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.
How has Christ in the City helped you grow?
I have been made new at Christ in the City. I have learned how to see the other as they truly are, and thus, I have been set free to love. My heart has been expanded to love far beyond the love I came into Christ in the City with. He has shown me that truly every person is lovable and every person’s story is held in such tenderness and reverence in the Father’s heart. The poor have formed a cosmic change in the way I pray. That is, they have made my prayer to God more honest through the vulnerability that has been shared with me and seeing the freedom that comes when you “let all things come to the light.” It is through my friends on the street that I have received the courage to open wide the door to Christ, let Him enter, and let Him love me.
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