I am serving as the Senior Warden. I was born and raised in a Christian home in northern New Jersey. I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior as a teenager. At age 21 I moved to Colorado to attend Colorado State University where I met the love of my life, Margie. We decided to join the Episcopal Church and we were married in 1969. We have two sons and three grandchildren.

We have always been active in our church and in other Christian pursuits including Cursillo, Marriage Encounter, and Bible studies. I have been a member of several Vestry’s and been a Senior Warden in three different congregations. At the Light of Christ, I have served as a prayer minister, Lector, chalice minister, and chair of the Safety/Security Team. I had to step back to help care of my adult son living with us when he became an invalid. 

God has guided my life and blessed me in so many ways, and it is an honor to serve Him in and through The Light of Christ.

My husband, Christopher (Chris) and I have been married for over five years. We have a three-year old son named Benjamin (Benji), and a daughter, about 18 months named Cassandra (Cassie), and two little dogs – Nova and Revan – our perma-puppies. If you’ve been at TLC for even a short time, you probably at least know me as “Benji’s mom”. Chris and I met in 2018 and married during the tumultuous year of 2020.

As a lifelong believer that grew up in the Episcopal Church and comes from a family with Roman Catholic roots, I was interested in finding a church with traditions similar to the best of what I experienced growing up. My husband – a history buff with a strong interest in church history and tradition – wanted the same for us and our kids. Shortly after marrying and becoming pregnant with our first child, Chris and I found TLC. We quickly felt at home with the pastoral staff and the wonderful new friends we found here.

A rare native-born Coloradan, I moved out of state for several years after high school first to attend Boston University and then to attend the Universty of St. Augustine where I earned my Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. On moving back to Colorado to be closer to family, I became interested in working with the elderly specializing in providing therapy to people in assisted living facilities as well as at-home care.

When I’m not feeding Cassie, doing “on marks” (sprints) with Benji, I love spending time with Chris, watching Denver Nuggets games, and playing my trumpet. I started playing at age 10 and still play with the Denver Concert Band. I’m also an accomplished amateur baker and chocolatier. I’ve made wedding cakes for some of my closest friends, and I make chocolate truffels from scatch for family and friends every Christmas. 

You can call me Moo. I have attended TLC since 2014 with my family.  This is my second year serving on the TLC Vestry.  I learned a lot in the first year and I look forward to continuing to serving the people of TLC.  

I serve at church by teaching Sunday School in the Pre K – 2nd grade class, chalice and sing in the Karen choir.  I am blessed to have such a great church family and I expect to attend for many years to come.  I graduated from high school in 2022, and have taken some college courses, and I was accepted as a Chatechist by Pastor Donald and Bishop Ken last summer and I serve in the Karen community. I currently work in a day care center in Aurora, I love working with children. 

My wife Megan and I got married in 1999 and we have one daughter, Annika. I was born in the Chicago suburbs and spent nearly all of my childhood there, attending Plainfield High School.  Megan was born in Grand Rapids, MI and lived there until her family moved to Indianapolis while she was in grade school. 

I graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a BS in Ceramic Engineering in 1997 and an MS in Materials Science and Engineering in 1999.  In 1997 I met my now wife Megan (at a wedding).  After getting married we lived in Indianapolis and I worked in telecommunications with GTE.  We attended a United Methodist church in Indianapolis.  When GTE and Bell Atlantic merged to become Verizon, my part of the company was spun off as a separate business called Genuity.  Around that time, I was offered an opportunity to relocate to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area with my company, so we took advantage of that. In DFW Megan taught high school French (and briefly a bit of German).  After a few years, my company filed for bankruptcy.  I survived multiple rounds of layoffs but was reevaluating my future.  I decided to go back to school for a PhD at the University of North Texas.  I completed that in 2007 and was hired by UNT to manage their materials characterization facility.   In 2010, we had the great joy of adopting Annika in China. While in DFW we attended a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.

In 2011 I was offered the opportunity by a former colleague for a Research Professor position at Colorado School of Mines.  We moved to our current home then.  I have progressed through a few different research and management roles at Mines, where I am now the director of our Shared Instrumentation Facility (a campus-wide facility of various characterization and fabrication techniques used by both internal and external users).  Megan is now the executive director of the American Association of Teachers of French – a non-profit for French teachers.  We attended an LCMS church in the Denver area until 2023 and have been at TLC since the summer of 2023.  We love the liturgy, family feel, the multicultural emphasis, and the engagement with the community. 

My wife, Anne, and I recently celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary. My wife and I are from Southern California, and we moved to Colorado almost 15 years ago. We always hoped to retire here, and God opened doors for both of us to have job opportunities that allowed us to move to the Denver area. We have 2 grown children, a son and a daughter. Our son still lives in the LA area, and our daughter and her family moved from Southern California to the Denver area about 3 years ago. This means the commute to see our two granddaughters [going on 6 and 9 years old] has gotten much shorter and much more frequent!

Anne and I have been part of the TLC community for over 10 years. We came to TLC for the first time during a very challenging time in our lives, and knew right away that TLC was where  God wanted us to be. Anne has been involved in leading a small group for women, and serving as a member of the Pastoral Care Team for TLC.

I am living in what I sometimes jokingly refer to as my Third Life. I worked in restaurants for about 25 years as everything from dishwasher to General Manager - my First Life. I taught high school science for 25 years beginning in California and finishing in Colorado - my Second Life. I retired almost 4 years ago and so I am in my Third Life. I get to see our grandchildren at least once a week and usually for a Saturday overnight once a month. God has also structured my time to allow my involvement in 2 ministries that are very dear to my heart. I currently lead our Refugee Support Team ministry, and have been involved with two families so far. The refugee support team is not aimed at our Karen community, but exists to support families that enter the U.S. as part of the State Department’s involvement in the U.N. Refugee Resettlement Program. I also lead our Outreach and Missions Team. This team seeks to directly serve the Harvey Park neighborhood around TLC in an effort to help meet needs that exist in the community. I look forward to what God has planned for me - and for TLC in the future.

My wife, Stacey, and I have been married for 33 years. We have three children: 28-year-old son and daughter (twins), both happily married, and a 24-year-old son who is soon to be happily married, and two dogs to help fill our empty nest.

I was born in Denver and grew up in the Bear Valley area. I graduated from John F. Kennedy high school, then attended Colorado State University and graduated with a civil engineering degree. Following college, I took a position in southern California and attended graduate school, That’s where the Lord introduced me to my future forever partner, Stacey. After 9 years there, in 1998, we moved (back) to Colorado

My faith journey has not always been a straight path. I was raised in the Catholic church where I received my first communion and confirmation. But by age 16 I was sadly neglecting my faith;  I walked that empty path for many years. Though looking back, God never stopped pursuing me. In 1999 we began attending St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, led at the time by then Pastor, now Bishop, Ken Ross. Through him and the church, I found Jesus Christ.

We have been members of TLC since 2002, through the high and not so high times, and have never wanted to be anywhere else. I’ve had the pleasure of serving in many ministries over the years, from Sunday school teacher to a homeless food service ministry to outreach and missions. All of it has been an honor and blessing. I am now honored to be nominated for Vestry and, if accepted, will be grateful to serve you all in this role.