B.J. Mumford

BJ MumfordResponsibilities
As Campus Director, I an responsible for making the weekend service run, I work with a lot of the ministry teams, and I generally do whatever I can to make the Tower Grove Campus run smoothly.

Family
My beautiful wife is named Kelly, and we have a little girl, Grace. They're both really wonderful, and you should introduce yourself to them some time.

What the Journey Has Meant To You
A nurturing, maturing, challenging, embracing place to be, to work, to learn, and to give.

Quote or Advice
"It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why." - Nigel Tufnel

What You Enjoy
Old big books, leather chairs, Feraro's pizza, Central American coffee, Wikipedia, cool weather, going to the park with my family, laughing, museums, Cardinals baseball, the NBA playoffs, new car smell.

Where You Grew Up and What You Did As a Kid
I grew up in Columbia, Missouri, as the second of two boys. I was very active as a child.

Favorite Reads or Films
Films: O Brother Where Art Thou, The Incredibles, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rear Window.
Books: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss.

Hope for The Journey
The same as Josh Dix's hope for The Journey: That we would ask "What is God's hope for The Journey?"

Yada, Yada, Yada
So, this one time, there I was sitting in class, I think it must've been 8th grade. And we were sitting there, wondering where our teacher was. I guess it was American History Class, because I remember the thing we were studying was definitely American. It was the so-called ‘flapper' era, the one right before the great depression. Like, the one that The Great Gatsby is written about. I've never read The Great Gatsby, so I'm just guessing on that, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Anyway, the teacher was a little flaky, sort of a 45 year old single lady who seemed to think she was still 22. I base that assertion on the clothes she wore, and the way she talked, and everything else. So, we're sitting there, and I remember I was trying to start a conversation with Erica, the cute girl who sat in the next desk over. And then, all of a sudden, the teacher walked in, wearing this flapper outfit, with the miniskirt, and the little headband thing with the sequins and the beads hanging off of it. And I've never really recovered from that.