Prayers From The Water's Edge: Prayers, Prose, and Poetry About God's Love and Our Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539813286)

Craig Finnestad holds academic degrees from Drake University, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Emory University. He has also done post-doctoral research at St. Olaf College and the University of Copenhagen. His pastoral and academic interests are: prayer, the parables of Jesus, Sen Kierkegaard, church planting, and missions. He is an ordained elder in the Great Plains Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. After serving as a youth minister, associate pastor, and pastor at churches in Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa, and Texas-Craig planted The Water's Edge United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska in 2006. It is an innovative church focusing on ministry to children and students as well as local and international missions. The Water's Edge is a church of small groups with dozens of micro communities meeting weekly throughout the Omaha area. Craig and his wife, Amber, have two children: Benjamin and David. Benjamin is on his high school debate team and enjoys refereeing soccer games. David loves sports-especially soccer, lacrosse, and basketball. They all share a giant Newfoundland dog named Esther. Craig enjoys mentoring church plants, coaching youth soccer, smoking meat, taking pictures, reading, comedy, and writing. He regularly blogs at craigfinnestad.com.