Catholics Have Mormon Head Their Charity

1 Corinthians 16:14 “Let all your things be done with charity. ” Brad Drake figures it is something of a miracle that brought him to Catholic Community Services, the social service arm of the Catholic Church in Utah. After all, Drake is a lifelong and devout Mormon, a former bishop. “Why would someone of the LDS faith be in this position?” Drake asks. “It’s probably a miracle and I say that in my behalf.” Drake, of Layton, was hired as executive director by the CCS board of trustees last summer after a search that attracted about 30 applicants. “It was the feeling of all of us that Brad stood out head and shoulders above the others because he clearly understood our mission,” said the Rev. Monsignor Terrence Fitzgerald, vicar general for the Diocese of Salt Lake City and a member of the CCS board. “Our mission is not to proselytize or to make people Catholic, but to serve all those in need in any way we can,” Fitzgerald said. In addition to a good grasp of its mission, Drake brought something else to CCS: a lifetime of business experience capped by service in the nonprofit world. He has “the ability and skills to manage a complex agency in difficult times,” Fitzgerald said. Drake, 61, came to the nonprofit world late in his career, but social work was always in the back of his mind. A North Ogden native, Drake graduated from what was then Weber State College with a bachelor’s degree in business. His minor was in social work. He was a manufacturing Advertisement …

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