Pastor Colin

colindeay@gmail.com

I grew up in upstate NY and attended the Eastman School of Music to study percussion. My second week at Eastman, I met Jesus. I had grown up in the church, but without any real feeling that I might know God personally, and with no understanding of the beautiful gospel of grace. Through Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, I heard the gospel message clearly preached and (shockingly to me) people my own age passionately worshiping him and following him in the ways they lived their lives. My life was changed. By the end of my time at Eastman, I knew that God was calling me out of the career in music I had envisioned and into a life of full time church ministry.

I married my wife Sarah in 2014, and the next year we moved to Dallas, TX so I could begin a degree at Redeemer Seminary (I eventually graduated through Reformed Theological Seminary in Dallas). Throughout seminary and four years as worship director at a small Presbyterian church, God continued to shape my mind and my heart, and in 2021 I knew that God was calling me to church planting, a call I had begun to sense nearly 10 years before. As we have begun to plant Open Door Presbyterian Church, I have seen God’s faithfulness at every turn, in the beautiful and in the painful, and I am so excited to see what he is going to do in the future.

A few facts of a more random nature: the first instrument I really loved playing was marimba, and I still enjoy playing and writing for it! I also do a good bit of songwriting, mostly for the church but some folk music as well (and every once in a while a love song or two for Sarah). I love almost all sports, coffee, science fiction (especially Ray Bradbury), and poetry. I am incredibly thankful for my wife, Sarah, who is the world’s greatest librarian. Most of all, I’m thankful to God for his unfailing love.