What brought you to Christ in the City?
During the Fall of 2023, I decided to go on a mission trip to Christ in the City during my fall break. This trip left a deep impression on me, and I knew I had to return, so I applied to lead a mission trip for my school the following year. This meant I got to go back for my spring break in 2025. My heart resonated with the mission of Christ in the City and their life of simplicity, charity, and prayer. In an indescribable yet very transformative way, my short experiences so far at CIC, has been a fertile ground in which Christ has begun to give me glimpses of the depths of His love and has revealed to me my dependence on the poor to lead me further to this love. Applying to serve for a year with CITC seemed to be the only possible response to my experience of Christ’s presence within this beautiful mission and people.
What are you looking forward to?
I am looking forward to growing in greater union with God through His beloved poor and forming real relationships with the homeless. I am excited to grow in self-sacrifice to truly give myself away in love for others and receive what God desires to give me. I can’t wait to see how He is going to make a way in our hearts this year! There is so much more but ill leave it at that!
A little bit about me…
I love my family and friends a whole lot. I am the youngest of 3. I went to Iowa State University for a year and a half studying nutritional science, and I transferred to Benedictine College to study Theology. Some of my favorite things are making ceramics, going on walks and runs, laughing with friends, smelling flowers, sitting around a campfire, combining random flavor concoctions, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Mary of Bethany, and doing all things very slowly.
Where is your hometown?
Sioux City, IA
