Our youth pastor is Bradley Buhro. A graduate of East Noble High School and Olivet Nazarene University, ordained in the Church of the Nazarene, he has been in youth ministry since 1995 and has been serving in Middletown since October 2003. We thought we'd take 50 questions to get to know him a little better, so here it is:
- Where were you born?
- St. Joseph Hospital; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
- In what year?
- 1974. Yes, I am that old.
- What color is your hair?
- Brown
- What color are your eyes?
- Ibid.
- How tall are you?
- 3 and 2/3s cubits
- What size are your feet?
- 8 and 1/2 wide
- Are they ticklish?
- Sometimes
- What's your favorite movie?
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Whats your favorite TV show?
- X-Files
- Who's your favorite actor/actress?
- John Rhys-Davies (In fact, one of my sons' middle name is Rhys.)
- Artist/band?
- Doménicos Theotokópoulos (aka El Greco)
- Color?
- #FF0000
- Sport?
- Hockey (In fact my first three kids are named after Hockey players.)
- Food?
- Green Bean Casserole (Can you believe it has its own wikipedia entry?)
- Season
- Saffron
- School Subject?
- Literature
- Do you have a best friend?
- Yep.
- Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
- I have a wife and five kids. Does that count?
- How many close friends do you have?
- 4.5, but I'm not naming names -- you have to guess if you're included.
- Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi?
- Diet Coke with Lime
- Dogs or cats?
- Depends. As a pet, or as a main course?
- Desparate Housewives or Gray's Anatomy?
- Neither. X-Files I thought we already covered that.
- Where were you when you first heard about the hijackings on 9/11?
- In my car on the way home from an early morning Bible Study in Decatur, IL.
- Whats the furthest from home you've been?
- Granada, Spain (4203.75 miles from Kendallville, IN, my home at the time)
- If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- Greece
- Who was the last person who said hi to you?
- Beau Middleton
- Made you mad?
- One of my kids for disobedience
- Helped you fix something?
- Josh Waid
- Drove you somewhere?
- Josh Waid
- Bought you something?
- The KMBC counselors at Portage
- You called?
- Sam Reedy
- You Messaged?
- Paul Ward
- Sang to you?
- My daughter, Mackenzie
- Read to you?
- Dan John Miller
- Have you ever laughed so much milk came out of your nose?
- Milk, no. Coke Zero, yes.
- Got gum caught in your hair?
- What child hasn't
- Ate dog food?
- Given the fact that I give table scraps to my two dogs all the time, the answer is technically yes.
- Kissed a dog?
- Not that I remember.
- Aced a test?
- Over and over.
- Stayed up all night?
- It's 2:30 am right now, does that count?
- Gone a day without eating?
- Yes. 30 Hour Famine was the last time.
- Gone 2 days without brushing your teeth?
- Yes
- Can you pat your stomach and rub your head in a circle at the same time?
- Yes
- Stand on your hands?
- Only in the swimming pool
- Wiggle your ears?
- Not without using my hands
- Speak another language?
- ˇSí!
- Make a wine glass hum with your fingers?
- No, but I can make a grown man weep with my face.
- Whistle?
- You gotta whistle the X-files theme song every time it's played.
- What's your favorite saying?
- "You're my favorite. My favorite what, I won't say."
- What's the one thing you hope teens will learn from you?
- That the future that God has planned for them is better than any future they can imagine for themselves.