When you grow up in an unchurched family in the heart of the Bible Belt, you learn to appreciate the message of Jesus. Christians, not so much! My family spent years looking for a place where we could belong as imperfect people. With our hesitancy about organized religion and our doubts about their firmly held doctrines, we never seemed to fit in at the churches we visited. When we were finally found a judgement free community of people who are real about their flaws at Heart

​I’m someone who loves an adventure, especially when it comes to serving God. It took a long time to discover this about myself, but now that I have realized God’s purpose for me, I’m loving life like never before! I have been a part of the ministry team at Grace Church in Cape Coral for about twenty years now, and that is a journey that has taken many exciting twists and turns along the way. I am grateful for every opportunity I’ve had to lead ministries for people of all ag

My mother was unable to care for me at birth. My biological father is unknown to this day. In my earliest memories, I am sitting beside my grandmother on the front pew on the preacher’s right at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Ocala, Florida. Pastor Holland Vaughn and the people of St. Mark’s gathered around me at my infant baptism. Together they took responsibility to surround me with “a community of love and forgiveness.” They stepped into the gap of loss in my life w