staff & elders :: taylor vernon

taylor vernon, elder

as an elder, what is the one thing that comes up daily in your life that you would like prayer for?

utter dependence on Jesus, especially when it comes to loving my family, friends, and neighbors.

born: february 26, 1967, in baton rouge

hometown: baton rouge... broadmoor high school.

married: angel vernon... may 30, 1992.

what's your favorite thing about being married to angel?

discovering the things i do not know about her and watching the changes she goes through as God works in her.

kids: nicholas taylor vernon... 12 years old and rebekah marie vernon... 9 years old.

what's your favorite thing about being nicholas and rebekah's dad?

favorite thing is the love and trust my kids shower on me.

siblings: jimmy vernon and melvin vernon. i am in the middle.

if you and your siblings were any television family, who would you be?

guess i need to watch more tv, because i can not think of any that work.

job/profession: vidrine automotive inc... controller (accountant). accounting work, debits, credits, making music on an adding machine.

hobbies and/or hidden talents: reading, basketball.

passion(s):

learning how to love others better and putting that into practice.

finish one of the following sentences: on the weekends, i am most likely... or when no one is looking, i am most likely... or when driving in the car by myself, i am most likely... or in the shower, i am most often singing...

i am most likely thinking...pick one of the statements.

favorite Bible verse or the one that most explains where you are:

mark 12:30-31. i like it because it is a clear vision of what we are to be about in life.

favorite memory of the ring and favorite memory of one of the other elders or staff members:

one of my favorite memories: a night back when the ring was yet not a church in the way it is now. josh had walked down from the stage, and people began praying for him. reaux took the mic and started going through the book of acts. then the prayer just grew more and more and my awareness of the Lord's presence was intense. reaux grabbing that mic and speaking those words - one of my favorite elder memories...

moment/how you knew God was calling you to be a part of the ring:

short of writing a book about that... a summation will have to do... from my first night at the ring there has always been a sense of people changing from the inside through their relationship with God in Christ, and that in partial, working itself out in and through their relationships with each other. so much grace expressed through so many different people...what a wonderful foundation woven by God to have a local group of people become a church from. for me personally having not come from a community in that sense, God was clear that my continuing in following Jesus requires such a community.