As I go into my fourth year as a FOCUS missionary, I’m excited to be returning to Northern Arizona University, but this time as the Team Director! I’m so excited to get back on campus to not only encounter students and help them discover and grow their relationship with God, but also to help form my new team and equip them to be the best missionaries they can be!

From the very beginning of college, I became involved with the Catholic Campus Center at Fort Hays State University and grew in my faith and a life of prayer more and more every year. Influenced by role models of those around me and the activities I was involved in, I continued growing in my faith to the point that I wanted to give back and help others come to know what I had found. Through teaching confirmation classes and serving as a camp counselor at a Catholic summer camp (shoutout Camp Wojtyla!!), I was able to fulfill this desire and become even more formed in the process, but I realized I still had a desire to do this even when college ended.

Fall semester of my senior year of college, I did a national student exchange program at Northern Arizona University. It was during that time that I saw the witness of the team of FOCUS missionaries and realized that FOCUS is one of the best opportunities for me to serve the church at this point in my life. Through continued prayer and discernment, I realized that all the previous opportunities God had put in front of me and that I said yes to were actually preparing me for this next big leap.

After three years as a missionary, I felt God calling me to take another big leap, but this time to become the Team Director here. I’m excited to work with and lead my team to so we can better know Christ Jesus, fulfill His great commission, and teach students to do the same!

I realize I was blessed to continually be building my faith while in college, but I know that sadly this isn’t the story for other students. Many college students either fall away from their faith while in college or never had one to begin with, so my goal is to change the statistic and make the outlier the norm- that students GROW in their faith while in college!

That’s why I’m inviting people like you that share this vision of reaching college students into this mission with me! Just as great missionaries throughout history like St. Francis Xavier needed a team back home to make his endeavors possible, the work I do wouldn’t be possible without all those supporting and praying for me and the mission behind the scenes. If you would like to learn more about the impact I’m making and how you can also play a part in this work, please email or call me and I’d love to find a time to talk!