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Ubicación: Galloway, Ohio, Estados Unidos

Married 40 years (04 June) to my beautiful, cradle Catholic wife and our two grown "boys", 39 (Critical Care RN) and 27 (Lab Tech Fellow - special needs college student). -----My Profession of Faith into the Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) from a family experience in Judaism, Quaker/Friends Church, Lutheran (ELCA, Missouri Synod), as well as my own faith journey in many other Protestant/Evangelical traditions has now been 35 years ago this past Easter. I was in active parish ministry in parishes working as a Parish Catechetical Leader and RCIA/Adult Faith Formation Leader for 30 years. I also am an experienced part-time teacher in middle school theology as well as some substitute teaching, and served as a Parish School Advisory Board Member and President. -----Prior to becoming a full time professional lay ecclesial minister, I spent over 20 years in business management positions in the advertising and industrial cutting tool industries after completing undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University in 1984. ----- I completed my graduate studies in Theology at Ohio Dominican University. ----- In response to our shared baptismal vocation, we are called to share the Good News of Jesus Christ to all we encounter, no matter where that encounter may occur. Jesus' encounters with the Woman at the Well or on the Road to Emmaus reminds us that in our life's journey, these encounters can occur anywhere at anytime. Much of our life's journey today occurs in the online world. Utilizing technology to evangelize and catechize is a wonderful example of meeting people where they are. I am committed to meet each of you where you are and am honored to be accompanying you here at VLCFF. -------"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers will bring us to Him. When it becomes really necessary (i.e. for our spiritual life, not for controversy or curiosity) to know whether a particular passage is rightly translated or is Myth (but of course Myth specially chosen by God from among countless Myths to carry a spiritual truth) or history, we shall no doubt be guided to the right answer. But we must not use the Bible (our ancestors too often did) as a sort of Encyclopedia out of which texts (isolated from their context and read without attention to the whole nature and purport of the books in which they occur) can be taken for use as weapons."........ from the "Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis"