Max Crean is our new Director of Religious Education and Youth Ministry at St. Joseph. Max was born and raised on Long Island, New York and from a strong Catholic upbringing. In high school, he began to come into his own personal relationship with Christ, after meeting kids his own age who were on fire with their faith. He rigorously studied sacred theology and theatre and married his wife, Dawn, out of college, and they spent the last two years living in the country of Austria where their daughter Ava was born. You can ask Max if those hills are really alive with the sound of music, or about some of his favorite topics to get to know him better: Star Trek (the original series), Shakespeare, NY bagels, the lives of the saints, or his family.