SOPHIE WILLIS

Team Lead - Arlington Campuses - sophie.willis@anyfocus.org | blog

Sophie first joined FOCUS as a freshman at UTA after seeing some signs around campus. She grew up in church, surrounded by people who loved her and God profoundly. However, it wasn’t until her time at UTA that she encountered God personally. Here, she learned to follow Jesus wholeheartedly and developed a big heart for college students. Sophie graduated with her B.S. in Biology, intending to attend veterinary school. However, God called her in a different direction! Aside from campus ministry, Sophie loves doing pottery, being outside, and laughing with anyone about anything.

GRAHAM SPENCER

Assistant Director - graham.spencer@anyfocus.org | blog

Graham first got involved with FOCUS in 2016 at Collin College. He caught a vision for what God was doing on campus and has planned on doing the FOCUS Apprenticeship since 2017. While studying Print Making at the UNT, he grew a deeper understanding of art, his fellow art students, and his role in the kingdom. He loves meeting new people, asking deep and weird questions to understand them better, and living life alongside them. He also loves rock climbing, his hilarious wife, Emily, and creating out-there conceptual art pieces. He once learned how to make, walk on, and teach 20 other friends how to use stilts for a self proclaimed holiday called, “Community Stilt Day”. It was a good day.

AUSTIN GAGE

Campus Missionary - austin@anyfocus.org | blog

Austin graduated from the University of North Texas in 2014. He loves movies, disc golf, and reading all sorts of books. But his greatest passion is to make disciples of Jesus. Austin seeks to share the love of God with every person that he interacts with and he couldn't be more excited about his opportunity to do this on the college campus.

BAILEY CRAWFORD

Campus Missionary - bailey.crawford@anyfocus.org | blog

Bailey grew up in many places before finally settling in Plano. She received her Associates Degree in Elementary Education from Collin College (go Cougs), and later transferred to Texas Woman’s University to study Child Development. Bailey showed up to Collin searching for friendship, and FOCUS was there and ready to provide. Now she joins our team at UT Arlington with the hopes offering that same meaningful friendship to others. When she isn’t meeting with students, she is on the hunt for the perfect iced coffee, reading different memoirs, or trying and rating Crumbl Cookie flavors with her roommates.

JULIANNE BENGE

Campus Missionary - julianne.benge@anyfocus.org | blog

Hi, I’m Juli! I graduated from UTA in 2023 with my bachelor’s in nursing, and during my time there I discovered how deeply Jesus loves me. That truth changed everything, and now I feel called to help students at UTA come to know Him too. I care deeply about people and love walking alongside them in both the joyful and hard parts of life. Coffee is usually in my hand, and joy is something I hope to share wherever I go.

JOSHUA KRAUSE

Campus Missionary- joshua.krause@anyfocus.org | blog

Joshua first began attending FOCUS during his Junior year at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was not a Christian at the time, but could immediately sense the love and friendship that the community had. He gave his life to Christ the summer between his undergraduate degree and his masters degree, both in Social Work. FOCUS was the perfect place for him to pursue and learn more about Jesus. FOCUS is a place where he continued to grow in his faith and create roots. He found that he had never been more passionate or dedicated about anything or anyone than God, and realized that he would love to have the chance of pursuing college Ministry!

LEO REYES

Campus Missionary- leo.reyes@anyfocus.org | blog

Leo first joined FOCUS in the fall of 2022 as a sophomore at UNT! It was at the following FOCUS Winter Retreat where God met him and eventually led him to a goal of sharing Jesus and serving the same community for future generations of college students. Try to figure out the 2 truths and 1 lie about Leo: He’s loosely related to a Nobel Prize winner, he was kicked by a horse when he was 9, he went on a mission trip to Florida one summer where he worked at Universal Studious to share Jesus in a Harry Potter uniform.

SARAH PIEPENBURG

Campus Missionary Apprentice - sarah.piepenburg@anyfocus.org | blog

Texas native but Colorado raised, Sarah calls both Texas and the Rocky Mountains home. After coming back to Dallas, Sarah quickly found FOCUS in the summer of 2022 and has been hooked on campus ministry & UTA ever since. While she studied Public Health, she is far more passionate about sharing the love of Jesus with college students, so being a campus pastor is a dream come true. A perfect day for her would be spent outside by a lake in the mountains surrounded by good friends and laughing way too loud. Fun Fact: Sarah once tumbled down a volcano in Nicaragua and has an awesome video to prove it.