Ministry Experience

Throughout my late teens and early twenties I led and assisted with classes in children’s

ministries in several churches over the years, also assisting with other activities such as vacation bible schools and day trips. During this season I was also engaged in various

church-related ministries which entailed evangelism, encouraging and assisting the homeless,

and some brief, counseling-type work with college students in Macedonia.

In 2018, I embarked on a six-month discipleship training school and outreach across Western

Europe with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). While there, my team and I were engaged in street

evangelism, teaching from the Bible at teen-focused church events, providing humanitarian-aid

at refugee camps and impoverished communities, and more. The key focus of this mission trip

was to know God at a deeper level and make Him known.

In 2019, shortly after marrying my wife whom I met overseas, we left again to Western Europe

to volunteer at a YWAM base in Romania. We spent 3 months there, doing evangelism work in

a bustling nightlife district and helping with a children’s ministry located in a government housing

facility (most of the children there had frequent exposure to many forms of abuse). For the next

three months we attended a YWAM Anti-Human Trafficking School, being sent to Germany for

an outreach which included lots of prayer, helping out at night market booths that raised

awareness for the global issue of human trafficking/sex-trafficking, volunteering at a cafe

ministry aimed at helping war-hardened military personnel heal, and supporting teams that

would help those that were actively trapped in sex-trafficking.

I am very thankful for the exposure to various ministry settings that I have had, which I believe

has only given me more tools to pull from in regards to Christian counseling. By God’s grace

and allowance, I hope to continue in both local and international missions endeavors.

Counseling experience

Aside from the counseling experience in the non-professional sense, I spent a year doing

professional counseling work at A New Life Christian Counseling as an intern counselor. I have

recently finished my graduate degree at Liberty University and I am now licensed as a Mental

Health Counselor Associate, continuing to gain experience in this helping role. My theoretical approach to counseling is primarily faith-based, also drawing from multiple counseling theories and interventions in order to best meet each client’s needs.