With his strong Irish Catholic upbringing Brendan was taught not to question his church or his God. However, after the death of his mother in a bomb blast  in 1974, he watched intently as Catholics and Protestants brutally murdered each other in the name of God. After losing several friends to "the cause", he determined that he could no longer embrace a God who allowed such atrocities. At the age of sixteen he left his small hometown of Monaghan and arrived in London, England.

     While in London Brendan became heavily involved with alcohol and the illicit drugs of his time. He held no social, ethical, or religious values and was completely deceived by the illusions of worldly pleasures. After four years of self abuse, the God that Brendan had forsaken, sent him an angel. Less than six months later he married that angel.

     Brendan and his wife Carol honeymooned in Kissimmee, Florida. They enjoyed it so much that they decided to remain. Brendan’s alcohol and drug use continued and one night while driving home heavily intoxicated, he wrecked his car. He later discovered that he attempted to round a double thirty-five mile per hour corner at a speed in excess of ninety miles per hour. He flipped his car and it landed upside down on the road dragging for more than one hundred feet. The metal gas cap on his old Duster was worn to a thin sheet and according to the Highway Patrol the car should have exploded. When Brendan was almost electrocuted two weeks later he determined it was time to re-examine the God of his childhood.

     Five years and a myriad of churches later Brendan and Carol were blessed with a son. Unimpressed with churches he had visited Brendan sought baptism for his infant son in the Catholic Church. After completing a series of classes in preparation for their son’s baptism, Brendan and Carol were told that the individuals they chose as god-parents were not acceptable because neither were Catholic. Disgusted, they left the church with no intention of returning to any church ever again. When Brendan called the god-parents to inform them that there would be no baptism, they invited him the Kissimmee Seventh-day Adventist Church, a church they had attended for the first time the previous week. He reluctantly agreed to go, more from curiosity, as he had never heard of this church before. One year an over a million questions later Brendan and Carol were baptized into the Worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church.

     Almost immediately Brendan felt the call to gospel ministry. He served for approximately one year as a volunteer Chaplain in the Florida Hospital Pastoral Care Program in Orlando. During this period he worked as a financial controller with Sheraton and later as Director of Operations with a local transportation company. In the next four years the Lord opened and closed many doors in Brendan’s life. In 1995 he resigned from the secular workplace and entered into full time ministry. He spent time in South Dakota under the direction of Louis Torres and studied the ministry of evangelism. Upon his return to Florida, Brendan promptly conducted an evangelistic crusade and immediately caught the evangelism bug. He has since conducted a number of crusades. Brendan and Carol joined the Florida Conference family in 1997. They pastored in Plymouth-Sorrento and later acquired a second church in DeBary. In 2002 the Lord opened yet another door and they are currently serving in the Lake City Seventh-day Adventist Church. God has blessed Brendan and Carol, not only with two beautiful children, a son Matthew, and a daughter Erin, but with many undeserved opportunities to minister for Him. The God that Brendan had forsaken as a teen remained faithful to him throughout his journey. God is truly an awesome God.