
| A Short Biographical Sketch |
with and then directed Living Water, Yale’s Christian a cappella chorale. He was a leader in campus Bible studies at Yale for many more years, and worked with Bible studies at Princeton for several years. More recently, he has been a regular guest speaker at Yale and Columbia. An ordained minister, a singer and songwriter, he is the author of more than thirty sacred songs, including the lyrical “How Glad the Morning” and “As the Streams of Living Water.”
Massachusetts. After his freshman year at Yale, he withdrew from the university, unable to afford the costs, and worked in home improvement contracting in Yonkers for several years. Later he returned to Yale to complete his degree, graduating with honors in 1987 with a major in Middle Eastern History. His senior essay, A Time to Favor Zion: the Jews of Jerusalem 1825-1850, was labeled “brilliant” by the Chancellor of Tel Aviv University.
Scarsdale High School, the Greenwich Country Day School, and the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. As of July 1, 2007, he retired from teaching mathematics at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan to go into full-time evangelism. Honors received while in education include being nominated in 2003 to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, being named Outstanding Teacher in the Upper School at Sacred Heart in 2005, and an Outstanding Teacher award from the University of Chicago in 2006. He and his wife Pilar have four sons, ages 12 to 18.
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