The Team: Brad Vermurlen

Sep 14, 2009 Print This Post

Brad
I thought I’d bring back my old Monday tradition (at least for this week) of highlighting a Riv team member. Today’s victim is Brad Vermurlen.
Brad started coming around Riv when he was a high school student. He since defected to the University of Michigan where he graduated with high honors. Now he is a Grad Student working toward his PhD in Sociology at Notre Dame. In his spare time, he works as a Research Team Captain at Docent Research Group. The bottom line is Brad is an uber talented, wicked smart, incredibly busy dude.

And yet he finds time to volunteer as my Research Assistant. I bounce my message ideas off of him, often sending him my first drafts and then he goes to work like a rabid research monkey. After a day or so (sometimes literally within hours), I open my inbox to find a research paper that contains all kinds of sources, statistics, analysis, and other assorted goodies to enhance my message. He also challenges my direction or take on different topics if he feels like I am in error or am misstating the facts.

I can’t begin to tell you how valuable Brad is to the team. Actually, I think I just began to do so. Sorry…I felt like I needed to clear that up otherwise Brad would rebuke me for misstating the facts. It’s just how he rolls.

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Growing up in the Lansing area, I wanted nothing more than to get out. My exit strategy included a complex mixture of schemes for an urban church plant, iProducts, and an elaborate Bollywood car chase scene with zombies and catchy techno music.

As a 40 year old man, I find myself entrenched in the Lansing area at a church I love (Riverview), with 4 kids I love more (a high schooler, a junior higher, a middle schooler, and an elementary schooler), and a wife I love the most (Grace).

Instead of planting one church, I dream of helping hundreds get started without ever leaving my home base. I still love my iProducts and use them as tools to help lead and teach the thousands who attend Riverview. And when no one is looking, I blare the techno music and send my unimpressive resume to casting agents for Bollywood zombie films.

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