Sharina Porter

While at Moody, Bradley often attended The Compass Church, his home church in Naperville, Illinois. One Sunday during his sophomore year, his former youth leader, Ritch Sandford, was the featured speaker. He had moved to Utah to plant a church. “I was going to my car,” Bradley recalls, “and Ritch stopped me and said, ‘I was watching you interact with people, and I think you should consider church planting. There are a lot of areas in the country where there are shockingly few churches. I'm living in one right now.’”