Bro. David Kelly, OFM
Bro. David, 47 years old, is from Chippewa Falls, WI and grew up at St. Charles Borromeo Church within the Diocese of La Crosse.  He attended public grade and high school.  Something about growing up Catholic, though, always attracted him to seek the Lord, and especially consider the possibility of a religious vocation.  As a young adult he visited the Franciscan friars of the Assumption BVM Province for a Franciscan Live-In Weekend.  After some time, he eventually decided to try the Franciscan friars.  Bro. David completed his undergraduate studies in theology at Loyola University of Chicago.  He professed solemn vows as a friar minor in April 2005 at Assumption BVM Parish in Pulaski, WI.  He is currently in his final semester at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and anticipates ordination to the transitional diaconate after his graduation, preceding priesthood ordination.

Bro. Jason Welle, OFM
Bro. Jason, 30 years old, was born and reared in Albany, MN, having grown up within Seven Dolors Parish of the St. Cloud Diocese.  He attended Catholic grade school and public junior and senior high schools, but never anticipated the possibility of a religious vocation or the priesthood.  An avid athlete throughout his youth – and still a marathon runner (together with his younger brother, Scott) – Bro. Jason had been involved in football in high school and continued his interest when he entered St. Olaf College, a Lutheran institution of higher learning in his native Minnesota.  After having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in religion, he applied for and was granted a scholarship to study for a master’s degree in theology at the University of Notre Dame.  It was during this time that he began to seriously consider religious life and eventually found the Franciscan friars of the Assumption BVM Province.  Bro. Jason is completing his final year at Catholic Theological Union and eagerly looks forward to serving the Lord and his Church in pastoral ministry as a transitional deacon in preparation for the priesthood.

Bro. Galen Osby, OFM
Bro. Galen is 26 years old and a native of Howards Grove, WI (outside of Sheboygan).  He is a 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Platteville where he earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry.  He attended public grade and high schools and went to religious education classes in his youth at his home parish of St. Dominic in Sheboygan.  Bro. Galen has enjoyed sports, like football and wrestling, in high school and he began his college years on the wrestling team.  Following his graduation from the university, he joined a group of pilgrims from the Madison, WI Diocese to World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany. There he felt profoundly moved to begin to investigate a call to the priesthood and, perhaps, to religious life.  He worked for a while in environmental monitoring and shortly thereafter he worked in his field of chemistry.  In 2007 Bro. Galen requested to begin initial formation as a postulant in Milwaukee.  He is now a novice at the Inter-provincial Novitiate at San Damiano Friary in Cedar Lake, IN.