Who am I? This is such a hard question to answer in an unbiased fashion, so I have decided not to. I have chosen to allow my roomate and good friend Marshall Jaquish the chance to brag/dis me. Enjoy!

“We’re all works in progress.  For many (myself included), the progress is elusive primarily because we are content with who we are and where we’re at.  For those who have known Christian, his behavior in all aspects of life (with perhaps class attendance the sole exclusion) has been overwhelmingly antithetical to this mindset. 

I could speak to how Christian’s youth and early adulthood have affected him and made him into the person that he is, but it would paint a picture of him in which he is overdressed.  Instead, Christian’s character can be more authentically descibed by relating how he was unaffected by his past.  Christian was born into the wealthiest, most prominent famly of his city.  You wouldn’t know it by his behavior.  Excepting the generous manner in which he treats his friends and his borderline compulsive book purchasing, he could be described as thrifty. 

The same could be said for his athletic past.  A star on the youth, high-school, and collegiate level, he never developed a star’s ego.  To the contrary, on many occasions I heard his teammates describe him as the hardest worker on the football team.  His achievements are good cause for arrogance (not that one needs good cause to be arrogant,) but he has retained his humility.   After seeing some of the things he’s done on the football field, I think truthfully describing him as “meek” is outside of the realm of possibility, but it would be fair to label him as unassuming and even a little shy. 

Now a recent graduate of UCLA, (Go Bruins!) Christian is chaneling the devotion he had for Football and School (well, mostly Football) into a different area.  Since graduating, he has pursued God through his travels to impovershed areas of the world.  His unassuming nature is again revealing itself, but now in his writings of his travels and the things he’s learned from them. 

Christian, like all of us, is a work in progress.  It’s difficult to predict exactly where in life he’s progressing to, but there is no doubt that he’s spending himself in the effort.” – Marshall M. Jaquish