Board & Staff

I could live in the mountains and look out the window and see God’s glory and beauty every day and get to know Him more. But there’s something about living among people — looking out my window and seeing the brokenness and realizing my own brokenness and need for a Savior every day. For God so loved me He sent me to the poor that I might know Him more and know my need for Him more.

My neighbors (specifically the moms of my students) are beautiful people whose generosity, sincerity, and friendship bless me every day.

Kids are fun!!! I am so privileged to spend my days with them.

God’s ways are not my ways but He is always good and loving. 

When I am stubborn and try to do things in my own strength, God patiently draws me back to Himself.

Ministry[/life] is so much less of our work than I ever imagined and so much more God’s work on my own heart. And how beautiful that is…that He is always after our hearts. And that pursuit – being pursued by the King of the Universe – that is what we share with each other as we point each other to Christ through the good times and bad. That is when ministry[/life!] happens. The Gospel for Daily Living.

God has shown Himself so faithful to me in just my short time here at Parker Street Ministries. I am thankful to work for an organization that loves and trust God far more than anyone or anything else. I feel blessed to be a small part of the work going on here and love the relationships that I have built with the staff, volunteers, and neighbors who continue to teach me more of who Jesus is every day.

God loves His kids. No, really. He loves us so much. Through working at PSM, I have grown to see the supernatural patience, grace, and unconditional love that the Lord has given to me to show our students. By loving our students in the only way I know how, through God’s love, I have experienced a new form of love He has for me that I didn’t see before.

There is nothing I did to make God start loving me so there is nothing I can do to make Him stop loving me. When approaching our students with this same idea, it is remarkable to watch how safe they feel knowing we will always love them no matter what. This love unravels a feeling of safety and peace in our program that only comes from Heaven. What an honor it is to be a part of such work.

Working at Parker Street Ministries has taught me so much. As each day moves forward, I am learning that God has blessed me by allowing me to see His work unfold. We are here, not to do our own work but to do God’s work and to learn from Him.

God has taught me that His will is always better and that in life “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” Exodus 14:14. God is going to open and shut doors in our life and we need to be willing to go through the doors He has opened and be at peace with the ones He has shut.

I will never stop learning! There will always be a way to further my knowledge every new day.