Title: STUDENT MINISTRY EVENT COORDINATOR
Birthday/Age: May 25, 1985 (22)
Height: The taller you are the more you can eat
Hair Color: Brown-ish
Eye Color: Blue
Favorite Food: This is too hard…Probably gummy lifesavers
Favorite Worship Song: "Mighty to Save" by Hillsong and "Enough" by Barlowgirl
Favorite Bible Verse(s):
This is hard… the book of Psalm is definitely my favorite but if I had to choose some verses right now they would probably be Psalm 73:23-28 and Isaiah 55:8-11, but that changes weekly depending on what I am going through at the time.
Educational Background:
Elementary, Middle and beginning of High School was at Christian Home and Bible School, my senior year I transferred to public school at the big UHS (Umatilla High School). I went to college at USF (GO BULLS!) and graduated with a degree in Biomedical Sciences
Story of Salvation and Spiritual Growth:
I grew up in a “Christian household” trying to live the “perfect” life but failing miserably. I did not know what walking with my savior was like; I only knew that I constantly felt like I didn’t measure up. I tried to be perfect in every way, from the how I did in school to how I looked.
When I was a junior in college my world as I knew it was turned absolutely upside down. Because of this I remember about a week after this happened finding myself on my knees in my room telling God that He could own every part of me. I had realized at the point that no matter how hard I tried I could never measure up.
Since then my life has been an amazing journey with a savior who loves me more than I could ever love myself. Since I was in high school I always thought I wanted to be a doctor but when God decided to give my life a 180 He also decided to shake up my plans. I knew by the summer before my senior year in college that being a doctor was not what God had placed in my future. I pretty much decided that due to my track record I don’t always seem to make the best choices for my own life but God seems to always know what He’s doing. I decided to trust Him although during this time it felt like I was jumping out of a plane with no parachute.
Several months after this God dropped the middle school intern position in my lap which later lead to the student coordinator position. I couldn’t have imagined in a million years that God would use every inch of my life to bring me to where I am now. I feel like I look back and understand why everything happened the way it did and I can do nothing else but smile at how He works!!!
Something you might not know:
I love laughing and making people laugh; if you are smiling things just seem a lot better.