Our Story | Faith, Art & Caricature at Reach One

Everyone has a story.
We live our lives inside those stories.

Some chapters are joyful. Some are difficult. Some make perfect sense only after many years have passed. Looking back, we can often see that God was quietly writing a much bigger story than the one we thought we were living at the time.

This is our story—at least, a summary of it. And we're sticking to it.

Meet E.B. and Opa

We (Beth and Frank) are the people behind Reach One Media.

First and foremost, we are a family. We get those silly, family names (E.B and Opa) from decades of grandparenting. That’s who we’ve become, and we’re now comfortable using those names in every day life.

We've been married for more than fifty years and have been blessed with two wonderful sons, along with their wives who became the daughters we never had. Along the way, God also gave us six amazing grandchildren, one great-grandson, and—if family history is any indication—there may be a few more chapters still to come.

Like many families, we've experienced seasons of challenge, adventure, sacrifice, laughter, and grace. Through it all, we've learned that life's greatest blessings are rarely found in things. They're found in people.

A Life of Service

For more than twenty-five years, military life shaped our family.

Together, we survived deployments, relocations, changing assignments, and all the unexpected twists that come with serving our country. The Marine Corps and the Army helped sharpen our character, strengthen our faith, and teach us lessons about perseverance, leadership, and service that continue to guide us today.

Those years taught us something important: life isn't a straight line—it's more like a journey.

And sometimes the best views appear only after a few wrong turns, unexpected detours, and a lot of prayer.

Helping Others Find Their Way

While military service formed one chapter of our lives, helping people find meaningful work became another.

E.B. spent more than fifty years serving in workforce and career development. After retiring from the military, Opa joined her in that mission, earning a Ph.D. in career counseling and workforce development.

Together, we had the privilege of teaching and mentoring more than 10,000 workforce and career development professionals from around the world as they earned professional credentials and learned how to help others build better lives through meaningful work.

Looking back, we realize that much of our career was really about hope.

Helping people discover their gifts.

Helping them see possibilities.

Helping them move forward when life seemed stuck.

The Creative Guy Who Couldn't Help Himself

Throughout all those years, Opa kept drawing cartoons.

He couldn't help himself.

While other people took notes, he sketched.

While others attended meetings, he doodled.

While others prepared presentations, he wondered if the presentation might be improved with a cartoon.

Fortunately, many people agreed.

Those cartoons and caricatures eventually became part of our professional work and helped create a unique niche in workforce and career development. Humor has a remarkable way of opening doors, lowering defenses, and helping people see familiar things from a new perspective.

That's still true today.

Drawn Closer

As the years passed, something else happened.

We were drawn closer and closer to Jesus Christ and His Church.

Faith was never simply another chapter added to the story. It became the thread that connected all the chapters together.

When our professional careers came to a close, the next step felt natural.

We turned our attention toward sharing the faith that had sustained us through every season of life.

Not through hype.

Not through elaborate performances.

Not through clever marketing.

Just one person at a time.

One conversation at a time.

One soul at a time.

That's why we call this ministry Reach One.

Because if we reach one person today, and one person tomorrow, and one person the day after that, eventually God does something extraordinary with ordinary efforts.

The Pauline Spirit

Our ministry is deeply influenced by the Pauline spirit (charism)—the same missionary spirit that inspired the Apostle St. Paul.

Paul used every available road, ship, letter, conversation, and opportunity to share the Gospel.

We try to do the same.

Today, those roads might be websites, social media, caricatures, cartoons, books, photographs, Saltwater Color paintings, pilgrimages, videos, reels, memes, conversations over coffee, or a chance encounter with a stranger (our favorite kind).

The tools change.

The mission doesn't.

Spirit doesn't die.

The Pauline spirit remains alive wherever people use communication, creativity, and media to bring others closer to Christ.

Rolling Prayer and One-Day Pilgrimages

We are pilgrims at heart.

You'll often find us traveling back roads, visiting churches, shrines, and small towns, discovering places where faith and everyday life intersect.

As we travel, we pray.

We call it "rolling prayer."

Sometimes the destination is important.

Sometimes the journey is the destination.

Either way, we keep moving, praying, listening, and looking for the fingerprints of God along the road.

Those experiences eventually became our One-Day Pilgrimages—a reminder that you don't have to cross an ocean to encounter God. Sometimes holiness is waiting just around the next bend in the road.

What You'll Find Here

Reach One Media is a collection of many things:

Faith.

Humor.

Stories.

Cartoons.

Photography.

Pilgrimages.

Encouragement.

And an ongoing effort to help people discover God's presence in ordinary life.

We're not experts on everything.

We're simply fellow travelers.

We've made mistakes, taken wrong turns, laughed at ourselves more than a few times, and learned that God's grace is usually much larger than our plans.

Our Story

Thanks for Visiting

Whether you arrived here looking for a cartoon, a story, a pilgrimage, a photograph, a moment of encouragement, or simply by accident, we're glad you're here.

We hope something you find here will make you smile, think, pray, laugh, or perhaps see God's hand a little more clearly in your own story.

Because everyone has a story.

This is ours.

And we're sticking to it.

Professional Memberships

We are members of the International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) and the Catholic Media Association (CMA).