Spring 2025 Newsletter. My first one!

3/26/2025

Hello Friends!

Happy Spring! I’m excited to be sending out my first newsletter. Thank you so much for signing up 🙂

I’m looking at this as social media without using social media. I really appreciate that you’re interested in what’s going on in my life and I want to know what’s going on in your life too. Please feel free to write back. 

I’ll plan to break these newsletters into three categories: Projects, Evangelization, and Family. I’ll keep things brief but include links in case you would like to read more. 

Projects

As you may already know, I’ve had a book in the works for a decade, but I’m in the final steps. It’s a memoir of my faith journey through adolescence and young manhood and reflects on the human condition, salvation history, and many of the complicated issues that young people wrestle with including relationships and issues of sexuality. The manuscript is currently being reviewed for an Imprimatur, which is the official declaration from a Catholic bishop that the book is free from doctrinal errors and suitable to print. I have some original artwork for the cover and I’m currently working with a book designer for the text and layout. I hope my summer newsletter will have information regarding a launch day. I’m trying to do all this as “official” as I can, hence creating a mailing list, using a professional email, creating a website, etc. I want this book (and my life) to be a blessing to others, and sometimes more official means of communication can be effective. 

On the hands-on building end of things, I’ve recently finished up a commissioned project for a friend. It’s a cabinet with electronics for displaying roller signs from an old tour bus. 

Evangelization Efforts

I try to get out for street evangelization once a month. It didn’t happen in January, but we had a really wonderful time at Bucknell University in February. 

This past Sunday, I preached a sermon! I’m friends with a local evangelical pastor who preaches once a month at a nursing home in Selinsgrove, and he couldn’t make it and asked if I would do something in his place. It was a lovely experience and I look forward to doing more. 

I have plans for Street Evangelization this Friday. Please say a prayer for us and those we encounter! 

Family

It’s been a fun winter with the family but we’re glad it’s spring! We got the girls out skating a few times and a highlight was a trip to Eagles Mere for the toboggan run. But now that the weather is nicer, we’re spending a lot more time in the yard and riding bikes together. 

Looking ahead, we signed Clara up for a baseball league for children with special needs and are really looking forward to it! She’s never been part of a sports team before. We also plan to get baby chickens one of these days, and come May, we’re going to start up Ultimate Frisbee on the Millmont Village Green.

God bless you all and thanks for reading!

Peace of Christ, 

Lucas