I am excited to be serving in my eighth year with FOCUS as a new Program Director for the South Area Regional Team.  I help support missionaries on over 50+ campuses as they reach out to college students bringing to them the Good News of Jesus Christ and 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, I will be getting married in December to another FOCUS missionary named Andrew Green, who will be serving at Auburn University.  I feel 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.

When I answered the call to join FOCUS, I made the decision to rely on the spiritual and financial support of mission partners to make this mission possible.  I have been blessed with amazing people who have journeyed with me as I have served with FOCUS since 2017.  If you are interested in partnering with me, I would love to schedule a meeting with you.  It would be an honor and a joy to share in this mission with you.