I was born in Albany, GA in the best month of the year- October of 1988. My parents already had two boys, so everyone was really excited when they had a baby girl. My family moved to beautiful, not-as-hot North Georgia when I was about 6 months old. We've lived in the same house pretty much my whole life, so Gainesville is home.

I grew up in a Christian household and we went to church as a family every Sunday for as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school I was so busy with soccer, theatre, and dance that we started going to church less and less. I went off to Auburn University in the fall of 2007 and managed to find an amazing campus ministry, Baptist Campus Ministries, where I made some great friends and began expanding my relationship with Christ. After about a year at Auburn I decided to move home. I got involved in a toxic relationship and felt myself being pulled away from the Lord. Something like 10 months ago, I got out of that relationship. Some friends introduced me to some AIM staffers/WR alumni and I began hanging around with them and surrounding myself with a good community of people. Now I can say that my relationship with Christ has blossomed into something I never thought it could be. I never understood that you could have a 1-on-1 relationship with the Lord until I became involved with AIM. It was an epiphany (or revelation, if you prefer) that I could talk to God and He would talk back.

The last few months, especially in the last few weeks, the Lord has been breaking my heart over a number of things- love, orphans, death, etc. My family lost a close friend about a month ago and seeing how his death effects everyone in my life has led me to dive into my faith even more. There are a lot of things i still question, but I know for sure that the Lord walks with me and my family every day that we struggle with this loss. He stays in step with us and pushes us forward.

Since becoming involved with AIM, my heart has grown for missions. I want to GO. I want to help those people that have never heard of Christ or felt His love. I want to love on those orphans that have never been loved on by their parents. I've been struggling trying to figure out what my passion in life is...and I think it might be missions. I'm not exactly sure yet, but I'm praying about it.