Ministry experience

I have led and assisted with classes in children’s ministries in several churches over the years, also helping out with special events like vacation bible schools and day trips. I have also teamed up with various local churches/ministries to do street evangelism, encouraging and assisting the homeless, and have done counseling-type work with college-age students on a mission trip to 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 better 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 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 and were 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, and supporting teams that would do ministry in brothels.

I am very thankful for the exposure to various ministry settings that I have had, and by God’s grace and allowance, I hope to continue in both local and international missions endeavors.

Counseling experience

Aside from the experience in my graduate degree (i.e. practice sessions) and counseling-type work I have done in the non-professional sense, I am gaining professional experience as an intern at A New Life Christian Counseling. My theoretical approach to counseling is eclectic, drawing from multiple counseling theories and interventions in order to best meet each client’s needs.