THE WALK

Jason Murphy, our founder, came from a difficult childhood, having divorced parents and being exposed to abuse. He was raised a cradle Catholic, but practicing his faith wasn’t a priority. This difficult upbringing led to him abusing drugs and alcohol with an addiction to pornography. He had no direction or focus in his life since he lacked good role models or faith, which led him into deep depression and contemplating suicide.

A friend of his convinced him not to take his life. 

Jason’s friend saw a crucifix hanging on his wall one day, which his devoted grandmother had gifted him. He assumed Jason was Catholic, so he invited him to return to Mass after not practicing his faith for years. That Sunday changed his life forever. He experienced deep reverence, tradition, and beauty in that Mass and began attending each week.

A sincere conversion of life and profound desire to learn more about Christ began.
One he had a taste of this new way of living, this better way, there was no looking back. His reversion back to the Catholic faith included time spent in a traditional brothers' novitiate and Catholic seminary where the foundation of his Faith was built. This new way of life led him on a path of vocational discernment for several years where he was ultimately called to marriage, family life and a successful real estate development career.

Men's leadership and ministry
Jason became involved with the Knights of Columbus in 2004 and served three terms as Grand Knight and helped to establish the Catholic Men's Conference of the Carolinas in 2010. This new path led to his starting a weekly men's radio show called 'The Obligation' on a local Catholic radio network for three years which focused on catholic masculinity, reversion and conversion stories, and men's leadership.  Although he stayed busy with these works, there was still a longing he felt by God calling him to go deeper since busy does not always mean best.

One day, he realized how lazy he had become.
Although life has been good to him, he felt that he still wasn’t living up to his God-given potential. Jason never considering himself a morning person when it came to prayer or sacrifice but was always ready to get up early for fishing or other fun.   One day while heading out on a fishing trip he received a notification that someone was going live on social media at 5:30am. It was The Sons of Mary Rosary Apostolate, inviting other men to pray the rosary with them.  After experiencing praying with men all around the world in this early morning sacrifice, he felt a new sense of hope to do something more purposeful with his life again and to break free from complacency and live more for God.

And that is when he got "the call."

He felt a tug that God wanted more from him. At that point, he asked, “What do you want me to do, Lord?” After attending a Christian-based men’s boot camp event, he started to wonder if there was something like this for Catholic men. He found nothing. He was open to God’s will to show him what to do about this, and the rest is history.

"And He said to all: If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."- Luke 9:23