With over 5,000 international students and scholars from 130 countries at Michigan State University, URC has a strategic, providential opportunity to share the gospel with the nations who are in our midst. Reaching internationals has been a significant part of URC’s culture since the early days of its founding and is one of the ways we seek to be faithful to the great commission locally. But we are also committed to sending missionaries and workers to the nations where there is little or no access to the gospel. Both are essential elements of being faithful to the Great Commission: SENDers who advance the great commission locally, and GOers who take the gospel into all parts of the world.
Nick graduated from MSU with a civil engineering degree and worked in that field for three years. He earned a Master of Arts (MA) in Religion at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, MI before joining staff. He met his wife Emma at MSU, and they spent a year in Arizona enjoying the sunshine and the mountains before coming home to Michigan for graduate school (where Emma earned her Masters in biosystems engineering).
They have five daughters, Mia (2011), Lucia (2013), Talya (2015), Isabel (2017), and Lila (2021), and brief moments of spare time are usually filled with running, books, Pure Michigan, and coffee.
