{"id":13498,"date":"2017-06-21T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/aaron-peterson-student-spotlight-bio-story\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:48:32","slug":"aaron-peterson-student-spotlight-bio-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/aaron-peterson-student-spotlight-bio-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Peterson: Student Spotlight Bio Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Aaron<\/a>

Aaron Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

Who is Aaron?
\nAaron is a working priest.\u00a0 Working priests are men and women throughout the world who pastor churches and hold jobs and receive an income outside of the church.\u00a0 This photograph explains that.\u00a0 Taken in Uganda while on a visit to bond with his 18 year old son, train church planters, deepen friendships, catalog and encourage Ugandan Vineyards, and conduct research for his doctoral program in Global Leadership, this picture truly is worth a whole bucket full of words.\u00a0 This picture happened because of who Aaron is, husband, father, pastor, teacher, student, and friend of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Because he believes the biggest miracle in this life is marriage, Aaron is most passionate about his wife Lisa and their 22 years of matrimony.\u00a0 He is also preoccupied with his and Lisa\u2019s four adolescent children whom they are raising in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0 It is from the fountain of marriage and family that Aaron planted and pastors the Hub Vineyard Church, teaches History at the local public high school, heads up the Uganda Partnership for the Vineyard, and is pursuing a doctorate at George Fox Seminary.\u00a0 Aaron enjoys playing in the dirt with his english and antique roses, discovering new things in the local mountains while walking the family Bernese Mountain Dog, DJ-ing partes, and traveling.\u00a0 Aaron is slowly getting in touch with his bird watching side and when the weather is warm, you can most likely find him at the beach.<\/p>\n

Aaron pastors The Hub Vineyard Church which he and some friends planted in 2003.\u00a0 Armed with a desire for authentic, holistic and fully integrated spirituality, Aaron\u2019s vision is to see all those around him become friends with Jesus.\u00a0 Aaron leads the Hub with a strong commitment to emotionally healthy spirituality.\u00a0 Besides preaching, creating new ministries, and connecting with people, Aaron loves to organize and facilitate marriage and spiritual formation retreats and activities.\u00a0 The Hub is part of the Association of Vineyard Churches, USA and Aaron has been part of the Vineyard movement since he was 11 years old.<\/p>\n

As a teacher at Verdugo Hills High School for over 20 years, Aaron is enmeshed in the local community.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because Verdugo is the school he graduated from, or maybe because it\u2019s the school his parents\u2019 graduated from, but either way, Aaron fits the \u201clocal boy\u201d persona perfectly.\u00a0 Besides teaching Government, Economics, U.S. History and World History, Aaron is\u00a0 the Work Experience Education teacher and gets to visit and connect with many of the local businesses around the town.\u00a0 Aaron is also a master teacher and supervises and mentors student-teachers who are earning their teaching credential through local universities.\u00a0 The best thing about teaching teens and adults for him is that moment when something new is discovered.\u00a0 So many people consider education a science that can be commenced via formulas, but Aaron considers education, like pastoring, to be an art form.<\/p>\n

As the leader of the Uganda Partnership, Aaron wants to plant a self-sustaining indigenous network of Vineyard Churches throughout Uganda.\u00a0 He\u2019s been working on this since 2005 and makes annual journeys to Uganda to teach, encourage, and build relationship.\u00a0 He also works nationally and internationally with other Vineyard churches and associations to support church planting in Uganda.\u00a0 There were no Vineyard Churches in Uganda in 2005 and now 10 years later, there are six self-sustaining legitimate churches pastored by Ugandans.<\/p>\n

Aaron is attempting to make sense of all this by learning how to blog at www.workingpriest.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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