He began in campus ministry at DePaul University in 2002 and then, after hanging up his turntables, went to law school and soon dropped out to enter seminary. After graduating from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, he became the ninth pastor in his family. He recently merged a 29-year old Filipino American church in the suburbs with a young, multicultural church plant in the city. He is a husband and father, Bulls season ticket holder, and PhD student in Christian Ethics at Loyola University.