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.

On this side of life, we won’t know or meet every human being. God is, therefore, very purposeful in those He plants in our lives—and whose lives we’re planted in. Ephesians 5:2 says, “And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.” The love being shown—and the work being done in this neighborhood—through Jesus is as a sweet-smelling aroma before the Lord. I am thankful and honored He also picked me, of all people, to be planted here for such a time as this.

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.

The love of God that has been so beautifully demonstrated throughout the course of history, and most clearly through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, is for all people. Therefore, we love all people. None of us can earn or strive our way into God’s glorious kingdom. His presence, His love, and His willingness to be someone we can know and have a relationship with is a gift we don’t deserve. But God is a good father who gives good gifts to His children. After all, God Himself is the greatest gift!

I am learning in fresh ways God’s crazy and intense love that He has for us all. Not because of anything that I have done and even in spite of my nature, He loves and pursues and desires that I pursue loving others as He has loved me. I have the opportunity to do that with those around me in my service to this neighborhood.