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Father Geof Morin
The Story:
Geof grew up as an "Episcopagan", as he says. He did all the church stuff, was nice guy but just had no relationship with Christ. By the time he got to college (Duke University as an Econ/Psych major) he thought he was ready to shed his good guy image. While doing the party and frat thing he met a guy who had an "internal dynamic and power" that Geof just couldn’t explain but who got him thinking. He spent three years trying to disprove this guy’s belief that there was more to being a Christian than just being a nice guy. But it finally was John 14:16 that broke through. It’s still his favorite verse. At that time Geof got involved with Intervarsity and Campus Crusade.
During his sophomore and junior summers he interned at the New York advertising firm, Saatchi and Saatchi, for whom he went to work after graduation. But in 1987 he came back to his home church where there was a non-existent youth ministry so he jump-started one. As things turned out he left the big job and the big city for a life in ministry. Pretty soon there was something called The Café that came to draw 400 kids a week! It was a Christian dance club for teenagers where they could come to hang out, hear a message and dance.
When it was time to move on Geof went to Yale Seminary because, he says, that they asked the hardest questions and it was theologically challenging. In 1994 he was ordained a Deacon at Christ’s Church in Gross Pointe, Michigan where Geof started another Café and focused on evangelism.
Since coming to Good Samaritan in 1997, Father Geof has started the College Fellowship, New Chapel and ALPHA. One of the things that he says that he really appreciates about Good Samaritan is the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the friendships.
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To Contact Father Geof:
Call 610.644.4040 ext 210 or: Geof@good-samaritan.org