Danny has called North Carolina home since he was a youth in middle school. The passionate runner and musician taps into his life experiences in short-term missions and retreats to help connect with kids of all ages to experience God outside of their everyday context.
He loves helping people make connections. Danny lived and worked in Ecuador for two years, and his job was to connect people across cultures. He uses this experience today as he teaches, preaches and plugs students in to events and projects while walking with them as they experience new things.
While Danny has been all over the mountains, the coast, and the jungle in Ecuador, he would like to see much more of South America. The adventurous family ministry director has hiked the Chimborazo volcano, the summit of which is the farthest point from the center of the earth. And as he admits, “I’ve been closer to outer space than anybody but astronauts — or as my Ecuadorian friends like to joke, ‘closer to Heaven’.”
He credits his ministries’ success to surrounding himself with people whose lives are worth imitating. He says, “every time I started serving in some way in the Church — as a kid, a youth, and an adult — it was because I looked up to someone and wanted to imitate them.” He adds, “In children’s and youth ministry now, I strive to be that person for all of the kids here at Soapstone.”