I am excited to be serving in my ninth year with FOCUS as a Program Director for the South Area Regional Team.  I help support missionaries on over 50+ campuses as they reach out to college students and bring to them the Good News of Jesus Christ, ultimately preparing them for life-long Catholic mission.  After serving on campus for 7 years, I feel honored to use my experience to help the efforts of evangelization on a bigger scale.  In addition, my husband Andrew Green serves with FOCUS as a full-time missionary at Auburn University.  Our family feels grateful to be supporting FOCUS both on a campus and national level.   Please pray for us!

As I continue to grow deeper in my relationship with Jesus Christ, I become more and more amazed by just how ridiculously in love God the Father is with me and the rest of humanity!  He is relentlessly pursuing our hearts, so that we may know Him and share in His blessed life…  Throughout the entirety of my life, God has never stopped pursuing me.  However, I did not allow myself to be pursued back by God until the summer of my senior year of high school when both my Uncle Kevin and little sister Anne Marie became ill with cancer.  I had grown up Catholic, but I had many misunderstandings about the faith.  After hearing the news of my sister’s illness, it was one of the first times I truly poured my heart out to God in prayer.  I felt totally helpless and afraid and I needed Him like never before.  I found myself praying more frequently which turned daily, and I fell in love with the Holy Mass.  I truly felt at “home.”  As I entered into college at Missouri State University, God continued to pursue me through the FOCUS missionaries and student leaders on my campus.  Their joy, their love for God and His Church, and their boldness in sharing the faith with others drew me more deeply into not just being pursued by God but pursuing God back!  The love inside of me became so overwhelming that I had to share His goodness with the people in my life.  Thus, I started my first ever Bible study my sophomore year of college and began intentionally pouring into my peers sharing with them how God was working in my life.  By my senior year of college, I was sold out for Jesus Christ, His Church, and His Great Commission.  Now, one of my greatest desires is be a saint and to raise up more future saints alongside me.  In the words of Pope Saint John Paul II, “Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”  Truly, there is nothing better or more important than living a life with Jesus Christ.