History

I grew up in Michigan, primarily in the suburbs northwest of Detroit, in Oakland County.  I relocated the suburbs of Philadelphia after college to teach Spanish in a private Christian school.  There I met my husband, had three sons, and served in a strongly missions-minded local church, at the time named Langhorne Terrace Baptist Church.  This church sent our family to serve under the Association of Baptist for World Evangelism as church-planters to the highlands of Papua New Guinea.  We served in the mountainous Chimbu Province of this developing third-world Island nation, nick-named "The Land that Time Forgot" and "The Land of the Unexpected."  After 3 1/2 years of assisting my husband in village church-planting, teaching New Guinea Pidgin literacy, and home-schooling our sons, we met the unexpected when his asthma suddenly took his life.  My sons and I returned to Langhorne, PA where I oversaw the Children's ministries at Langhorne Terrace Baptist.  5 1/2 years later we returned to Papua New Guinea as a single-parent family.  I taught high school English and Spanish in a school for missionary children run by New Tribes Mission and worked once again with the ABWE team, this time in assisting a national pastor and wife in their local church in the town of Goroka in Eastern Highlands Province.  As my children completed high school there, one by one, I continued to cross paths with many Papua New Guinean women who suffered abuse, neglect, and grief from losses of various kinds.  I wanted to become better equipped to help such women.  In 2006, I relocated temporarily to the Philadelphia area in the USA and began working from a distance on an M.A. in biblical counseling at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.  In 2009, I moved to the Louisville area to simultaneously study and work under a USA missions organization to counsel and connect local families (that I met at a pro-life family resource center) to Spanish and English-speaking churches and ministries in the area.  In 2014, I finished my studies and continued serving at the resource center and in the community until 2018 when I relocated to care for senior parents and work to replicate a similar ministry in Michigan.  I feel so privileged and amazed to have the opportunity to offer hope to local families through a ministry that is both so challenging and so rewarding.