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Shawn Johnson has always been a connector. Johnson is owner of Commercial Marine Pro, which specializes in sourc-ing and selling marine equipment, from engines, gearboxes and generators to barges, towboats, tugs, shipyard equipment and more. He founded the company with his wife in 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Johnson's work connecting people goes back long before that. Originally from Dallas, Johnson moved to Lafayette, La., when he was 17 years old. Soon thereafter, he met Tonya, whom he married in 1997. In the years that followed, Johnson got involved in pastoral ministry and eventually began laying the groundwork for a new church in the New Orleans area. "At the one-year anniversary, we'd grown to about 110 people," Johnson said. "Then, Katrina hit." In the months that followed, Johnson and his team stepped up to serve their community by helping clean out and rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated much of southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi in August 2005. |