From the Word

Kit made his decision to serve the Lord in ministry as early as tenth grade, when it was his desire to pursue missionary aviation. A friend suggested Moody Bible Institute, with its reputation for an excellent aviation program, though Kit was equally impressed by the prospect of living in Chicago near all of that great pizza (“a vital component to the college selection process,” he says).

Food choices aside, Kit happily entered Moody as an Applied Linguistics major, enjoying his studies and eager to serve God in missions work.  He never imagined that he would graduate as a music major. “There were two reasons I avoided becoming a music major,” he recalls. “First, I was blessed with a brain that I could put to use on things I thought were hard, like linguistics. Second, I was pursuing the Lord’s work in missions. I thought, no one who God can use to save souls on the mission field would ever be called to sing for people instead.”

But God would show Kit how wrong he was. Through the example of his violin-major roommate, who studied and worked and practiced “as unto the Lord,” Kit came to respect the discipline that music requires. In addition, God began to remind Kit of the vital role that music had played in his own conversion. “The crux of my testimony, when I first remember committing my life to the Lord, was during the invitation given at a Christian rock concert,” he says. “And here I was, seven years later, saying that what God does through music doesn’t matter as much as what He does through missions. Shame on me!”

To Life

Kit now serves as the Music and Christian Education Director at Christian Reformed Church in Western Springs, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.  In addition, he has spent four summers on the music staff of a Christian family retreat center in New York, has done studio work for a Christian music company and has sung for three years with the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He credits these opportunities to his Moody education. “The teachers and fellow students who poured into me during my time at Moody trained me to work with excellence,” he says. “They spurred me on to live a life ‘worthy of the calling to which [I] have been called.’” 

The real point to his story, Kit believes, is to always rest in Christ, though he insists that the story is far from over. “I’m in music ministry and youth ministry right now,” he says, “and we’ll see where else the Lord leads before I’m through.”