My name is Dan Hinz.

I am married to a wonderful and beautiful woman, Natalie.

Currently, I am planting Grassroots Church, a missional community seeking to bring the love of Jesus to the de-churched.  I am also recently finished my first book, Why the Church Needs More Bartenders.

In my spare time, I am finishing up my Masters Degree in the Missional Church at Northern Baptist Seminary under David Fitch.

Longer Intro:

I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church.  But God really began flipping my world upside down when I went away to Hope College in Holland, MI.  My years at Hope are invaluable to me and were incredibly formational.   I divided my time pretty equally between chapel and fraternity basements.

After my four years at Hope, I hopped in a van with a buddy of mine and spent the summer travelling the country.  After that adventure, I flew to Australia to work as a missionary for a while.  When I returned to the states that next year, I enrolled at Western Theological Seminary.  I dropped out after my first year, mostly due to the fact that I met a certain young lady.  After a year of bartending and dating Natalie, I re-enrolled at Northern Seminary.  At Northern, I hang out with David Fitch and am finishing myMasters degree in the Missional Church.

I passionately believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is for all those people who never would step foot in a church.  And I am avid about helping the church embrace its missional calling.

Besides all that, I am addicted to watersports.  I survive the midwest winters by playing a little ping pong and the occassional ski trip.  My worldly and unrealistic dream to have a lake house in Lake Geneva and ski every morning.