About Me

Biography

I was born in Homestead AFB, Florida in 1964 and was raised in a military environment moving around from place to place until my family ultimately retired in Tampa, Florida in 1979. I was brought up believing in God and having a real sense of God’s prescence.

It was in Tampa where I completed high school and went to Mirror Lake & Tomlinson School of Graphic Design for two years and completed a B.A. degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida.

I was married when I was 21 only to find myself getting a divorce six years later. It was in my late teens and twenties when I stopped going to church. I found the church to be irrelevant to me during this time up until my divorce.
After my divorce, I felt an emptiness inside, and I was recovering from much heartache. It was then when I really felt the Lord pulling me towards Him. I knew I needed to return to the church to draw closer to God and to find some relief from my pain.

In my effort to find God and to heal from my divorce, I discovered God in a very new and different way than before. In 1993, a friend of mine invited me to her church and so I started to regularly attend. I had never read the Bible for myself, but this church emphasized that Christians should read and know God’s word. Through learning and fellowship in this church, God became very real to me and He began to change me inside. I was very eager to become an active member; being involved in everything. Although this was just the beginning of a process of ups and downs, backsliding and growth, that would eventually lead me to leave that church, and on a road to healing and new begininings in a new church home in 2000.

Since 1985, I had been working for different companies as a graphic designer which evolved in time to a multimedia developer. Since the mid 1990s I’ve been involved in web design and authoring CD-ROM applications.

My interest in missions began in the Spring of 1995 when I was listening to a program on Christian radio. It was about the Josh McDowell Ministry going to Russia in August of 1995 to share the Gospel with the people of Russia. It stirred my heart to go and in a matter of weeks the door opened for me and I was going to Russia with the Josh McDowell Ministry. This was my first taste of missions that initiated a desire to do more.

Since then I had been on several other 2-week mission trips which included a couple of trips to Brazil, Kazakhstan and finally Scotland. In 2000, I had moved across the bay to St. Petersburg and found a new church home that nurtured my desire for missions. That church is Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg. In this church I had taken courses through the School of Ministry for cross-cultural ministry. My profession as a multimedia developer often crossed into ministry while working for a Christian-owned advertising and marketing agency, Digital Lightbridge in Tampa. It was during this time when I realized that I could not ignore the desire to serve in missions full time.

During the Fall of 2003 I decided to go into full-time missions to Scotland. (See the Call) By the Summer of 2004, I had moved to Scotland to serve where I am working today.