I was ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons on February 7, 2004. I attended Deacon school in the Chicago Diocese for three years, after completing a formal discernment process for two years. I had felt the call to the priesthood since I was in eighth grade, yet it was not until I went through the formal parish discernment process that I realized that I was to be in servant ministry as an ordained deacon. I really feel called to the ministry of pastoral care.

I was raised on a dairy farm just three miles west of St. John's. I graduated from Naperville Central High School, and have eight years of schooling beyond High School, including three years of Deacon School. I was a supervisor at a reform school for boys, and I taught school for six years. I have been a self employed farrier, as well as a rodeo cowboy where I USED TO ride bare-back bucking horses near Dallas, Texas. I have been a Dupage County electrician for over 20 years.

As a child my family attended a small rural church. At that time it was called Wheatland Salem Evangelical United Bretheran, but later united with the Methodist Church. I joined the Episcopal church before marrying my wife,Debbie. I am the proud father of three daughters and one son, that bring me great joy.