Ben was born in Denver on a beautiful fall morning, September 28, 1979 by C-section after a hasty ambulance ride from Lakewood to downtown Denver. His older brothers, Tom and Adam, were 16 and 11 years old. His father, Steven, was a police officer and his mother, Jackie, was an accountant both working for the State of Colorado.

Ben attended Hutchinson and Devinney Elementary Schools, Dunstan Middle School, Westland Christian Academy, Green Mountain High School, and Red Rocks Community College.

He accompanied his family on camping trips and enjoyed swimming at a young age. Soon he was playing soccer, softball, basketball, and was involved in Boy Scouts and church activities. In middle school Ben dropped out of Boy Scouts in order to have more time for the church youth group. As he drew near to the Lord, he determined that he would like to someday be a youth pastor. At 15 he raised his own funding to go on a mission trip to Mendenhall, Mississippi to repair a leaking roof for a person in need. This was a character-building experience that he never forgot.

Ben played soccer for both Lakewood and Columbine Soccer Associations. He played fullback and then goalkeeper for a number of years. His team took the championship several years. When his coach stepped down from coaching, Ben spent a great deal of time and effort trying to rally the other guys to keep their team together, but it was not to be.

By the 11th grade he was experiencing some coordination problems and mini-seizures. Early EEG and MRI tests showed a lesion on the left side of his brain directly on the motor control center. Because of its location it was considered too risky to perform a biopsy at that time. The consensus was to wait and watch. Periodic MRI tests were scheduled, but suddenly in November, 2000 the "lesion" was a cancerous and growing tumor. The diagnosis was Glioma Blastoma Multiforme Stage 4. (GBM4) Now that the tumor was growing rapidly and was lethal, the CU Medical Center Tumor Board of Review determined that the only possible option was High Dose Chemo and High Dose Radiation with a 2% chance of success. Ben bravely chose that option hoping to buy a little more time, if not a cure.

During this time, he met and married Sarah Rosenbaum and became the father of Noah and Gabriella. Things got off to a rough start when Noah required two open-heart surgeries as a newborn. Ben was a nurturing and caring dad and enjoyed the children.

Ben worked at Iron Age footwear as a warehouse manager and later as the office manager, and then worked as a Customer Rep supervisor for Levi products. In the spring of 2000 he went to work at Nextel Communications and quickly worked his way up. He was in the Customer Care division performing technical support. He loved his job and the people there and routinely earned performance bonuses.

When the cancer sidelined him in the winter of 2001, he pushed to return to work in August, but had to go back on leave. Undaunted, he re-enrolled at Red Rocks Community College instead.

During the summer of 2001 when the cancer was in remission, he became part of the Youth Ministry Team at Bear Creek Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Lakewood, Colorado) working with the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. He was able to convey his faith to the young people in a way that they could understand.

Sadly the cancer did not remain in remission, and Ben went to be in the Lord's presence on October 1, 2001 at the age of twenty-two.