On a restless Friday night in August 1998, I found myself at a crossroads. Eight months out of college and six months into the Nashville Business Journal, I was longing for something more. All around the nation, it seemed, high schoolers were killing each other, crying out in hopelessness and despair. And there I was pouring my best efforts out for the temporal profit of an eternally insignificant weekly journal. Something had to give, and the next day it did.

On that Saturday morning I met Gregg Cunningham, of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), who thrilled my heart with a vision of both the need and opportunity to find my full-time vocation in a service of love, for the glory of God, and the good of His people (though the opportunity wasn't presented in those specific terms, that is how I saw it!).

Five months after meeting Gregg, and with the thrill of John Piper's Desiring God, Pleasures of God, and Hunger for God coursing through my veins, I returned to Southern California to begin a wholly unknown, but longed for journey with CBR, wanting to live a life that shone forth as an utter absurdity to the watching world, a life of wealth-forsaking, risk-taking that would be foolish but for the reality that I'm going to be raised from the dead someday into the arms of a waiting Saviour. Oh, to sing with Martin Luther, "let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also, the body they may kill, God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever!"

In continued pursuit of these lofty ambitions I launched, on January 1, 2000, the original Loxafamosity website, as a forum for the creative expression of the surpassing worth of Christ amidst an increasingly worthless culture. In September of 2003, LoxDesign joined the mix to help generate the necessary resources to help give the Lox vision a much wider hearing. In 2004, Loxafamosity Ministries officially incorporated as a non-profit organization to begin our most ambitious and crucial project to date, Abort73.com. In July of 2004, I left my full-time employment with CBR (still working for them part-time) to become the first official employee of Loxafamosity.

It has now been seven years since I first left the financial security of the secular work force, and for seven years God has proved Himself over and over. My needs have all been met, and God has increased my fold! Beginning this journey a bachelor, I now find myself a husband and a father. But as I look ahead and think of all that's left to do and all the obstacles that loom, I am far too fast to despair. I say that to my shame, conceding that for all the victories there have been many defeats. The vision I left for (to have a Christ-dominated life of heavenly affections) is very elusive, for the flesh still runs after so many lesser things. And how easy it is for the blessings of God to become the very idols which keep us from Him! Nevertheless, God is patient, and God is good, and His vision for my life will be realized, not because of my word, but because of His.

Through it all, my ability to stay in this fight has and continues to depend on the grace of God manifested through the generous financial gifts of people all across the country, many of whom I've never even met! But they have stepped out in faith and given me the means to serve in their stead, and for that I am eternally grateful. This website, then, exists as a gateway for all of my past and current donors, and for all the donors to come, that they may know me better and be encouraged and emboldened to give beyond what they're able to great causes throughout this very needy world. God give me and us the grace to live small so that we can give big.

I am painfully aware of how far I've yet to go, but for as long as God gives me breath, the journey will continue.