Life & Work with Enosh Fee

Today we’d like to introduce you to Enosh Fee. 

Hi Enosh, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
I was born in Las Vegas Nevada on September 24, 1976. I am married to a wonderful woman, Tiffanie Fee, and have three amazing sons, Landen (18), and two stepsons that I consider mine, Isaac (20) and Logan (17). I have three dogs, Wookiee, Harley Quinn, and Marty McFly. We are a nerdy family that enjoys DC Comics, Marvel, Star Wars, and pop culture. As a family, we collect toys and pop culture memorabilia. We go to comic cons and even have a successful YouTube channel called Poindexter Lounge with almost 12,000 subscribers! We’ve had opportunity to interview many celebrities, and it is a fun existence!!! 

My story is deeply rooted in my grandmother’s story. My grandmother worked in the entertainment industry in Las Vegas managing musical groups as well as performing herself. She had quite a lavish lifestyle until, as she puts it, had an experience with God that changed her life. She left everything for a life of serving others. 

I ended being raised by my grandmother Betty Rogers along with my two sisters. My mother had problems with drugs and alcohol as well as some mental issues, and my grandmother had lovingly taken us in and provided for us. We didn’t have a lot growing up, but we always had love. It was just her and the three of us. 

My grandmother had come back to Flint Michigan where she grew up and has started to church on the east side of Flint called Echoes of Faith. I grew up in this church working in ministry and honing my skills as a musician and singer. My grandmother found me at the age of 16 playing guitar to a band I loved called Petra. They were a multi–Grammy Award-winning group that had sold millions of albums and toured the world! She asked me who the lead singer was. I told her that his name was John Schlitt. She then told me that God was telling her that I was going to play with him one day. I smiled as a 16-year-old who wasn’t very good at guitar and thanked her. I thought grandma was just being supportive. She believed I could do anything! 

In 1994 I helped start a Christian rock band called Antioch. We traveled all around the U.S. and Canada performing and speaking to youth groups and at events while trying to have a positive influence on the young people we played to. This ended up leading to me meeting one of my musical heroes, yes, John Schlitt, lead singer of the band Petra. He had seen my band and really enjoyed what we were doing. I received a call asking if I would be interested in assembling and leading a band to back him up on a summer tour! Of course, I said yes, and my grandmother ended up being on the front row of the first show I played with John. Grandma was right! It wouldn’t be the only time… 

The next few years were a whirlwind of learning for me. I had decided after being on the road that it wasn’t the lifestyle I really wanted. I still played in regional bands, but my focus was ministry and helping others. I was offered a position as Director of Worship arts for a good size congregation called Living Hope of the Bay in Chesterfield, Michigan. I commuted an hour and a half there for 6 years! It was a church plant that met in a school. I learned how to put together a team and build a church from the start. 

After 6 years, I then moved about 30 minutes closer to home at a church called Orchard Ridge. I was the Worship Arts Pastor there for 5 years. This was a church a little further down the road where Living Hope had been in its history. Here I learned the dos and don’ts. How to lead a congregation of around 200-300 people. It was an amazing experience. 

Through this time at Orchard Ridge and our connections in the Church of the Nazarene, I was then offered the Worship Pastor position at Flint Central, Church of the Nazarene. This church was an established 100-year-old ministry with close to 2000 members and best of all was only 10 minutes from my house! Here I learned so much about working in an established ministry. I thought I was set, and this was the endgame of all of my years of working ministry. 

I had also been a part of many civic groups, having been a president of the Downtown Flint, Optimist Club, worked alongside the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint, was president of the West Flint Business Association, a member of the Eastside Business Association, a member of the Flint and Genesee Regional Chambers of Commerce, as well as volunteering for many other organizations. My heart has always been to reach and help hurting people in the Flint area. Flint, MI has been overcome by many hardships over the years. From economic downturn and lack of jobs to most recently the water crisis. But the people of Flint are tough, and these are my people!!! 

Through everything I had accomplished in my life and every position (Even having a successful career with FedEx Office in corporate sales), my grandmother repeatedly kept telling me that I was going to one day come back and be the Pastor of the church she had started in 1984 and that I grew up in. That small little church on the eastside of Flint. Honestly, I had no desire to do this; I had worked very hard and was now finally in a place (Flint Central) that was everything that I thought I wanted. But her words kept ringing in my mind about taking her church. 

