Welcoming Our New Jesuit Scholastics to Thrive for Life!
Thrive for Life is excited to announce three new additions to our family of staff members! Joining us from the Ciszek Hall Jesuit Community at Fordham University are three young scholastics who will be working with us to support our ministry behind and beyond the walls over these next several months.
Born and raised in rural southwestern Vermont, Luke Lapean attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA for undergraduate work, studying History and Anthropology. He entered the Society of Jesus soon after graduating and has served as a hospital chaplain, a high school teacher, in palliative care support, and in a center for food and clothing assistance. He is currently working towards a Master's Degree in Philosophy and Society at Fordham University.
Min “Daniel” Park was born and raised in South Korea. His family migrated to the northern suburbs of Chicago in 1999, where he later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and studied World Literature. He started discerning God’s call when he felt God’s love through serving his home parish as a catechist.
Rob Lorenz joins us after spending 18 years as a National Park Ranger which took him through New Mexico, Kentucky, Maine, Utah, Washington D.C., and Oregon. Originally from North Kentucky, Rob studied Biology at Xavier University. He is excited to begin his Jesuit formation as he takes on the important challenge of answering his vocational call to the priesthood.
Our newest friends will play a crucial role in identifying and cultivating relationships with faith communities in the Bronx that are especially impacted by incarceration. In conjunction with our trained spiritual mentors, these men will help us facilitate retreats for the families and loved ones of our brothers and sisters behind the walls in these communities. As our full access to the prisons remains on hold, this ministry will prove critically important to sustaining and expanding our retreat programming.
Welcome all!
