About Known & Free
The late poet and novelist Maya Angelou famously said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you." I could not resonate more! Known & Free exists to be a hub for our stories. A place where we may share the gifts, talents, hopes, joys, sorrows, struggles, pain, and redemption that we often fearfully conceal. An opportunity to risk, release, open up, and invite others to see and know who we are. A hub where we can come together to stop saying "if they only knew". A place to hold tightly to the fact that we are fully known by a loving God, who came to earth that we might be free and fully alive. Your story matters! You are beautiful. You are not alone. Your journey isn't over yet, and your stories need to be told because we need to hear them to understand our own:
your STory Matters
“I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.”
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About Tyler
Tyler and Kimberlee are parents to two daughters: Miriam Elise and Evangeline Rose. Tyler and Kim are passionate about relational discipleship, teaching, the marginalized, emerging leaders, and non-believing people knowing that Jesus loves them beyond comprehension! Kim is also committed to helping college-aged woman follow Jesus. Additionally, she runs her own interior design business. Tyler began seminary at Seattle Pacific University in 2011, has worked previously at Amazon.com, University Pres. Church, and as a pastor at local congregation in Seattle. He also seeks to gather people from different backgrounds around Jesus and has helped to coordinate "Leadership Development": an inter-generational movement of Jesus-centered leaders.
PAST SPEAKING EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
- SUNDAY SERMONS
- COMMUNITY EVENTS
- RETREATS
- YOUNG LIFE
- CHURCH CAMPS
- UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
- LECTURES
- OUTREACH
- PARACHURCH