Last updated June 17, 2024
EDUCATION
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
Doctor of Education, Higher Education, 2021
Master of Arts, Biblical Counseling, 2018
University of the Philippines (UP), Baguio, Philippines
Bachelor of Arts, Social Anthropology and Political Science, 2014
CERTIFICATIONS
National Council for Mental Wellbeing,
Mental Health First Aid, Dec. 2022
Expires: Dec. 2025
Relevant skills: Identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adults
MINISTRY / WORK EXPERIENCE
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
2019-2021, 2023-present | Louisville, Kentucky
Administrative Assistant to Student Life Office and Women’s Ministry Coordinator
- As a Women’s Ministry Coordinator, I plan events for women. Additionally, I work with a team of volunteers to help women of Southern Seminary and Boyce feel welcome.
- As an Administrative Assistant to Student Life, I am responsible for bookkeeping and assisting the Dean of Students and the Associate Director of Student Life.
- I assist the leaders of Student Organizations in event planning and serving their members.
Practical Shepherding
2022-present | Louisville, Kentucky
Counselor
- I provide virtual counseling for pastors’ wives and pastors’ kids.
Women’s Ministry Assistant
- I facilitate a support group for pastors’ wives over Zoom.
Christian Psychology Institute
Oct. 2022-present | Louisville, Kentucky
Coordinator
- I assist the director in preparing the standards for Christian Psychologists.
- I plan and execute events for local pastors, therapists, and lay people who are interested in Christian Psychology.
Graceland Baptist Church
Oct. 2020-Aug. 2023 | New Albany, Indiana
Soul Care Director
- I provide individual and marital counseling to the members of the church.
- I designed a curriculum for training lay people who are called to provide Soul Care.
Sojourn Community Church, East Campus
2018-2020 | Louisville, Kentucky
Lay Counselor
- As a lay counselor at Sojourn, I counseled people from different backgrounds and different level of Christian maturity.
- I also counseled other lay counselors who needed emotional and professional support as they were meeting with their counselees.
Small Group Facilitator
- Besides lectures, the lay counseling training curriculum includes an hour of group time where participants are encouraged to apply the skills presented in the lecture. I served as a small group facilitator for 3 semesters.
Lay Counselor Trainer
- I taught several modules and topics during the lay counseling training.
Grace Baptist Church
May 2017-August 2017 | Somerset, Kentucky
Ministry Intern
- I worked as a ministry assistant for Dr. Todd Meadows and Dr. Scott Gilbert. This entails reviewing the curriculum used for by the youth ministry leaders.
Discipleship/Mentor
- I mentored college-age girls throughout the summer.
Immanuel Baptist Church
January 2016-August 2016 | Louisville, Kentucky
Baptist Campus Ministry Intern
- I worked as a campus intern to the University of Louisville BCM, specifically to international students. I shared the gospel with international students through ESL small groups.
- I joined a Bible study lead by my co-interns and provided music for congregational singing.
- Attended as a small group facilitator and emcee during International Students Conferences lead by the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
Lovestruck Movement
2014-2015 | Manila, Philippines
Lovestruck Movement is a non-profit organization that aims to provide the youth, both church and unchurched, with the biblical sex education. Through conferences, seminars and small group discussion, Filipino youth were encouraged to pursue biblical purity and sexual abstinence.
Resource Speaker
- I conducted biblical sex education seminars in churches and public schools.
- I equipped pastors and youth leaders how to engage the young people with biblical principles and convictions on sexuality.
Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU)
2013-2015 | Baguio, Philippines
Volunteer Staff 2015 | Ilocos Norte, Philippines
- I shared the Gospel, discipled and trained student leaders in 5 campuses across the province. There was no existing CRU presence prior to my arrival.
Campus Leader 2013-2015 | Baguio, Philippines
- As a campus leader, I conducted Prayer Times, mentored student leaders, and led my own discipleship groups
- I taught several discipleship classes during training conferences.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
- Assessing Epistemological Development among Southeast Asian Graduate Students at Evangelical Seminaries (Doctoral Dissertation) 2021 | Louisville, KY
- Pinoy Youth Ministry Volunteer Tips—Kung Wala Ka Nang Malapitan: Effective Youth Counseling Release Date: TBA
- The Ilokanang Baog: Lived Experiences of Infertile Ilokano Women in Ilocos Norte (Undergraduate Thesis) 2014 | Baguio City, Philippines
LECTURES AND CLASSES
- Theology of Pastoral Counseling present | The Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary
- How People Change 2021-present | Foundations for Christian Leadership (IGSL) Manila, Philippines
- How to Talk about Difficult Topics the Jesus Way (Break-out session) 2022 | Southern Baptist Convention Indiana, Women’s Conference
- Epistemological Development and Intercultural Dynamics: Implications for American Educators 2022 | The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
PAPER PRESENTATON
- Assessing Epistemological Development among Southeast Asian Graduate Students at Evangelical Seminaries 2021 | Society of Professors and Christian Education, Dallas, Texas
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Biblical Counseling
- Christian Psychology
- Soul Care
- Epistemological Development
- Cross-cultural Education
- Christian Education
- Spiritual Formation and Discipleship
- Women’s Ministry