Saying Yes To God's Calling

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One day, I had a conversation with my husband’s sister where she described a recent dream. She saw my husband holding a dark-skinned little girl and calling him Daddy. This really moved me.

A couple of days later, I was scrolling on YouTube, and saw a video of two little boys from the Philippines singing a beautiful worship song together. Once again, I became emotional, and God gave me a vision. He put it on my heart that there was a little girl with chunky cheeks and big brown eyes who needed us. He told me we needed to bring her home to our family.

I walked out to the backyard to share this with Stan. Tears flowed from my eyes, and I became convinced that the Lord was showing us what we needed to do. Stan was in law enforcement, and I was a stay-at-home mom. We had always said we would adopt, but we were living on one income with four biological children at home. Because life happens, adoption had fallen to the back burner. We did not know anything about how to adopt internationally or how to care for a child who had special needs. We were walking blindly through faith in obedience to Christ.

In 2016, we brought our daughter, Mika Ella, home. With having cognitive delays, being non-verbal, and having bilateral clubbed feet, she had significant special needs. But we quickly bonded with her....

Prodigal Pottery

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God led me to be part of a ministry I never imagined. Located inside a women’s shelter, Prodigal Pottery teaches women who may have been victims of abuse, addiction or trafficking to make pottery.

It’s amazing to see how God put all the pieces of this ministry in place. I majored in fine arts and went to Rwanda for a year to work with women's craft cooperatives and teach art to children orphaned from the genocide. When I came home, I wondered what doors God would open for me.

The King’s Home, a faith-based women’s shelter, had been given an industrial-sized kiln to make pottery. They had no idea what they would do with it, but someone associated with the home knew me and asked if I’d be interested in starting a pottery program for women who lived there. At first, I said no; I just didn’t feel equipped to work with women that had been through such rough experiences. And I said no a couple other times before finally saying I would just visit to see their equipment. But when I got there and toured the home, I knew God was calling me to work there....

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