MY STORY: brad klaver

Role
Discipleship Coordinator

Email  
bklaver@crossroads-bible.org

Best part about my role?
I think that one of the best parts about this role is to be given the opportunity to have a front row seat at watching God use people to bring movement and growth in his Kingdom.  I get so pumped when people catch God’s vision for both their lives and the lives of their neighbors.  Nothing in this world is more exciting than seeing someone follow Jesus, grow in that relationship with Him and then pass that on to others...just as they are.  The reality is that God uses simple, broken people who are in process...and it is so exciting to be in a role that allows me to see the dynamic movement of God in a person’s life and in tern see the Kingdom of God grow through them.

Faith story?
While I was raised in a Christ-centered home where I was taught the importance of reading the Bible, praying and pursuing a relationship with Jesus, my relationship with Him never reached a point of true depth or focus.  My relationship with Christ was never more than surface level and was always more about appearance and influence than truth and genuineness.  I lived this way for many years and it caused me to become judgmental and hypocritical.  This continued into college until God brought me to a place of complete brokenness...a place where my weak and shallow foundation caused me to walk away from the Lord for several months.  During what has been the darkest time of my life, I felt alone...but God never left me...he was present through all of it...I just didn’t see it.

In a month that would signal the end of that desert time, I began to see God for who he truly is.  I began to understand his deep love and passion for me, his care and concern for me life.  I began to know His Son, Jesus, in an intimate way.  For the first time, I began to see the Bible as alive, as a story of God’s love and salvation for His people.  Prayer became a real conversation with a loving Father, who desires to know and speak to our hearts.  He brought me out of darkness and into light and He has never stopped revealing things to me about Himself.

If you were a color, what color would you be?
Green...don’t know why...just think it is a great color.

What is your favorite place on earth?
My favorite place on earth is Cape Town, South Africa.  I have never been to a more beautiful place...beaches, mountains, wildlife, people.  So beautiful.

Makes you laugh?
Do the Zimbabwean Chicken Dance...so much better than our American Chicken Dance...but don’t expect to see me do it any time soon.  This only happens when I am actually WITH Zimbabweans.