YEARS MARRIED: 50
CHILDREN: 3
GRANDCHILDREN: 4
YEARS IN THE DIACONATE: 9
HOW THEY MET: “After meeting Sharon’s brother on the Loyola University campus and becoming friends, I discovered Sharon was my best friend.”
WHAT THEY DO FOR FUN: “Going to the movies, gardening, walking the Huntington Beach pier”
HIS ROLE IN THE CHURCH: “Assisting at Sunday Mass and helping out at our parish HOPE office, a ministry that serves the homeless people in the community”
WHAT DREW HIM TO THE DIACONATE: “A desire to serve others and bring Jesus’ message of hope and understanding”
HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE: “Due to health issues, I am not able to do as much for the Church and my parish as I would like to do.”
FAVORITE SCRIPTURE: John 15:16 — “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.”