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Mary's Touch - Male Mentorship

This weekend we are replaying the Mark Matthews story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.

• Born and raised on the Canadian prairies, Mark Matthews resides in Los Angeles and works in the visual effects industry. As a research and development veteran of DreamWorks Animation his work has given more fire to explosions, fluff to hair and jiggle to bellies in everything from "Kung Fu Panda" to "Shrek Forever After". He has over 22 feature film credits, a patent and two DreamWorks Technical Achievement Awards.
• He is founder of Bibles & Brew; Catholic men's spiritual group. He's the Hollywood undercover missionary a monthly segment on Salt & Light Radio.
• Mark leverages a background in engineering physics specializing in volume rendering and liquid simulation. He developed Amorphous, an award winning volume rendering system giving look equivalence between interactive GPU previews and final CPU renders. He is currently the lead developer of Rapid, DreamWorks' proprietary FLIP fluid simulator.  
• Prior to his work at DreamWorks Animation, he coded real time rendering features for titles like John Madden Football '07 at Electronic Arts. He has extensive electrical engineering experience, having designed satellite telemetry firmware for Global Flow Inc.
• Mark's M.Sc. was obtained under the direction of Dr. Przemysław Prusinkiewicz in the Biological Modeling and Visualization research group at the University of Calgary, researching the use of finite element methods to simulate growing surfaces and diffusible morphogens. He obtained double undergraduate degrees, a B.Eng. (engineering physics) and B.Sc. (computer science), at the University of Saskatchewan.

Mary's Touch - Dr. Charles Mully

This weekend we have an amazing story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.  

• What happens when a six-year-old boy in Kenya is abandoned by his family and left to raise himself on the streets? MULLY is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale. 
• This week we will listen to Dr. Charles Mully, whose unlikely stratospheric rise to wealth and power leaves him questioning his own existence, searching for meaning in life. Against the better judgment of family and community, MULLY sets out to enrich the fate of orphaned children across Kenya. Jeopardizing his own life and the security of his family, Charles Mully risks everything and sets in motion a series of events that is nothing short of astonishing.
• MULLY - www.mullymovie.com

Mary's Touch - Rebecca Fresh

• Rebecca Frech is a devout Catholic wife, mom of nine children...two saints...seven in training. She is an avid political junkie, able debater, aspiring home-maker, amazing friend, homeschooling guru, a writing addict, public-speaker, a CrossFit coach, managing editor for The Catholic Conspiracy, regular contributor for the National Catholic Register, and an advocate for staying true to the person God created you to be.
• She shares her Catholic journey growing up, feeling left out, angry with God, and the miracles of novenas - Our Lady Undoer of Knots.
• Rebecca is the author of "Teaching In Your Tiara - A Homeschooling Book for the Rest of Us". Teaching in Your Tiara is a soup-to-nuts homeschooling book that walks you through the first years - deciding that home education is right for your family, choosing the right curriculum, understanding learning styles, not raising socially awkward kids, maintaining your own identity, and more.
• She has another book soon to be released "Can We Be Friends"; tackles the issue head on, taking a fun and honest look at friendship: why we need friends, where we find friends, and even when to let friends go.

Mary's Touch - A Knotted Life

This weekend we have a special guest on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.   

 

* Bonnie Engstrom is a cradle Catholic and stay-at-home mom. She married her dashing husband in 2006 and they now have seven children: one in Heaven and six more wandering around their house, probably eating pretzels found under the couch. Bonnie lives in central Illinois, loves the Blessed Trinity and gets excited about baking, music, film adaptations of Jane Austen books, and the Chicago Bears. She blogs at  A Knotted Life. 
* Bonnie shares her devotion to the church and Our Blessed Mother Mary.
* She is a devotion writer for Blessed Is She; co-host of the now retired Visitation Project radio show; and host of the Sheenazing Blogger Awards.

Mary's Touch - Dr. Mary Amore

his weekend we will replay Dr. Mary Amore story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program.   

 

* Dr. Mary Amore holds a Doctor of Ministry Degree and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies from Catholic Theological Union.  

* She is the author of Primary Symbols of Worship and the Call to Participation and the newly released DVD entitled Eucharist: A Journey to Transformation, Healing and Discipleship. A Cardinal Bernardin Scholar and distinguished member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, Mary is a highly sought after presenter of parish missions in the area of the Eucharist and Pope Francis Year of Mercy,  plus workshops, seminars and retreats.  

* A monthly columnist at Ministry and Liturgy Magazine, Dr. Amore also serves as the full time Executive Director of Mayslake Ministries in Downers Grove, Il.  Mary is a wife, mother and grandmother!  

* She sahres with us about her passion and devotion to our Blessed Mary.  

