Jerome Cabeen
Jerome Cabeen (born July 18, 1967) is an author, speaker, social justice advocate and missionary originally from Houston, Texas, in the United States. He is the author of the Amazon.com bestseller, Memoirs of a Reluctant Servant – Two Years of Triumph and Sorrow in Liberia, Africa. The book reached #1 on the Amazon.com Bestseller List in the Coastal West Africa category. Cabeen lived in Honduras in Central America from 2004 to 2008 and Liberia in West Africa from 2008 to 2010, volunteering as a missionary for Franciscan Works, a Catholic missionary organization based in Chicago. Currently he resides in Beaumont, Texas, and works for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont. He is a practicing Catholic and travels around the United States giving talks and lectures on Liberia, Honduras, social justice teachings and missionary work. Biography Cabeen was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, in 1990 with a degree in fine arts. He taught art and was a high school and AAU basketball coach in and around Houston for twelve years. Missionary/aid work In 2004 Cabeen left the United States to begin missionary work in Honduras. While there he met his