About

I grew up in Hoboken, NJ just outside of NYC in the 80's and 90's. I wasn't raised in a religious home. I was from a single parent home and my mother would try to show us Catholic Mass on television and maybe take us to Catholic Church on Holidays but for the most part we were unchurched. There was a VBS at a Lutheran Church my Mom says she took me to but I don't remember it at all. We were from a poor neighborhood where Mormon missionaries also targeted us and we were deceived for a little while and even me and my older brother were baptized there but eventually we stopped going. It was my Mom and three boys of whom I am the youngest. 

Eventually the middle son, my older brother by 5 years, gave his heart to the Lord after searching for God and someone encouraged him to read the book of John and pray for God to show him if He is real. My brother was then discipled by some faithful brothers in the church and then they encouraged him to share a Bible tract with me and asking me if I wanted to trust Jesus as my Savior. I reasoned to myself that if God existed he would want to make a way to connect with us and so I prayed to trust Jesus and asked God to forgive my sin and make him Lord of my life. I immediately felt a change in my heart and I now know that was the Holy Spirit that made me born again but everything looked beautiful and everything also made sense. I also knew I was supposed to forgive others and love others instead because God forgave me. Up until then I was a very sad and depressed kid and so I knew that this was real. I just didn't know exactly what was important about Jesus or what he did for us or that I was even separate from God because of sin.

Eventually I joined a strong discipleship group and Church with my brother and had the privilege of having multiple mentors in my life and had some great biblical instruction and examples in ministry. I got saved in 1995 and have been walking with the Lord ever since, not to say that I hadn't fallen into sin here and there, but I've always sought the Lord through it all. 

In Christ,

Brendan