I was blessed to be introduced to the Catholic faith by my parents who raised me Catholic and sent me to Catholic school. However, it took me until late in college to develop a relationship with Jesus and our Blessed Mother, a fruit that was definitely produced by invitations from my university’s FOCUS team at the Newman Center.

My senior year of college was simply transformative. However, the idea of surrendering my life to Christ was terrifying at the time. But don’t worry, Jesus and Mary came through big time. One by one, in my last semester of college, I began saying more small “yeses” to God until I felt the call to give a full surrender and start mission with FOCUS – 4 days before graduation and one week before FOCUS new staff training commenced.