Two of my favorite activites are studying the Bible with other women and leading people in worship. I love my church! I'm thankful to be grounded in this community of faith, and thankful that the Lord designed us to live and serve together as the Body of Christ.

I have been married to Don since 1988. It has been a joy to minister together with him throughout our marriage. Our family includes two delightful adult daughters and their husbands, and two precious grandsons. I love being their mom and grandma!

My childhood was spent in Japan, California, Germany, Louisiana, and Virginia courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. I graduated from Evangel University in Springfield, MO with a Bachelor of Music Education degree (piano major). Throughout my years at Evangel, I had the opportunity to travel all over the country, ministering in churches with a choral group. I became a licensed minister affiliated with the Assemblies of God in 1997. I currently teach choral music at a local public middle school. I love books and read voraciously. I also enjoy road trips, history, photography, baking, needle arts, and doing absoutely anything with our grandsons.

One of my favorite scriptures is found in Psalm 27, verse 4: "One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple."