{"id":1311433,"date":"2019-06-14T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/redemption-for-carbondale-pastor-2\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T02:20:00","slug":"redemption-for-carbondale-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/redemption-for-carbondale-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Redemption for Carbondale pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Self inside The Orchard Church located in Carbondale.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

When the new pastor of The Orchard was kicked out of a Texas Bible college, it felt like his career in ministry was over.<\/p>\n

Daniel Self remembers the campus dean calling him into an office with a file of his alleged wrongdoings. \u201cWe\u2019re going to let you not reapply, and this will go away,\u201d Self remembers the dean telling him.<\/p>\n

Self described the mischievous activities as pranks, but would not elaborate further, except to say, \u201cme and organized religion don\u2019t always get along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Self, 43, grew up in Redstone, where his father, Doug Self, founded a church in 1976, and felt a calling to the ministry at an early age. Doug founded a second church in Carbondale in 1990, which eventually became The Orchard.<\/p>\n

After leaving Bible college, Self thought his career in ministry was over. But he got an internship with rapidly growing church in Georgia, got married, and his career as a pastor appeared to be back on track.<\/p>\n

His 13 years in Georgia were times of \u201ccrazy success, crazy failure,\u201d Self said.<\/p>\n

The failure came out of his personal life. His wife was \u201cchronically unfaithful,\u201d Self said, and eventually, the marriage reached a breaking point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to choose between my career, my marriage and my heart,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I let the career go first to try to save the marriage. Finally, that wasn\u2019t viable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Self is now remarkably open about his past, more than some pastors may be comfortable with, because he hopes it will resonate with the people he meets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really believe it would be a disservice to God and this whole thing if I just told people what was good in my life,\u201d Self said.<\/p>\n

After the marriage ended, he taught jujitsu in Georgia for a time, and then returned to the Roaring Fork Valley around 2008.<\/p>\n

He felt he was done with ministry as a job, and worked for a local bank. He made it back into ministry nearly 10 years ago by working with his father\u2019s church under the supervision of Charley Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a time of healing for his heart,\u201d Doug said of his son\u2019s return to ministry. \u201cEspecially meeting his wife, Amy. It was healing for both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel met Amy, who had lost her own husband to a skiing accident, through friends at the church.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fairy tale had kind of ended for both of us,\u201d Daniel said. They are now married and live in the Ironbridge neighborhood (thanks to the housing lottery) with their son Elijah, 6 and daughter Selah, 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cRedemption is a word I use a lot in my life, to see how God has redeemed my wife and I, in our story and all that we lost,\u201d Daniel said.\u201cI always thought I would come back here and pastor. I just thought it would be under different conditions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Daniel started as lead pastor at The Orchard June 1, and his father sees the experience as an indelible part of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started off very skilled, but he\u2019s added a depth and a richness to his speaking that we\u2019re very proud of, and is very beneficial for the church and everybody there,\u201d Doug said.<\/p>\n

Doug believes The Orchard could double or triple in size under Daniel\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

Daniel wants to be a source of healing for people in the community, not just the ones who already go to church.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus was known as somebody who hung out with the drunkards and the sinners, and he got the reputation for being those things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favorite places to go and be a pastor is White House Pizza bar. I have a lot of friends in town that I get to be real with, they accept me, I accept them without any pretense. God may come up, he may not. But I\u2019m as much a pastor there as I am on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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