About
I may not be able to change the world, but I can help to change the conditions of a handful of people on this earth, letting them know that they are not alone. There is a God that knows each one of them by name and loves them and there are more than a handful of people who will love them too.
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation.” Nelson Mandela
I am not asking to be a great individual. I don’t even like the spotlight. I know that it is our time and our generation to be the generation to change our world. I just want to be a part of that. I want to be a part of God’s heart for the entire world and all of the injustice that we have created. I am honored to be able to be among the numbers that are answering the call to help; to be someone to show the love of Christ in a world of darkness and oppression.
I am a native of the Kingdom of Heaven, but my time on earth started in the afternoon on August the 5th, 1984 when I took my first breaths at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. I grew up a happy child with knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. I attended Christian schools until I was a Junior in high school when I transferred to Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri. I received many honors there for outstanding cadet, academic, and athletic performance, and graduated at the top of my class.
I enrolled in Westmont College, a Christian liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, California where I pursued a degree in Biology. I received that degree after years in attendance. After college I thought that I wanted to enroll in a PhD program for environmental/evolutionary Biology, but joined Youth With A Mission (YWAM) for a period before applying to graduate school. In YWAM I realized that my life was going to be used for global humanitarian effort in the pursuit of love, specifically focused on the injustices that are present in every part of the world. YWAM led me to Africa, where I spent close to 6 months working on the HIV/AIDS pandemic that has killed over 2 million people and affects another 24.7 million just in sub-Saharan Africa alone.
That is part of my public “this is what I have done”, but my life is much deeper than that, of course. Before receiving the calling to be a advocate, I have always lived for myself, pursuing greatness on my own. This type of life led to unfulfilled and worthless life. In my past I had experimented with drugs, alcohol, and broken relationships. All were last-ditch efforts for acceptance and fulfillment. Deep down, I knew that there was something deeper and something of substance in life. I finally found it when I realized that my life is not my own. Every day since that moment has been a fulfilling journey, every day exciting. There are challenges and struggles here and there, but nothing compared to the satisfaction of living for something outside of myself. In Africa, I came face to face with those who needed help the most, holding a child who was HIV positive that should have been dead years ago, or that young woman who was on her deathbed, or even that young soul who had escaped with their life; eyes beaming with the light of a brighter future.
There are more out there my age who are tired of what the world has to offer. That is why I believe this is a generation that will be great, when we work together towards those needs outside of ourselves; no matter what it means, or what the cost is.
