Us in the car before our wedding reception

This website is about Jesus.  We care little about the fame of our name but want to use our lives and our ideas to lift up the fame of Jesus Christ’s name.

Paul and Kaelin are Urban Missionaries and Church Planting Candidates in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), Minnesota.  We are with the North Central District of the Evangelical Free Church of America under the leadership of Tom Mouw.  Paul is also a church-planter-in-training at Hope Community Church (our home church) in downtown Minneapolis.  Paul recently finished three years of ministry training through the Leadership Development Institute at Hope Community Church.  Paul and Kaelin did Trek 1 – a one year internship – together in 2007-2008.  With the coming of our first child, Luke David Ireland, Kaelin now concentrates on our primary disciples (our children) and writes.

Right now we live in downtown Minneapolis by Elliot Park and North Central University.  We love it here. We can walk pretty much anywhere!    We also enjoy the diversity and interesting happenings that come with living in a downtown urban environment.

We both value children, healthy families, loving marriages, serving others, good food, participating in our community, sharing life with others, lifelong learning, eating well, exercise, and having fun.  And as you can probably tell, we both love Jesus.

Kaelin Ireland (formerly Kaelin Cook) is originally from Minneapolis.  Paul is from Portland, OR.  Paul’s family is still there.  Kaelin has two younger brothers – both teenagers – that are going to be really cool dudes and Paul has a brother 4 years younger than him that he misses a lot.  We love our families dearly!

We met in Chicago (11/05), dated while living in Los Angeles (4/06-6/07), got married in Minneapolis (at Hope… long story), moved to Denver (8/07), then moved to Minneapolis to do LDI (9/07).  The story is confusing, so try to stick with me here.

Kaelin has a Communications degree from University of Wisconsin Madison.  Paul attended Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA and received a degree in Economics and Psychology with Leadership Sequence.

We love each other and love Jesus.  We want to make the world a better place by helping others fall in love with Jesus.