Hi, I’m Brad. I live in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with my wife of 18 years Alix. I got an online ordination in 2010 and didn’t think much about it until I was asked in May 2025 to officiate at my wife’s brother’s wedding. It stirred something inside me as I began to research different weddings and beliefs, and I realized I wanted to expand my knowledge and understanding of God, Jesus, the Bible and ministry. I’m looking forward to learning all I can and using it to benefit my fellow man.

From the age of 13 until 33, I had no need for God or Jesus. I just wanted to have fun, do whatever felt good, be as rebellious as possible without going to jail (although I did manage to see the inside of a jail a couple times). Growing up where there was only church or no church, I had no relationship with the Lord. I sinned. I got into alcohol and drugs. When I joined the Coast Guard at the age of 20, everywhere I went the first thing I did was find the closest EM club or bar and gravitate towards the 'party crowd'. It's where I found companionship, although it was never there the next morning. I was never proud of anything I did, other than play my guitar and sing.

I had a wife and three daughters when I felt the need to get back to church, and I went back to the only one I knew-the LDS church. It was familiar, it was my heritage, it was home. I had known for years about the oddities but accepted them because it was 'our church'. I felt looking anywhere else would be an insult to my family. And so there I stayed for the next 30 years, until I was visited by a white lion who brought me out of the fog of indoctrination and into the true light of Christ.

I have seen others on here who go to great lengths to slam the LDS church. I feel if you want to know why people leave the church, the truth is out there to be found. I no longer practice the faith I was raised in but I don't expend my efforts throwing shade on what someone else believes. I can tell you from a lifetime of experience that it isn't easy breaking out of the mold, but it can be done when you stop drinking the Kool-Aid. My calling is to help those who seek help, not to drag other religions through the mud. Cult or not, that's not my choice to make.

I am now an ordained chaplain, police chaplain, veterans' chaplain, disaster response & community crisis chaplain, hospital chaplain. I am in the process of starting a Soul Center for veterans and first responders; it will be The Watchman Soul Center. I'm hoping to be able to reach out to others in Utah County who are seeking something outside of organized religion. Having served in the military for 20 years, and spent time as a reserve deputy sheriff, reserve police sergeant, firefighter and EMT, I have a little insight into the veteran and first responder soul.

I'm looking forward to continuing my studies with CLI/CLA and furthering my knowledge of Jesus. And if I am able to help one soul find direction in this life it will all be worth it.