Who Are We?

Hi! My name is Bradley! Since 2017, my wife Marisa and I (and our two kids!) have been living in Utah as Christian missionaries to help bring the Gospel of Grace to the least-reached state in the U.S.

If you scroll down on this page, you'll see several of the ministries that we've been involved with for the past several years, but before we get to that, let me briefly tell you about ourselves.

Both Marisa and I grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. I graduated from The Moody Bible Institute in 2017 with a degree in church planting, and am presently pursuing an MDiv from Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary in Owensboro, Kentucky. Marisa and I were married in 2018, and helped out with a church plant in the Salt Lake area for several years. We have two kids (Daniel is 5, Chloe is 3), and are members at Crossroads Church in Sandy, Utah. Marisa is a stay-at-home mom and takes good care of our children. Theologically, we're Baptists and most closely align with the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (The 1689 Confession).

For almost a decade now, I've been supported by faithful believers who want to see the Gospel flourish in Utah. In that time, many of our supporters have gone on to support other ministries (praise God for the generosity of His Saints!). We're looking for individuals and churches who are interested in financially supporting us as missionaries. (I'd say "partner with us," but that sounded a bit too cliché...)

Scroll down to learn about our various ministries, and why we're devoted to Gospel ministry here in Utah.

Why Utah?

Simply put, because Utah is the least reached state in the United States. 

About 10 minutes away from the Utah Christian Research Center (where I'm at typing this), there's a heavily populated county that has ~.4% Evangelicals, putting it on par with the least reached areas in the world. With the state being predominantly influenced by Mormonism and growing secularism, Utah desperately needs more Christians and churches. 

There’s a category in missionary work often used to identify the most under-reached areas that exist on the face of the planet. These areas are commonly referred to as “unreached people groups.” In order for a group of people to be considered “unreached” there needs to be fewer than 2% Evangelical Christians living in that area. Many think of these groups as existing exclusively overseas, but there are multiple counties and cities here that fall below that 2% mark, making Utah the least reached state in the U.S.

(This is a recent image showing the breakdown of the % of evangelicals per-county. Source data was taken from https://thearda.com) 

Weekly Street Evangelism

What use is making resources for evangelism if we don't go out and actually evangelize?! Every Thursday night, I hit the streets (along with other believers from several different churches) and talk with random Latter-day Saints about the Gospel.

This has been one of the most important parts of ministry here. It helps remind me that the internet world of controversy and conflict doesn't typify normal interactions. It helps ground a lot of the content I produce. If you never interact with people you disagree with, it can become easy to demonize them. To see them at their worst. To become cold and calloused. One of the greatest remedies for this is to simply talk with them. Latter-day Saints are an easy people to love, and these weekly interactions renew my desire to do everything I can so that God may "grant them a repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth." 

Since we've been doing this for almost a decade, I've had the opportunity to form relationships with regular Latter-day Saints that walk by on the street. The question everyone wants to know is: do we see salvations come from this? While these kinds of interactions are more about tilling the soil for future interactions, yes. Though it's not common, we have seen tangible fruit from "stranger" evangelism.