User:Tyhurst

Tyler Hurst: Tyler was born in Santa Cruz, California in January of 1988. Tyler’s story really begins during his sophomore year in high school. At the age of sixteen Tyler began to hang out with four friends that would shape him. Kerry Carpenter, Nate Spears, Brad Duncan and Mike Gustafson were Tyler’s main influences. He became known for his pranks (specifically “TPing” houses). During that summer he traveled to Poznan, Poland on a mission trip. It was the first over seas (high school) mission trip in the history of Santa Cruz Bible Church.

This trip inspired Tyler to join a small youth movement. The movement toward an equally charismatic and doctrine church. The joining of the Biblical stability and knowledge of doctrine churches and the strong faith of charismatic churches. Joining this movement encouraged him to join another mission trip in his junior summer ( to Poland and Lithuania) and Senior summer (to the Czech Republic).

After reading multiple books by Christian authors, Tyler came to agree with author John Elderidge (“Wild at Heart”) that Christians have been tamed. This realization that Churches across the nation have been taught to be nice and clean and quiet and polite, made Tyler want to work fight against that stereotype. In doing so Tyler along with Kerry, Nate, Mike and (his older brother) Catch came up with a creation of the Gauntlet.

The Gauntlet is a very secretive game, that has only been played a couple of times, in one location (Tyler’s home town Scotts Valley, California). Not much is known about the Gauntlet