Production Lead

About Me and My Testimony

Growing up in the cornfields of Indiana, I was raised as many kids were. We would run around tearing up the countryside on ATV's and (homemade) go karts, "flying" from trees, and sending paintballs in the air. Throughout my childhood, my family never had TV, so we were "forced" to get creative with how we would entertain ourselves. This instilled a love of the outdoors, hands-on living, and operating under the beautiful, natural presence of God. As I look around, I'm constantly amazed by the magnitude of creation, both seen and unseen. 

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I graduated high school in 2016 and attended Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis shortly after. I studied biomedical engineering under a full ride scholarship, and had a blast doing it. However, there came a point near the end of the second semester that I felt something was missing. Through high school, my pursuits were very much my own. God was not included much in my academics and I believed myself a straight 'A' student by my hard work. As I grew closer to other Christians around me, I felt compelled to step out in faith and rely on God for my future. This is when the Coast Guard was introduced into my life.

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In third grade, my father had planted a seed in me after watching Coast Guard Alaska while we were on vacation. Since then, I had always had an inkling in the back of my head that desired to be a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer. Jumping back to my time in college, I knew that in order to accomplish this dream of becoming one of these elite military members, I could not rely on my own hand. That is when I decided to drop out of college after my first year and step out in faith for the first time... the best decision I ever made. However, it was not as simple as this. That summer I ended up getting disqualified from the Coast Guard for a prior injury I sustained back in eighth grade. Needless to say, I still had faith that God was going to accomplish what He started and I began the waiver process with the recruiter. Two weeks before classes started, my mom asked me if I had thought about registering for classes in case the Coast Guard didn't work out. This is the moment that I realized I was all in. I chose the Coast Guard and if I wasn't accepted, I at least knew I was within God's will. One week after watching all of my college friends go back to work, I received a call from the recruiter. I was accepted.

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After going through Boot Camp in Cape May, NJ, I trained for ten months before attending Aviation Survival Technician (AST) 'A' School. As one of the hardest experiences of my life, I can truly say that it was only by God and for God that I passed. I was then stationed in Mobile, AL where I became a fully qualified AST/Rescue Swimmer. This is also where I truly fell in love with the Church at City Hope. I became heavily involved in production and felt called to bring it outside of the church walls. My love for both production and the Holy Spirit truly grew to a NEW level. Amongst this preparation period, I never really knew what was next until it was revealed to me over the course of several months. I have always felt a call to this NEW generation, but wasn't until this point that I felt the yearning of something more... something that was missing (just like my experience back in college). 

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This is where NEW Productions was birthed from. God interceded in my life, and as I began to pray over this outreach that He placed on my heart, the Holy Spirit made me new. And I realized how big of a deal it was to become completely new without any reminence of the past. I wanted to share this with the world, but in a very untraditional way... a way that would spark a revival in an unconventional setting. As I examine the production industry, I find it is difficult to find openly Christian producers. This is where my calling sat. What if I infiltrated an extremely secular environment with a light that can overcome the darkness and with the power of the Holy Spirit. We don't bow to culture... but instead, we create an attractive Jesus culture centered around the Holy Spirit.

We party. But we party the right way.