I grew up in North Texas, but I bleed Oklahoma crimson. My entire family is from Oklahoma, and I spent many childhood weekends and summer vacations visiting family there. I didn’t spend much time in church as a kid. My family was Catholic, but we only attended church on Easter and Christmas. As a high schooler, I occasionally visited a tiny Baptist church down the road, but that was the extent of my exposure to God. 

In my teenage years, I went through a tough relationship and sought counseling from a Christian therapist. That is really my first memory of trusting in the Lord and learning to walk by faith and not by sight. I discovered so much about Jesus from that experience, and my therapist helped me start building a Christian foundation that I never knew I needed. With that foundation in place, I found a passion for pouring into women and walking with them through difficult seasons of life. I have had the opportunity to help women get out of toxic relationships, change destructive patterns in their lives, and create healthy habits. 

Although I had a solid relationship with God, it was not until I married my husband, Tony, gained two bonus babies, and having our first child together, that I felt a pull to find a church for our family. We had always heard people talking about a “home church,” but we never had that experience. We began to search, and six years later we finally found our church home. I am so thankful that we persevered in our pursuit, because our home church has changed our lives. It has grown and stretched us in ways we never thought possible, it has strengthened our marriage, and it has enabled us to raise children with a firm foundation. 

Most days you can find me spending time with our beautiful family of six. We have one son and three daughters – all with very busy schedules! When our weekends are not full of kid’s sports, we enjoy fishing, spending time with friends, vacationing to the beach or mountains, and watching movies on the couch.