About Chase

My Story

I grew up surrounded by ministry. My father was a youth pastor for the first ten years of my life. That time in ministry gave me a foundation of faith, but it wasn't until God led my father out of ministry that He started directing my steps. We landed back in my hometown in Missouri, and that's when I got connected with my local church.

Two questions changed the trajectory of my life.

The first: "Do you want some free food?" A student a few years older than me asked that when I was 12. Being the 12-year-old boy I was, I didn't hesitate! What I didn't expect was the catch... "Now you have to run a camera." I got roped into serving on the production team!!!! What started as a trick became the beginning of a journey I never could have planned.

The second: "If you could play any one instrument, what would it be?" My parents asked me that seemingly out of nowhere, but a few months earlier I'd been thinking, "Hm… bass guitar seems interesting." Looking back, God's hand was clearly at work. Within six months of picking it up, I was playing bass for our Christmas Eve service. My worship pastor needed a bassist badly enough to take a chance on a 14-year-old with six months of practice. And, thanks for what God was doing in my life, it worked out, and I continued serving on that team for years to come!

By the time college came around, four years of bass and a growing interest in how sound behaves in a room led me to pursue a degree in Music Technology at the University of Central Missouri. After graduating, I tried to follow the calling into ministry I'd felt since I was young, but God kept closing doors. The one door did open led me to a corporate production company called Harvest Productions, where I spent three and a half years learning how production actually works in the real world. Looking back, it was one of the biggest gifts God gave me. I would've never been ready for what came next without it.

What did come next was Journey Church in Wisconsin... my first time living far from home and in a place where I knew no one. It was a short 18 months stay, but the skills God had built in me at Harvest were put to the test when the rest of the production team moved on within 6 months of my arrival! God was faithful, and so was the training He'd given me. There, I learned how to care more deeply for people and also how to operate production in a church environment where resources are way more limited.

That brings me to where He has me now: the video technician at Abundant Life Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri. That's right... video technician... not audio. God has a sense of humor. These past few years have been the most formative of my life — spiritually, professionally, and personally. I've been stretched in ways I didn't expect, and I've grown in ways I couldn't have imagined.

When God Says Go

It's funny to watch God change you from the inside out as you draw closer to Him. In fact, this is something that I never saw coming.

In May 2025, I went on my first missions trip. It was to Croatia, and was my first time out of the country. I didn't know what to expect. What I found was a team so perfectly assembled that it could only have been God. Every person had a reason to be there. Every gift was needed. Every heart was pointed in the same direction.... toward the people of Croatia.

One moment has stayed with me above all others. We attended a church service and sang songs I knew... but in Croatian. It was the same God. It was the same worship. But it was a language that I didn't understand. In that moment, I was reminded of a deep truth: God is the God of all people, all tribes, all nations, all tongues. I had always believed that. But I had never felt it the way that I felt it in that room at that moment.

While there, I was fascinated by the language! I came home with an urge to learn Croatian. At the time I told myself it would just be for fun and if God wanted to use it, great!! But over the following months, through small experiences and unexpected relationships, God began moving my heart toward something I genuinely never thought I'd say... "I want to do long term missions in Croatia."

I remember being a teenager and saying out loud, "I will never be a missionary. It's just not my skillset."

Now here I am — not only open to it, but actively pursuing it.

While in Croatia I saw a real need. Most of the Protestant churches are small. They don't have the resources or the technical knowledge to use technology effectively in their ministry. I want to be that resource. Not to come in and tell them what to do, but to come alongside them. To ask what God has set their church up for, and figure out how technology can better serve that vision. And in doing so, to be a small voice of unity. We are one body in Christ Jesus, and we are better and more effective for the Gospel when we work together!

God hasn't said "go" just yet. But my feet are in the water, and I'm watching to see what He does next.