angeles preschool.
*Kate worked as an English tutor at Santa Ana College.
*I continued my struggle with Protestantism.
*Kate’s reading: Scott Latourette, Mary Shelley, and various church histories.
*My reading: Mark Shea, Scott Hahn, F.F. Bruce, Ronald Dworkin, Phillipa Foot, Rene Descartes, and Plato.
*Kate and I both read Brothers Karamazov. Our literary lives have not been the same since.

2001

*Kate and I are baptized at Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda by Pastor Ron Gleason.
*I Graduated from UCLA with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in Education
*My sister, Heidi, graduated from Huntington Beach High School.
*Spent five weeks in Houston, Texas at Teach for America’s “boot camp.”-- worked as a summer-school teacher at Attucks Middle School.
*Began graduate work in Secondary Education at Loyola Marymount University.
*Began Teaching 6th grade English and Social Studies at Hosler Middle School in Lynwood, California.
*Kate and I both began to consider Orthodoxy with ever greater urgency.
*Kate’s reading: Spurgeon, Shakespeare, Eusebius, Ante-Nicene Fathers, and books on Mormonism.
*My reading: Dostoyevsky, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Phillip Schaff, Jaroslav Pelikan, John Meyendorff, Turgenev, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

2002

*On Kate’s 18th birthday I proposed to her, she accepted.
*Began attending Orthodox services permanently after “visiting” during Holy. Week.
*Kate begins studying History at California State University, Long Beach.
*Began teaching 7th and 8th grade Reading and English at the same school.
*Kate is promoted to work at IN-N-OUT Burger’s corporate office.
*On December 22, Kate and I were Chrismated into the Orthodox Church at the hand of Bishop Anthony (now Metropolitan).
*On December 28, Kate and I were wed at St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church in Irvine California (happiest day of my life to date).
*Kate’s reading: Daniel Clendenin, Kallistos Ware, Peter Gillquist, All of John Grisham, Wally Lamb, various Russian history books.
*My reading: Kallistos Ware, Alexander Schmemann, Daniel Clendenin, Vladimir Lossky, Frank Schaeffer, Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky.

2003

*Witnessed our dear friend Wayne Nikolai-Toshikazu Olson Chrismated into the Orthodox Church.
*Graduated with a Masters degree in Secondary Education from Loyola Marymount.
*Celebrated our first Pascha as married Orthodox Christians.
*Our family grows with the addition of "kitty witty", our new kitten.
*Kate’s reading: Jim Forrest, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Fr. John Mack, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, and John Breck.
*My reading: Jaroslav Pelikan, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Fr. John Mack, and Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

Up coming…(Lord willing)

*Kate is taking a break from her studies at the University.
*I’m spending my summer, beginning June 23rd, taking a ten-week intensive Greek course at UCLA.
*August 13th I begin my law training at Chapman University Law School in Orange, California.

2006

*(Lord willing) I’ll be graduating from law school.
*(Lord willing) I’ll pass the Bar.
*(Lord willing) Kate and I will begin the purchase of a home.
*(Lord willing) Kate and I will begin having children.

Posted by jeremy stock at June 7, 2003 12:17 PM