In July 2025, the Lord led me into the role of Director of Care Ministries at St. John Bible Church.
As I have prayed over this role, my heart’s desire is to walk alongside individuals, marriages, and families as they experience both the joys and hardships of life — helping them to know Christ’s nearness and encounter His faithfulness, hope, and truth through it.
In looking back on my faith journey, I feel blessed to have grown up in a Christian home to parents who had recently chosen to follow the Lord. Because of their own desire for all of us to come to know Him, many of my childhood memories are of studying His Word together every morning, attending church each week, always listening to Christian radio, and regularly talking about what it means to walk as a Christian in everyday life. From a very early age, I felt a deep desire to know God more and understand what he created and wanted for our lives. Life wasn’t always easy growing up, and during some of those hard times, I remember wanting to really believe Him and that His word would be “a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Because of this desire, I always felt like an oddball in life, in what I wanted and how I chose to do life. That is why one of my favorite seasons of life came when I went to college and met friends who wanted the same faith I did, and we were able to do Bible studies together.
It was also during college that I met my husband. Early on in our marriage, though, our faith was profoundly tested when we learned during an ultrasound that our first son had severe disabilities and that his life would be “incompatible with life.” He was later born stillborn when I was eight months pregnant with him. In that season, I wrestled deeply about who God really was. Is He really a good God? Because if He is a good God — who loves His children — how could He allow them to walk through such painful experiences?
But through that hard season of wrestling with Him, He patiently revealed more of Himself to me. I came to know more personally the “height, depth, width, and length of His love,” and I experienced that He really is “near the brokenhearted, binding up their wounds” and “works all things for our good and His glory.” From these experiences, I found myself moving from a life that lived as though I knew what was best to one of surrender to the great “I AM.” As a result, I felt my faith transition from something I knew to be true into something I personally experienced and lived.
Since then, my desire has been to know this faithful God even more and to help others experience His goodness in their own lives. While my background includes training and experience in care and counseling, what I rely on most is God’s Word, His wisdom, and the work of His Spirit in the lives of those who love Him and call upon Him.
Our family loves our church, and my husband and I are incredibly grateful that we get to raise our five daughters here — and that I get to serve in this role.
Colossians 1:9-23
Proverbs 3:5-6