​WOODWORKING

          Cole Jester has been woodworking for three years starting at the age of 16. Though Jesters passion for woodworking is obvious, his love for the Lord is hard to ignore.  

          Jester does not see his woodworking turning into a career, rather, he would love for a career to fund his projects. With a desire to go into ministry Jester voiced that he would also be willing to use his woodworking for ministry. "You can go into a church and there is woodworking everywhere, if I wanted to start a church and didn't have a lot of income I could always make my own furniture if I needed to," Jester said. Woodworking has even "been an opening point in ways to talk to people about God and how He has a heart for us in what He's created."

          Having gone from a safe, to coffee tables, Jester has spoken of an interest in taking on bigger projects. This summer he is looking forward to bulding a Canoe. The most important tool for Jester when working is "the tablesaw. You can make cross cuts or rip boards." 

          Even though this may be the "most multifunntional tool," as Jester said, his favorite is the planer. His planer was made in 1943, around World War II; some of the best tools for woodworking were created during that time. 

         Though his woodworking doesn't run his life, Jester feels "it's really nice if you're just not doing anything and you have some extra time to be able to go out to your garage and do something thats fun... it's actually productive and at the end of the day, you walk away with something that has value."

          What Jester loves about woodworking is "the fact that God made us in his image and the fact that he loves to create. It's so cool that in the same way, though we can't create like He can, we love to kind of mimmick that and act as a shadow. Everybody loves to create something, we love to be productive. I think it's cool that we can, in a way, advance creation by taking something the Lord has given us and making something beautiful out of it."