Rev. Bryon "Hawk" Holman

Born and raised in Chicago, Il. The son of two current Baptist missionaries.

The founder and minister of this church. Like most ministers he has alot to say but you find it interesting if you read it all. His purpose is to let you know the man before you join the church.

 

 

Well my gosh,

They want to explain myself so that people will better understand me, my beliefs and the purpose behind my church. Yet they provide with one page to tell all of who I am and what I'm about.   

I guess I'll start at the beginning, my childhood like most of my time period it sucked. Now don't get me wrong it was not the worst of the worst you would naturally think of when someone says they grew up in Chicago but because of my active imagination and a desire to be liked, lets just say I got into alot of trouble. Of course most of that was centered on school and girls, neither which, to this day, I fully understand yet.

But my school days did promote one thing my mind. I belief that there was more out there then what I was seeing hearing or knew. Being raised southern Baptist I had an understanding of God and in my youth I believed, I had understanding with him as well. (Though He did not seem to listen as much during tests or before punishments). Now I knew he was there or at least I hoped that there was more to this life then just what I was being showed, because there was way to many different beings out there for them all to be right.     

Well after years of bouncing around the world doing all sorts of odd jobs and careers including Youth Minster in a modern Baptist church, I found myself at ends with religion, the Church and myself. 

I could not find my way or my purpose. I could not find that there was a whole to the world. I knew that something was wrong but I could not find it nor could I fix it. So I continued my path of wandering, lying waste, (no not on purpose), to all those in my path.

Well somewhere in the middle of my first and second marriage and child. I decided to pin myself and my life to a phase or two. That would at least give me a goal to drive for. Something to act with and upon. 

I started with Just do it; but that ended me with my second child and no closer to my answers or peace that I was seeking. (Though the child does bring more joy then any one person should be allowed to have).  

So my search continued, and being a person of mixed roots I had spend years following one path and I decided to look and see what's on the other side of the road. 
Now I would like to sit here and say that the great ancestors and spirits from many moons before me, came to me in a moment and produced a vision that was so grand that I knew right off the meaning of life and all things holy. But that was not the case. If fact I'd be willing to bet, that when I came to the realization that my life was leading towards shamanism, the great shamans of old where sitting on a mountain somewhere thinking, " after all these years now he wants to listen."

What I can tell you is that I'm here now and that the guiding light in my life is not a entity that I can not see but a belief in the Phase, "All life is connected!"