Ever since I was a young child, I was fascinated by business and economics. I was reading T Boone Pickens, Bill Gates and Lee Iacocca as a young child to name a few. When I was in second grade my parents bought me my first stock, 10 shares of ownership in the Boston Celtics, which they paid more for the commission then for the stock. I also started delivering up to 200 newspapers a day in second grade, and by 7th grade was working 50 hours a week at a local golf course. I used these funds to not only have the best Nike basketball shoes every six months, but to build a substantial baseball card collection and to put me through college and graduate school. Being the oldest and name sake of three generations of Lutheran Ministers I enrolled at Grove City College with the thoughts of attending Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary. I worked each summer at bible camps in South Dakota and Indiana, and when I graduated in 1996, attended the Seminary in Gettysburg much like my father did 28 years before me. After an amazing three years learning about myself, the Bible and people, I left seminary. At that time, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life so I moved in with my brother. A head-hunter I was working with said that I looked like finance so I started thinking about that. My grandfather never finished the sixth grade and he and my grandmother worked extremely hard their entire lives with little to show for. I thought back about my first stock certificate and the fees that my parents paid. I knew that people are usually most passionate about their faith and money, and usually not in that order, so I thought that I would give wealth management a try. The rest has been an exciting journey helping people be better stewards of all that we have been blessed with. 