Growing up I was surrounded by a family who loved me and cared for me. Home was always changing as we moved a lot growing up but one thing my mom made important was finding a church and getting my brother and I plugged in. So through my early years in life I had the typical church boy experience of Sunday school, VBS, and summer camp. My faith became my own and something I really invested in when I was in college. Finding Christ Chapel helped me find a community of believers when I transferred schools to come out here. I fell in love with the community, the people, and the overall humility before the cross the church practiced.

My first day in the Aardvark, the old college location, I was welcomed with warm arms and smiling faces. This was an amazing experience before as I had never been treated like that as the new comer in all my moves. This made Aardvark special and felt like my home outside of home. Originally being from California, the cultures are very different so being able to get plugged in so quick made the transition of life change a lot easier.

Being mentored and discipled by amazing people, the call to ministry began to grow increasingly louder. God kept growing greater than I had originally pictured his character to be. Daily I was learning new sides of him and seeing him in a new light. As a Young Adult Resident, I am receiving both the ministerial hands on part as well as the knowledge about God’s character. Growing in those areas is something I am enjoying and look forward to keep developing in.

Although I am a California boy, I am a rodeo champion. When I was younger, I won the Santa Barbara Rodeo mutton-busting competition and got a belt buckle to prove it! I started my undergrad playing baseball at Cal Baptist University and transferred out to Texas Wesleyan University here in Fort Worth to finish my baseball career and graduate with a degree in Liberal Studies.

I was raised to follow God since the very beginning of my life. Some of my earliest memories are from the Sunday services at our church, and my parents have always lovingly encouraged my brother and I to follow and look to God in all we do. I accepted Christ at a very young age and lived according to what I knew about the Christian life throughout my developing years. However, I was raised in San Antonio, TX which I would describe to be a very spiritually dry place. Even though I was a believer and loved God, I was not growing or being developed in my faith and I lacked depth of knowledge when it came to the gospel and why I believed it.

It wasn’t until my freshman year at Texas A&M University (A-WHOOP), when I got plugged into a church and true Christian community, that I began to understand what it fully meant to passionately pursue the Lord and surrender my life to him. I began to understand my immense need for the gospel and throughout that first year I was thoroughly challenged in answering why I believed what I chose to believe and what exactly it meant. The Lord showed up in radical ways that year and provided many incredible people to come alongside me in my journey.

My life has not looked the same since then and I have continued to pursue the Lord and learn what it means to allow the gospel to permeate into all aspects of my life. I am beyond excited to continue to be refined and challenged relationally, spiritually and knowledgeably as a resident, as well as learn how to invest well in the lives of others and serve in the church in a God honoring way.

I love doing anything active and am always down to go for a walk, go climbing or throw the frisbee at the park. I long to live somewhere where hiking is an everyday activity and the outdoors are cherished and incorporated into daily life. I find deep conversations to be life giving and have a mildly unhealthy obsession with smoothies and fresh juice. I have cut my own hair since the 7th grade, wildflower season is my favorite season, and I would travel the world in a heartbeat. I am a graduate of Texas A&M Class of 2020 and I am honored to be apart of this years class of residents and look forward to all this year will bring.

Though I grew up at Christ Chapel in elementary, middle, and high school, I only made Christ a part of my life. Despite the godly influences I had in my life, I never fully grasped what it meant to follow Christ because I never gave Him a second thought. I only desired the cultural aspects of Christianity. Just the fact that people knew I was a Christian was good enough for me.

Because of this, when I was tested in many areas of my life in my senior year of high school, I gave up on what faith I thought I had. I hated God because He wasn’t giving me a good life, and so I decided to spite Him in all that I did and live for myself. This trend of selfishness and hatred towards God continued through my junior year at Texas A&M University, until God placed people and circumstances in my life to bring me back into relationship with Him.

Since then, God has transformed my life in unbelievable ways, ways that I am not capable on my own. Not only has He gifted me with the incredible relationship with Jesus Christ, but God has also given me the privilege and honor to serve Him as a missionary to the Japanese people, the second largest people group who are not Christian. Also, until departure, I have the amazing opportunity to serve Christ Chapel as a Young Adult Resident!

In my free time, I like to run, read, and do almost anything outdoors. I am excited for the future God has prepared for me, and cannot wait to serve the body of believers here at Christ Chapel!

I am blessed to have been raised in an environment where Christ was at the center of all our relationships and conversations. It is because of the Gospel education and faithful prayer I received from an early age that I came to understand my need for Christ and received the Holy Spirit when I was quite young. Due to my parents’ faithfulness to the Lord, all my early formation was built on the foundation of the Gospel and Christian faith.

Even though growing up I truly desired to follow God well, my freshman year at Baylor saw radical change in my pursuit of the Lord. It was in Waco that I first experienced authentic Christian community, and I became passionate about fostering similar community for peers like me, students who wanted to follow the Lord faithfully but needed friends to challenge and walk alongside them. As a result, I became a community group leader in my college ministry and fell in love with the ministry of discipleship.

This passion brought me to Christ Chapel, where I get to disciple others while being discipled myself. I feel privileged to be part of the work the Lord is doing here while also benefitting from the collective wisdom of the staff. God is so faithful to grow me in the ways He knows I need to be more like Him, and I am grateful to get to do that here at Christ Chapel!

I am an avid book reader, coffee drinker, language learner, and plant mom. In another life I would live on a self-sustaining farm and make all my own food from scratch. At Baylor I learned to appreciate old books and thinkers while studying what it means to be human. I have an extra lumbar vertebra and a twin brother. We are unsure how many lumbar vertebrae he has.

I grew up in a large, fun, and loving family. Christianity wasn’t a part of my childhood or family as no one in my family was Christian. It wasn’t until the end of high school that I began to search and seek for something more; something bigger than myself. I became incredibly curious to know more about existence of God and who He might be. Through my searching, I became intrigued my the God of the Bible and His Son, Jesus. My curiosity led me to visiting an evening church service at CCBC one random Sunday. The Lord immediately captivated me. I was quickly redirected to CCBC’s High School Ministry and was immediately connected to a small group. Within the next few months, I was able to work through difficult questions, hesitations, and doubts with my small group leaders and peers. The Lord worked in my heart, through other believers and the Holy Spirit, and brought me to full surrender to Him.

I love two-stepping, paddle boarding, and anything outdoors. I love just about every flavor of ice cream (except vanilla – it’s not a real flavor). I recently graduated from TCU where I studied Economics and attended the college ministry at The Aardvark. I am so excited to move into the Young Adult’s Residency and join the CCBC Staff!