My journey with the Lord started at the young age of six. It was during Junior Church that God grabbed my attention (it was actually my Sunday School teacher scolding me) and shared with me His great love for me and the way to live in eternity with Him. My mother lead me to the Lord, which, very sadly, a lot of kids these day cannot say.

I was blessed to be raised in a Christian home. After my father got saved he, with my mother, and oldest brother, moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee to attend Tennessee Temple University. Not long after he graduated we moved to New Mexico for a couple years. In 1990 the family moved to Carbondale, Colorado where my dad served at Crystal River Baptist Church for about two years. While attending Emmanuel Baptist Church in Glenwood Springs, Colorado for about five years my dad served the Lord as bus driver, song leader, and youth director. In February of 1996 when I was 11 years old my dad became the pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Ogallala, Nebraska. The Lord had us serve there for 5 years and then He called my dad to Manassa, Colorado, where he now has started the small church Sangre de Cristo Baptist Mission, meaning the Blood of Christ.

To share a little about my siblings, I have two brothers. There is Joseph who is 19 and has recently joined the Army, and will be shipped to Iraq in June. Joseph, being the youngest, hasn't always had it easy, if you know what I mean. But he always was a good sport about it. Joe is known for his beautiful spirit. He has a big heart for people and a great way of expressing it. He has always been the poet in the family and hopes some day to publish a few of his poems. The oldest of us three is Jesse who is 25 and has served with the Air Force for almost five years now. With a tender heart and firm hand I like to think of him as a leader. Jesse loves to build things and has a passion for horses. His big dream is to some day have his own Boys Ranch for a ministry.

As for me, I would like to share with you how the Lord called me to the mission field. It all started when I turned 16. The Lord gave me an opportunity to go on a missions trip, working at a school in Saipan, the capital island of the Northern Mariana Islands. I worked as a teacher's aid for the school and I met many young children that came from broken homes and rough living conditions. I would see them at times praying to their god's and my heart would break as I knew that their god's did not hear them. As they prayed to their lifeless, stone calf on their necklace I knew, even as a child, of the true living God. I thought to myself, “How could I have something so great and not share it with everyone.” I wanted to become a missionary, but was scared and did not see how the Lord could use someone with no great talent to give.

Two years later I graduated from high school and started to attend International Baptist Collage in Tempe, Arizona. While attending IBC I also attended and was a member of Tri-City Baptist Church. In this church hung a banner that said, “She hath done what she could.” quoted out of the book of Mark. Although this story does not refer to missions, the Lord used it to speak to me. I then decided to take the little I had to give and use it in whatever way the Lord wished.

After two years of college, the Lord had me return to my dad's ministry in Colorado. Working there for a year or so I helped in whatever area I could, playing the piano, cleaning the church, making bulletins, helping in the Sunday school and nursing home services, and just being there to support my family. It wasn't but a year later the Lord led me here to Baptist Youth Mission. It has, for a long time, been a desire of mine to be a part of BYM and it is a great blessing to work with such loving and passionate people.

Since coming to Sinclair, Wyoming I have become active in a local church working sometimes with the youth, playing the piano on Wednesday nights and making bulletins.