Your Personal History

*. Describe your conversion experience or explain how and when God became real and personal to

you.

Well I knew Him as a child but “grew out of Sunday school”, once I was a teenager I hung out with

an older crowd and grew up way too fast. I was your typical successful party girl with a good job,

cool friends and did your typical party girl stuff. I hit a road block in nursing school with this wicked

Nursing instructor that really had it out for me, so bad that she ended up losing her job over it and I

ended up gaining a Lord and Savior. After dropping out of nursing school over her treatment I took a

journey to find God telling myself no human being would ever have that much fear over me. Just

about 9 months to the day after much kicking and screaming and trying other gods on for a try, all

truth, real truth, led to Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible. I received the Lord only after dabbling into

New age and even met a guy who taught religion and would spend time with the Deli Llama in India.

I despised organized religion such as Christianity because I believed Christians thought they were

the only ones not going to hell and they were better than everybody else. But in the end they were

pretty much right minus that they thought they were better than everybody else. I gave my life to

Christ November 11, 1995 after responding to an alter call from John Muncy. At that moment I

believed Christ had truly inherited a real live hypocrite because I had no reason to believe I could

ever change from being a true blue party girl. But He did, He changed me more than you could ever

know. I love the Lord with all my heart and soul. He is everything, He did it all.

2. Briefly describe other spiritual experiences and/or significant events in your Christian life.

Well while I dropped out of college for a short while, I went on a spiritual journey to find out who

God really was. Honestly I did not want to end up being a Christian. I was so hoping that you could

have God thru any religion, preferably a religion that met my ways, life, and conformed to my version

of life’s truth. SO I kind of gotten into the New Age religion and really liked it as far as how it fit ME.

But it had a lot of holes in it and was kind of a bit freaky and weird so I had to eliminate it as I was in

a serious search for the truth of God and all those other religions just had to much unusual doctrines

that just didn’t convince me that the real God could be behind all that. SO now I am a big advocate

for truth of God and not settling for a Burger King god but getting the real God with His truth, His

life, His ways, not the me, me, me, god. But I will say this on my journey the enemy put some very

interesting people in my path and I think most people would of grabbed a hold of the offers I had thru

some very powerful mystical people, but I wanted to know God in my soul and the depths of my

being so God wasn’t in competition with man. I found Him!

3. What experience do you have in sharing your faith?

I am not sure if this is bragging or boasting in the Lord. But one of my favorite Christians that I have

ever known (Alex Esquero- former College Pastor at First Assembly on Phyllis Place SD) told me

that I have an amazing gift of evangelizing and that he believed of all the people he met I had been

someone he felt knew how to minister to anybody. Coming from him that hit my heart and has met

something to me till this day. I do have to admit when I was truly living for the Lord it was amazing

and I could minister to anybody and touch them with how they needed to hear it not the same

message like a cookie cutter message but a way that met their individual needs or learning ways. I am

thankful for that gift because to me sharing the gospel and reaching the lost is the greatest gift you

could give someone the gift of eternal life thru Jesus Christ! I pray that I get centered again and that

God would use me in even a greater way now than He did before.

4. What church work experience have you had? Have you any leadership experience?

Yes I said earlier and I will go ahead and paste it again here. I am proud of the times when my walk

with God was fruitful. I feel like I cling to these memories because I haven't been active for God for a

long time. I use to be a youth leader for my girlfriends daughters, there were about 10 total. I

followed them from the age of 11 till 16 or 17 and mentored them and had youth groups for them thru

those years. It was incredible and has born much fruit till this day including their parents own

salvation. I also led a college age Bible Study at my house which was very spirit led. We had a lot of

party's at my house filled with people who knew God and a lot who didn't and someone always

received the Lord by the end of the night. I also ministered to all my neighbor kids and they would

come over every day and visit and I would give them candy ;) and then tell them a Bible story and

listen to their lives. That was over 10 years ago and they live in Ohio where I use to live. To this day

they call me and we get together when I go home. I love kids, youth and I use to be an abstinence

speaker and mentored troubled/foster kids. I love to teach the word.

5. Which religious books, apart from the Bible, and Christian periodicals have influenced you most

and why?

