Pepper Martin and his family are parishioners at St. Mark in Huntersville, NC. He is a Fraternus Captain, Frat night officer, and Ranch Co-Officer. He left a more lucrative career in the Hotel industry to have more time with his family. He has been a math teacher for 17 years in public schools and his wife has been teaching kindergarten for 18 years. He and his wife Kelly grew up cradle Catholics and know the importance of being involved as a youth to keep the faith as an adult. As a youth, Pepper was moved to be more involved at church after taking trips to the Vatican where he had an audience with Saint Pope John Paul II, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Croatia, Morocco, Australia and several other places with his parents where he gained a perspective of the world and GOD. They have four children: Owen(17), Soren(13), Holden(10), and Grace(4). Pepper has the privilege to have all three of his boys coming to Fraternus this year. When Owen, his senior in high school was in 7th grade, Pepper heard an announcement after mass explaining what Fraternus was and that they needed some men to become involved to help get it up and running. The rest is history. Pepper says, “there is no other place in the world that I need to spend my time right now than with my boys in Fraternus, growing our faith in Christ.”