I was born in South America to parents who had courageously decided to pick up their family and follow the Holy Spirit as he led them to build a Christian radio station in Asuncion, Paraguay. The foreign mission field and its place in my immediate and extended family became the means by which God filled my heart and mind with stories of His incredibly diverse work here on earth through ordinary people to change lives and transform culture.

I am a wife to Joel, and mother to Olyvia, Liam and Helene. I met Joel while entering my second year of university, and while I never thought I would marry young it became quickly an undeniable fact that we were meant for each other. We married nearly one year after our first date and have been learning to adventure together ever since. From young on I dreamed of greatness…that may sound like a strange thing to say, but I don’t mean to imply I expected people to think I was great – I simply had big dreams of bringing change to the world, and that I was put on this earth for a distinct purpose.

I had always dreamed of becoming a mom and somehow I knew that I would stay home as a fulltime homemaker while our kids were young, not because I was pressured to, but because I felt this is where the Holy Spirit was leading me. So far it has been the greatest privilege and most difficult assignment I have ever undertaken. Although this journey (so far) has brought me to a place of such brokenness and testing, it has become a most significant place of encountering the transforming power and presence of God.

God continues to fill my heart with his love for people and I believe that human life is intrinsically valuable and immeasurably full of worth. Just as gold needs to be mined, so every person is full of treasure that often gets buried by the rubble (hurts, traumas and disappointments) of life and needs to be uncovered. As the Holy Spirit has begun to unpack for me the incredible worth that I have in Christ, the more natural it is to see the hidden gold in others and to help others to recognize their worth and purpose. I believe that the Spirit of God is moving tangibly upon the earth in these days to remind the daughters of God whose image they were made in, to celebrate their varying skills and talents and to set them free from destructive narratives that rob them of walking in the security of his unfailing love; a love which results in a life of joy, peace and true power to bring transformation upon the earth.

God has put in my heart the earnest desire to see women set free from the civil war within that rages against and undermines their divine destiny and calling, to see my sisters liberated from competition and comparison, and to see women and men enter into a state of true mutuality, codependency and sacrificial love such as the earth has never witnessed before!

I pray that the words you find being written here will be a source of encouragement to you as God pursues your heart and shows you the worth He places upon your life