Step by step. Some tiny and slow. Others giant leaps to unfamiliar places. Each one building upon the other to lead me here to my life today as GRM’s prayer coordinator. Following God has led me on an unexpected but rewarding journey of life-changing growth. I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools. Throughout those years, I believed in Jesus but did not really understand what it meant to experience a personal relationship with Him by grace alone. Through the witness of college friends, I first understood the truth of Ephesians, 2:8-10, that we are saved by faith and not by our own efforts.
Once I married my husband Jack (forty plus years ago in June of 1980), we began attending Bible-believing churches. I was introduced to Bible study and began to fall in love with the Word of God. Our son Tim was born in 1985. The joys and struggles of parenthood began. I lived my life as a praying woman, but worry always accompanied those prayers. When Tim entered junior high, God used his adjustment problems to nudge me to take one of those steps of faith. For such a small action at the time, this move became the foundation for my ministry today. Realizing I needed to pray more effectively for my son, I decided to contact a ministry called Moms in Touch International (now called Moms in Prayer International.) In God’s perfect provision, He arranged for me to see an ad in our local newspaper advertising an open house for interested moms. I called a friend, we attended the meeting together, and started a Moms in Prayer group for our local junior high. All these years later I am still participating in a Moms in Prayer group, but now I pray not only for my son, but for his wife Emma and my 3 beautiful grandchildren, Gus, Mimi and Iggy.
