Wave coach Dann’s 16-year-old daughter L.J. Pantoja says it’s more comfortable for her. "It’s not traditional and I don’t get bored as easily– it makes it more exciting in a Bubble Tea House!" She used to be bored at church service and disliked attending. L.J.’s boredom with church was what alarmed Dann enough to quit his five-year-stint as the Director of Global Ministries for the Baptist General Conference of Canada. His children confronted him one day and said, "You’re busy doing church planting around the world, and we want you to know that now that we’re teenagers, we don’t want to go to Sunday school anymore. And we don’t know if we want to go to church anymore." LeLe, Dann’s eldest daughter didn’t want to attend Sunday school either and she volunteered to help out in the nursery so she could skip service.

L.J. and her friend Walter

That was a major shock to Dann, who called that time in his life, "The beginning of the end." He gave up his career and took two years to exit out of his post. That’s when he started to ask about postmodernism and listened to Lauryn Hill and Alanis Morissette with his children. "They are the most honest generation!" Dann says. "Too honest," John chimes in. LeLe says that her dad wanted to make the service something they could enjoy. "I think he’s done a good job. I like it," LeLe said.

But it was through this search, Dann says, he learned how to minister to the younger generation, and got to know John, Jeff and Wayne in the process.