Chad Coates

Year: Grad Student
Major: Accounting

Tell me a little bit about how you got involved at SLC?
I am a covert this past Easter but Fr. Luke Doyle connected me with Fr. Mitchel since he was at my home parish at St. Michael the Archangel.

Since you’re a convert, you have a different story than most students. What has that experience been like having your conversion take place here?
So it took until my fourth year to find God and convert. I see my time at KU as always searching for God. I was a member of a fraternity, I searched there but it wasn’t a fill to that void. So I really found God and the truth through literature. I took a business class that really helped me discover that truth.

What is some advice that you would give new students or transfer students?
Get involved! You are at KU for an education but I used to get caught up in good grades and getting my work done that I would forget about other things that were available to me. I think God works in whispers and maybe that whisper is in the form of coming to a social. Stay in tune with that and don’t block out those invites. God will make time for you to get your work done so don’t stress about it.

How will you take everything you’ve learned at St. Lawrence and carry it into your post-college life?
I am still figuring out what is next. I plan to go to Chicago and work in account there. There is a stigma to accounting that the work isn’t great. I feel like if I could be a vessel for Christ in my work that it would be fantastic. I am not sure what that will look like but wherever that is my plan is to be on a mission. I just pray and hope that God’s will be done through me!

What else would you want people to know about your time at SLC?
Thank you for your contributions, I got a look at what it looks like at Winefest. I understand how much money it takes to run a place like this and I want to thank you. Without you, we wouldn’t have what we have here. We are thankful for your prayers and want you to know that we are praying for you as well.