I serve at New York University (NYU) with my lovely teammates depicted above. I’m excited to work with the influential, driven, and excellent students of NYU in the concrete jungle of New York City, so that the purpose and end of their lives may be Love Itself.

Before I knew God I was restless. I always wanted to be something great and to participate in something amazing. I knew deep down in my baptized soul that there was supposed to be meaning in life, but it seemed just barely to escape me. For too long instead of living well I was recklessly disobedient to the truth that I did know, and willfully ignorant of the rest. I was deeply and aggressively atheistic, resentful, and unloving. God was patient with me. During COVID my desire for higher spiritual truth became more acute, and I tried to make sense of the big questions of life.

Under the illusion that money would satisfy me, I dropped out of college, successfully invested in the nascent field of financial technology, and even believed that God was with me as I made progress in living a relatively virtuous life. But eventually I indulged in old habits and fell back into old ways. I learned that I needed nothing less than a heart transplant. After many earnest but failed attempts to find Truth I was disillusioned, heartbroken and at the end of my ropes, so I ordered a Bible on Amazon. By His teachings, example, and most of all His selfless death on a cross, Christ planted seeds in my heart that have continued to grow to this day. Jesus became my refuge in difficulties. He gave me the freedom and clarity that helped me to conquer confusion and sin. And while I was by no means perfect I knew that sharing Him with others was the most important thing that I could do with my life.

I developed and sharpened many tools to share God with others with the Protestant ministry, Cru, and in my sophomore year of college at UMass Amherst I came to see His fullness in the Catholic Church.

After the initial shock I knew I needed to adapt or otherwise discard my new dreams of being a Protestant Pastor, Evangelist, and Theologian. I am now able to recognize that God had greater plans in store. After two years of pursuing the Lord in His Church by devotion to prayer and the sacraments, living in intentional Catholic community, leading others, and being led, I decided to continue this all-important work by being a missionary with FOCUS in the heart of modern civilization at New York University (NYU).

It is my job is to bring to all the good news that can save them so they may know God as their Father, their neighbor as their brother, and finally find the rest and transformation that they crave in the relationship for which they were made.

This placement is an immense honor and privilege. It comes with an urgent opportunity and consequent responsibility to share Truth that can save with countless souls who are lost and without hope, in most need of God’s mercy; but I can not do it alone. Your prayer and/or financial contribution to my mission is an integral aspect of Jesus’ mission to save the world through our team.