 

Mary's Touch - Military Story

This week we will rerun a special military story on the Mary's Touch Radio Program that listeners have requested:

• Colleen Saffron shares her story about her walk of faith, how she stays positive,  how she chooses joy over depression, and how her husband Terry was given a second chance and what it means to them.
• Colleen has been married to Terry for over 27 years and a military wife/caregiver for 15 years. Terry was wounded in 2004 in Iraq within 6 weeks of deployment, he was injured and developed PTSD.

Mary's Touch: Kaiser Johnson

This weekend we have a wonderful story on Mary's Touch Radio Program.     

• Kaiser Johnson background is in acting, and he "rediscovered his faith while earning a BFA in acting from the University of Minnesota - Duluth." He and his wife Keeley have one child. 
• Kaiser is a committed Catholic and runs the Hollywood Chesterton Society and speaks on G.K. Chesterton and other topics within the faith. He has been in TV acting and was on a premier episode of "Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge" on NBC, as well as the "Catholic Central" YouTube series through Family Theater Productions. 
• Kaiser has experience in world championship racing, which makes him a true expert in the field of exercise and fitness. His expertise is apparent throughout his book "Grit & Glory: Cross Training Your Body and Soul". He talks about building strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility and learn what it means to be physically and spiritually fit.
   

Mary's Touch with guest Megan Harrington "The Dating Project"

• Megan Harrington is a Catholic writer, producer, the ninth child of a family of eleven and a native of Missoula, Montana.
• She recently wrote and documented "The Dating Project". The movie is a documentary that follows five single people as they navigate the changing dating scene in America. The singles featured in the film include two college students, two career women (one just beginning in her career and the other in her 30s) and a man in his 40s. The film is directed by Jonathan Cipiti (visual effects supervisor for 'The Drop Box' and 'Irreplaceable'), and attempts to show a wide spectrum of ages and experiences single people have today in the dating world." There is no script. There are no actors. These are real people trying to find love and happiness in an age of swiping left or right.  
• #TheDatingProject is now available on DVD. www.thedatingprojectmovie.com/

 

Mary's Touch with guest David Walkenstein

This weekend we have an amazing and special story for this Father's Day weekend on our Mary's Touch Radio Program.     

 

• David Walkenstein, YES...Alexis father! He will be sharing his unique and profound conversion story. His baptism and conversion changed the fabric of his family and developed a stronger connection to Our Mother Mary and the sacramental life.
• David was born in Webster, Massachusetts to a Jewish father and Catholic mother and was raised Jewish. Later he met his lovely Catholic wife of 48 years. A father to two amazing women. Twenty four years into their marriage he was Baptized, received his First Holy Communion, Confirmation into Catholicism and a Sacramental Marriage. He's been a Catholic for 25 years.
• He talks about his RCAA teacher experience(s) after entering into the Church. He shares about taking your life and transforming it through Church and prayer!

   

Mary's Touch with guest Rebecca Frech

This weekend we have a wonderful story on Mary's Touch Radio Program.    

 

• Rebecca Frech is a devout Catholic wife, mom of nine children...two saints...seven in training. She is an avid political junkie, able debater, aspiring home-maker, amazing friend, homeschooling guru, a writing addict, public-speaker, a CrossFit coach, managing editor for The Catholic Conspiracy, regular contributor for the National Catholic Register, and an advocate for staying true to the person God created you to be.
• She shares her Catholic journey growing up, feeling left out, angry with God, and the miracles of novenas - Our Lady Undoer of Knots.
• Rebecca is the author of "Teaching In Your Tiara - A Homeschooling Book for the Rest of Us". Teaching in Your Tiara is a soup-to-nuts homeschooling book that walks you through the first years - deciding that home education is right for your family, choosing the right curriculum, understanding learning styles, not raising socially awkward kids, maintaining your own identity, and more.
• She has another book soon to be released "Can We Be Friends"; tackles the issue head on, taking a fun and honest look at friendship: why we need friends, where we find friends, and even when to let friends go.

Mary's Touch with guest Kaiser Johnson

• Kaiser Johnson background is in acting, and he "rediscovered his faith while earning a BFA in acting from the University of Minnesota - Duluth." He and his wife Keeley have one child. 

• Kaiser is a committed Catholic and runs the Hollywood Chesterton Society and speaks on G.K. Chesterton and other topics within the faith. He has been in TV acting and was on a premier episode of "Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge" on NBC, as well as the "Catholic Central" YouTube series through Family Theater Productions. 

• Kaiser has experience in world championship racing, which makes him a true expert in the field of exercise and fitness. His expertise is apparent throughout his book "Grit & Glory: Cross Training Your Body and Soul". He talks about building strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility and learn what it means to be physically and spiritually fit.

Mary's Touch with guest Paul George