Patchwork Heart Radio is a podcast initiative of Patchwork Heart Ministry that is dedicated to sewing hope into broken hearts. We offer a variety of audio and video podcasts to uplift you no matter where you are along your journey of faith.
President
Bill is the Founder of Patchwork Heart Ministry, a non-profit [501(c)3] Catholic Youth, and Young Adult ministry. He inspires, engages, and challenges young people to live their faith boldly by example, through storytelling and media initiatives.
Bill has nearly a decade of ministry experience. In addition to founding Patchwork Heart Ministry in the spring of 2012, Bill served as the Director of Youth Ministry at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Lake Geneva, WI directing nine area-wide Confirmation Retreats, initiated an annual parish trip to the Steubenville Youth Conference which achieved a 400% year-over-year attendance increase; and authored, produced and directed “Contemporary Living Stations of the Cross” an annual Lenten stage drama during his seven-year tenure. He was a member of the Conventual Franciscan resident-discernment volunteer program from February 2011 until April 2012 at Marytown, the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
His greatest strengths are his compassion, tenacity, and creativity. He empowers and equips others to share their faith journey and serves as a leader and innovator in media initiatives to spread the Gospel. Bill hosts and produces Young Catholics Respond, a weekly podcast, and radio show that is part of the Patchwork Heart, Breadbox Media, Light of Life, and Evangelism Radio networks. Bill also co-hosts and produces the Sewing Hope Podcast with his friend Anne DeSantis on Patchwork Heart Radio. In addition, Bill is the producer of the weekly program, the Bear Woznick Adventure on EWTN Radio Network, and is …
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Podcast Host
Anne DeSantis is the Director of the St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation for Freedom, Family, and Faith. The foundation offers pastoral accompaniment for families in crisis founded by the Mercedarian Religious Order.
She is a Catholic wife, mother, and author, and podcaster. She has a Master's in Theology from Saint Joseph's College of Maine and graduated in 2021. Prior to her work with the foundation, she was a 20-year homeschooling mother to her two daughters, now adults. She and her husband Angelo have been married since 1989.
As a hobby, she is a 55+ model and actress from the Greater Philadelphia area. Learn about Anne at AnneDeSantis.com. For more information about the St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation, go to Nonnatus.org
