I love stories. I have come to love the story God is writing in the world. I love hearing the stories of others and engaging them to understand how they intersect with the wildest of all stories, God’s story of redemption.

The story of my life took some very early twists and turns which led to my adoption at age 4 into a ministry family.

I became infected with a love of ministry and intrigued by the transformational process into which Jesus invites every person. As the oldest of nine, I loved kids and was originally drawn to children’s ministry. I taught at a Christian school and worked at and directed summer camps both in the United States and overseas. When my husband and I transferred from Florida to Pennsylvania, I shifted to women’s ministry where I served for 10 years.

The mystery of the transformational process for my own life and others’ lives still mystified, intrigued and often eluded me. As I asked God to teach me even more deeply how growth and transformation happen in the heart, he led me into the field of counseling.  I pursued a master’s in counseling at Lancaster Bible College and became a licensed professional counselor. Soon I was invited into my own counseling process. And I experienced significant healing and noticeable transformation in deeply broken places of who I was and how I related to God, others and life.

Now I am passionate about inviting others to engage their own stories of brokenness. I want to gently help untie the knots that have kept them invisibly bound to an inability to love well.

Since 2014, I also have had the privilege of joining a group of friends who do this work in many regions around the world.  Together we now get to facilitate a process called the Deep Community Experience.  Deep Community is a four-phase experience that takes leaders and their communities toward the core of who God has designed them to be, resulting in grace-filled kingdom impact.

I hardly believe the work we get to do.

And what is it that I get to do, you ask?  I get on a plane and travel with a group of like-hearted warriors to battle for, retrieve, restore, encourage, enliven and quicken long-lost regions of these strong leaders’ hearts so they have access to more of their hearts than when we came.

How do we do it? We speak, we teach, we lead groups and we engage their stories one-on-one through a four-phased process. But what really happens is much harder to describe. It’s a mystery really. And we are astounded each time we observe what God does both in us and in those with whom we work.

I would love for you to join me in the mystery.