Since I was 17 years old, I always felt a calling toward ministry. Typically, I shied away from diving into ministries for a variety of poor reasons. Seeing so many that were in ministry for what I perceived as vanity and attracted to attention, I wanted to steer clear of the bad fruit I saw. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see the good fruit around me until later in my adult life. My vocational life took a turn from corporate finance to banker after my parents were involved in a terrible accident while traveling back from a domestic mission trip in the summer of 2002. My dad became a quadriplegic, so a lot of our focus was on helping and supporting Dad’s care, and I struggled to find the peace in my walk in the Lord and in my business life.
That all changed in 2010 when my close friend, Sr Pastor, Keith Langner, invited me to join him and our Worship Pastor, Matt Evans on a trip to India. That trip made my life’s purpose super clear. After serving, training pastors, seeing firsthand the abject poverty unknown to us in the western world, and experiencing the unchanging power of the Gospel in places like Southeast Asia – I knew I was made to be part of such work as a missionary.
Subsequent years and subsequent trips to Southeast Asia continued to fuel my desire in this, while back home I stayed the course in my banking profession. In 2019, I made a decision to leave the bank to start Redmond Lending Group. I had no plan to grow RLG into an expanding company, but was seeking flexibility and freedom in my pursuit of this call to ministry, while still providing for my family. Along the way, I contacted my friend and missionary who worked in India about making RLG more than just a mortgage company. My question: "How can we support global missions with what we’re doing as mortgage specialists?" From there a connection was made with Training 2 Send, who continued the work from Southeast Asia into northern countries in Africa.
In 2023 we started to set aside capital from every loan we closed – earmarked for missions. I am just as passionate about local needs as I am about global needs. Further, I wanted our company’s culture to be manifestly invested in this cause, not just my missional connections, but any and every employee’s. If one of our employees have a particular passion in mission work, we’re seeking to support! Last year, we were able to help one of our loan officer’s churches make a trip to Honduras. We have since supported some private needs locally, along with our support in Training 2 Send, which I am personally involved with in trying to rally and network more churches, pastors and believers to become made aware of the darkness, lostness, and need in the areas we work in. So much of my time outside of RLG, is devoted to networking to more churches in helping us with this effort.
My mission is to grow Redmond Mortgage to serve our communities as a great resource for their financing and real estate needs. As a mortgage specialist and CEO, I want people to do business with us because we’re great at what we do for their needs. As the owner, I dream of how many closed transactions translates into how many lives reached in the hardest to reach areas of the world.