There is so many! CS LEWIS “Screwtape letters” Really opened my eyes to the spiritual realm,

Ephesians 6 tells us we do not fight against flesh and blood and this Classic best-seller, although short

and sweet, was dead on for me and I still think how the enemy tags us and tries to defeat us with his

wisdom of man and his cunning ways. I also appreciated CS Lewis “Mere Christianity” I use to give

that book away to co-workers and people who would try debating God with me I pleasantly asked

them to read this book and then get back with me. It had a powerful effect on describing Christianity

without pushing it just plain and simple, that’s a good read! I enjoy Billy Graham’s the 4 horsemen I

think we should be read up on Revelations and the coming world events that are unfolding and that

book taught me a lot including the Tom Lahaye, Jerry Jenkins “Left Behind” series I read almost

everyone of those and I would say after reading the Bible that those books were pretty right on for

me. I appreciate Yancy Phillips “Prayer”, very good book, really able to bring the LOGIC of prayer

alive not focus so much on the spiritual aspect of it but the actual relevance and how we humans have

a hard time with it, I would give that to non-believers too and they loved it. There is a lot I have read

that I wouldn’t mind re-reading again and start it all over. Oh I can’t leave this book “Revelation of

world Missions, Gospel of Asia” from KP Yohannon, wow 2nd only to the Bible! Powerful book on

where our money is going and where it should be going and what missionary work is really all about!

I can’t say enough about this book. It is free and I ordered it over and over and passed it out all the

time! You have to read it.

6. Briefly describe any experiences you have had in other cultures.

Wow that’s a loaded question. Please understand I am from the Midwest, so we are predominantly

white, but for some reason we always had foreigners at our house. My adopted sister (adopted by

heart only) is from Nepal we would have open house at our house when we lived together and all

kinds of different backgrounds of people would come, we had a house party once and almost 30

DIFFERENT nationalities showed up not being planned at all. We really catered to Eastern Indian’s a

lot and I still have a kindred spirit towards Asians. (Must read Gospel of Asia Revolution of world

mission) But I lived in Jamaica, my husband is Jamaican and I consider Jamaica my country as well. I

will say this I had a hard time there such a different culture, but I still love Jamaica. I also lived in

Mexico for 4 yrs with my husband. We both love people and have a heart for people especially those

that go without and are in need.

7. How would you describe your Christian life and your relationship with the Jesus at the present

time?

This is the sad question. I feel so far from Him but I know He is right here. Back home it was

different Christian’s everywhere, Bible belt area Christian’s always respected there it’s not the same

here but I am not the same either. I no longer lead any Bible studies I do love on people and share

Christ but not like I use to. My marriage has put everything in the back seat and because my marriage

has been so troubled I have put all my energy into it. I am a roller coaster with God trying to get back

to a place where I could be in a place of leadership but I believe unless your life is fruitful how can

you go and expect to help someone else grow?

8. Do you feel God has called you into some kind of full-time Christian service? Please explain.

Well I believe God has big plans for all of us, I believe He has made it possible to do the greatest

thing in the world for Him if we are just faithful to His call. I do believe God has given me gifts that if I

sharpened them and abided in Him that He could really use me. TO be used full time as in my job I am

not sure but when you’re not in a place with good sound reception you just don’t know what you should

be hearing? If you know what I mean. I want God to have His way whatever that is.

9. How might you see using your skills/training in a ministry or missions context? What is your

vision for doing something after completing IMPACT 195?

I am not sure. I know I love kids, maybe foster parenting, help children whose parents are in prison?

Short term missions to Jamaica or other countries? Relief projects? Street evangelism, preaching!

Wherever God would take me. I want to be whole in Christ and ready to go and do what He wants to

be full of His zeal

10. What are your hopes and expectations for yourself during your nine months at IMPACT 195?

I want to make a family here, have friends like I did back home, it is lonely for me here in SD. I want

to have that fellowship with other believers that become family to me. I want to get my life back in

Christ and become solid as a rock! I want to grab a hold of He that has grabbed a hold of me! I want

to be on FIRE!

11. How do you think you would cope with challenging situations like: working while going to

school, serving in cutting edge ministry, traveling to different cultures, etc.?

If it’s what God wants then God will make a way, I know it will get tiring to work full time and come

to class and such but I want this, I NEED THIS! I feel if I don’t dive into God like this that I may lose

my faith or my soul or someone else that would of heard because of me won’t and the world needs

me to tell them about Christ.

12. How did you hear about IMPACT 195.

From being at the Rock and attending an Impact open house earlier this year and I remember last year

when Miles was there and George gave a call. Also I have been watching you guys and listening, and then

the infamous talk Scott gave me while out in the halls at the Rock. That was funny.

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