My Story

I started Unchurched and Convicted out of my struggles and challenges with the church. I gave my life to Jesus Christ at nine years old and was excited to have a best friend for life, literally! As I grew into my teenage years, my relationship with Jesus was rocky. I searched for something to fill this void deep inside my soul. This feeling came and went until I went to college at seventeen. During my college years, I immersed myself in anything and everything “Christian.” I was trying to do the “right” things hoping and praying that they would work, and I would get to be like everybody else. (i.e., find my perfect soul mate, get married, have a family, and have a successful career). After I graduated college at twenty-one, life turned into a downward spiral. I had a rough transition into my first teaching job and quit. I bounced around every two years to different positions and eventually made my way back into teaching. My second teaching experience was worse than the first, and when that chapter ended, I was hanging on by a dear thread. That precious thread snapped, and I was in a holding pattern trying to figure out my next move.

Even though I thought I had halfway figured out my life, God has been showing me that His plans are better. Jeremiah 29: 11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” All my methods failed to pan out, but God made his presence known every time. Once I finally realized that people hurt me and not Jesus; my whole perspective changed. On January 1, 2021, at 2 a.m., The Holy Spirit stepped into my life like He had never done before and rocked my world. Since that day, I have been taking a vastly different approach to diving deeper into my relationship with Him via apologetics.

I am so enthralled with this field of study. I feel like a baby Christian all over again. Apologetics allows me to ask questions and explain why I believe biblical and historic Christianity to be true. Apologetics also gave me the confidence to be firm in my faith regardless of what other people think or how they might make me feel. I’ve been learning how to approach everything biblically, and this is now my new framework for life.

My hope and intention with Unchurched and Convicted is to document my journey of falling in love with Christian Apologetics, finding a church home, and sharing the Good News of the Gospel while living my best life in the great American Midwest! Jesus Christ has been working through so many areas of my life, and I hope my testimony encourages you in your relationship with Him.

Matthew 28: 16-20 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”