Ashland has been my home community for 35 years, and St. James the Less has been my church community for 22 years.  Before joining SJTL, I had been volunteering as a Middle School Youth Group leader since 1999 at a nearby church, and when my own children began approaching middle school age, I began searching for a church with their peers in the youth program.

In 2002 I began attending SJTL because of the vibrant youth program lead by Jane and Yancy Jones, Susan Hubbard, Valerie Lee (now Althoff), Richard Grosse, Aleta Meyer, and many others.

By 2004, Aleta and I were married, and together we volunteered in various ways with the SJTL Youth programs for the next 16 years.  The Covid pandemic and a work-related move to Albuquerque interrupted our participation at SJTL for 3 years, but we are back in Ashland now!  

I also occasionally sing Bass in Choir, and I was very fortunate to have a father who was an Episcopal Priest. He taught me important lessons like to only allow vestry meetings to run for one hour, which is a lesson I hope to help facilitate!

My lifelong avocation has been computer related work, and I currently serve as a defense contractor for US Space Force, doing cool stuff involving satellites.  Perhaps my best quality is that my wife is even cooler than I am!