Fr. Herald Joseph Brock, CFR, is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal based at St. Michael Friary in Paterson, NJ. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1994, and served in various capacities in the New York area: director of both Padre Pio and St. Anthony Shelters for Homeless Men, youth evangelization, formation, teaching, liturgy and spiritual direction. From 2001-2007 he was a missionary in Comayagua, Honduras, where he helped to establish the St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center for the poor and Casa Guadalupe Missionary Center. He later spent two and a half years on a special missionary assignment in South Sudan, where he built the House of Mercy spiritual center in Torit, Eastern Equatoria. Since 2011, he has been a full-time missionary preacher and director of Franciscan Mission Outreach, a non-profit mission support organization established by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Fr. Herald preaches throughout the United States, and supports evangelization activities and efforts to assist the poor in Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, Cameroon, Uganda, South Sudan and occasionally in other places of crisis and need, like Ukraine, Turkey and Syria.