Boon Island Blogger

Yeah, this is me.

My name is Chris Vitarelli. I’ve been blogging for a couple of years. My audience in small. Mainly people in my church and a few friends scattered around the country. That’s okay with me. Perhaps one day my audience will grow but for now I’m happy to record my thoughts for me and the other ten people who care to read them.  I am a pastor, an author, a singer, an actor, a musician, a father, a husband, a carpenter, a Carpenter follower, a student and a sometimes theologian. I love baseball, history, studies of great men; I love preaching, teaching, reading and talking; I love playing – board games, video games, card games, run-around-and-get-sweaty games. I love movies that inspire. I love playing with my kids and spending time with my wife. I love my church. I love my God. I am 33 years old, reside in Busti, NY, have 3 children and one coming. I do my own handyman work around the house and cut the grass with a pushmower. I love using my weedwhacker/trimmer. My goals include getting a book published, pastoring for the rest of my life and being the best possible husband. Not necessarily in that order. So . . . that’s the blogger. What is Boon Island?

Boon Island sits off the coast of Maine a mere 6 miles. Back in the 1700’s a ship crashed on this barren, rocky outpost stranding the entire crew. They lived there over a month, subsisting on seaweed, whatever they could pull from the water and each other. It’s an amazing story of survival. Boon Island now is home to a lighthouse, preventing ships from crashing on its barely visible humpback shape.I’d like to think that in some way this blog is like that island. (Not that I want people to crash into me and die) but that they notice the lighthouse built on it. I want to lead people to safety, to haven, to home. There are many voices calling to people directing them to many things. I want to be a voice that is at times crazy, funny, off-the-wall but always pointing toward the Savior, Jesus Christ. Welcome to Boon Island . . .