About Me

My Story – How Grace Changed My Heart

I’ve been thinking recently about what it means to live in response to God’s Grace. If you had asked me three years ago if I would become a full time missionary, I would have laughed. I attended Babson College where I studied finance and entrepreneurship, won Babson’s John Muller business plan competition, won the Roger W. Babson award, and aspired to a successful career in business. I loved it. It was fun. And that’s where I was headed. But over the past year, as I have worked sharing the gospel and building into students lives, Grace has captured my heart. Grace is a free gift that we don’t deserve that God gives us in spite of ourselves and our sin. It is based entirely on who God is, not on what we do. There came a point where I realized that I couldn’t fix my life at all. But the good news of the gospel is that I don’t need to. That’s what Jesus Christ did.

Paul writes to the Ephesians: “Because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when you were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.” My life has been changed by God’s grace. In response, I am going to share that grace with others.

My Spiritual Journey in a nutshell

There’s no magical moment that I “came to know Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.” I can’t put a day on it. Instead, as physical birth takes 9 months beforehand and a lifetime of growth afterward, so in my walk, the conversion has been a process. Growing up, I went to a Catholic Church, but I was more interested in going out for breakfast afterwards. Throughout high school, I stayed involved in my church, teaching Sunday school and having great discussions with others about the Bible and what it meant to be a Christian. At some point during those years, I came to understand, more than intellectually, that Jesus Christ had died for my sins. And so while there wasn’t a particular moment of “conversion” it certainly happened. And it is continuing to happen. Over the last four years of college, God has continued to work in my life, giving me a greater understanding of His character and his saving Grace in my life.