It is my first year serving at Dickinson State University in North Dakota! Go Blue Hawks!!
I was born and raised Catholic, in Lincoln, Nebraska. I attended Catholic school through high school. I then went on to study architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Go Big Red! (Home of the World Record for attendance at a women’s sporting event!)
When I got to college it was amidst the Covid-19 epidemic shutdown, and I spent the first year of college in the isolation of my bedroom in my parent’s house. This made my faith a very difficult task, I began to feel alone and poured everything into my college study, it became my whole identity. Through the next few years I got increasingly more involve at our Newman Center and started to develop a true relationship with God.
It was through the accompaniment of various friends at the Newman Center that I was truly able to get to a place where I was able to understand God’s love for me. I understood my identity as a beloved son of God! I want all students to understand and feel that too. I first heard God calling me to mission at SEEK23, I then spent the next summer as a Totus Tuus missionary.
Working as a missionary for the summer opened the door to God’s call for me after graduation to missionary life yet again, this time as a FOCUS missionary. Through much prayer and discernment I said yes to Jesus and His call to fulfillHis Great Commission!
When I answered the call to join FOCUS, I made the decision to rely on the spiritual and financial support of mission partners to help me through this mission. I’ve been blessed with the most amazing people who have journeyed with me as I serve on campus.
If you are interested in partnering with me, please let me know of the best way to reach you and I will schedule an appointment. I’d be honored to share this mission with you!