I am a scholar practitioner with two decades worth of missional experience working at the intersection of biblical theology and children-at-risk studies in impoverished areas from within the academy, the foster system, public school environments, the non-profit sector, and the church. My specialty areas include mission to, for, and with children-at-risk, child theology, trauma studies, ecclesiology, peace and reconciliation studies, and Paul’s letters, particularly Galatians and Philemon. Throughout my work, my primary thesis is that when healthy churches wrap-around children-at-risk relationally just as engaged family members might, children experience the nurture of supportive relationships that can help those children move towards a life of wholeness and abundance.