In early 2021 I had begun discussing taking a position as a lead pastor for one of our Nazarene churches. I stepped out of the position I was currently in to be considered. Due to some politics, I ended up on a waiting list. So, I helped some various other churches with their outreaches for most of 2021. That ended in October. I then began researching starting a church with a team of people I had assembled, but the Church of the Nazarene was not interested in planting a new church in ou area at the time. 

This left me in a very defeated place. For the first time I could remember, I wasn’t serving a community of faith. Then the worst thing possible happened; my grandmother passed away in early November. I was devastated! I had no church to serve in, and now the person who was my rock in life was gone. It was then that the revelation of her words to me about taking her church came rushing through my mind once more! “One day you’re going to lead this church, Enosh.” We now had a building and the 5 people she still had attending when she had passed at the age of 80 years old. 

Without hesitation we jumped in the deep end!!! I took over the church as pastor in December of 2021. Shortly after we began to make changes to bring the building and the atmosphere into the 21st century, lol. People began to come. We had a mission to make a place for people who had either been hurt by the church in the past. Told they weren’t good enough. You don’t look the part because you have tattoos, or an unruly beard, or a dirty mouth, and you need to fix all of that before being a part of us or were not interested in church and what faith could bring to their lives and their families. 

I believe that God loves all of us. We can’t get clean enough to come to God, He’s the one who works on us, and many times the church or church people put emphasis on things that God doesn’t care about. God does not care about what you wear, or how you look, or if you’re rough around the edges. He just wants a relationship with you. So those are the values where with we relaunched Echoes of Faith Family Church. We have taken up the mantle for the work my grandmother and others have done here and are taking it to the next level. 

We are dedicated to helping the inner city of Flint Michigan, through clothing feeding, and encouraging people that they matter. They matter to us, and they matter to God. We have built the church up to about 40 members attending in the building on a Sunday, but the remarkable part has been the outreach that we do online. Because of my Poindexter Lounge channel, that is not a church channel, but people know what I do, we average between 1200 to 1500 people watching our services every week!!!

This is something that I never thought that I would do. Leave a church at 2000 for a church of five. But it is my calling. And just as my grandmother had told me many other things they came to pass; this was the most important. In addition to what I do at the church, I work as a para pro with the special ed department at Carman Ainsworth middle school. My life is dedicated to helping others, and I will continue to follow in the footsteps of my grandmother who told me it would happen even when I thought it was the furthest from what I wanted. I summarize it up in the words of the Rolling Stones, you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need. 

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
We’ve had trials trying to refurbish our over 100-year-old building. We build a wheelchair ramp on the front of the building because we were not wheelchair accessible. But our bathrooms are in the basement. So, we are now trying to build a first-floor restroom so that we can assist those with disabilities. We want to be good neighbors to those who attend. We also have a 30-year-old roof that needs to be replaced. We are currently trying to raise $4000 to cover the cost of materials, but a company has stepped up to dedicate the labor. We don’t have all the resources that I had at the larger churches that I worked at, so we have to improvise. 

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My life is summed up in all of those professional offerings. I worked for 14 years for Kinko’s, which was later bought by FedEx. I worked my way up from running copiers on third shift to being shift supervisor, then going into inside sales, and then finally outside corporate sales. I lead by sales teams in Michigan too many awards, and I’ve actually received awards from former CEOs of the company on stages at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. During this time, I was very involved in the business community of our area. 

I have also worked as a professional musician and artist performing all across the United States and Canada. I have recorded six albums and let it band for a Grammy award winner. 

I also run Poindexter Lounge YouTube channel and podcast. So, we create content that way. 

Currently, I work as a para pro for special ed at Carman Ainsworth middle school. 

I also create content and run the YouTube and TikTok accounts for a dog treat company called Bully Sticks Direct. So, I get to make fun videos playing with my dogs! 

Before we let you go, we’ve got to ask if you have any advice for those who are just starting out.
Always remember when starting out that this is not your final destination. All the different places that I worked or served in ministry, I realize now they were teaching me lessons to get me to the place I needed to be. I needed those lessons to know what to do when placed in my current position. There were many times where I thought about the things that I didn’t have but should’ve been focused on what I did have and those around me. Many times, I would just take a moment to assess my surroundings and just be present in that moment. To just look around me at what I was doing and appreciate it for while I was there doing it. Things change, jobs change, and we change. But enjoy the journey. 

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @poindexterlounge
• Facebook: @echoesoffaithfamilychurch
• Twitter: @poindxterlounge
• Youtube: @poindexterlounge and @echoesoffaithfamilychurch