Thank you for being here, sincerely. I’m inexpressibly thankful for all of you, whether you are supporting me financially, joining me in prayer, or simply checking out this blog. You rock!

My name is Kate and one time someone told me I was a kiwi because I may be boring on the outside but I’m a party on the inside. I’m not sure if that’s true but I’m sharing it with you because I think it's funny.

 I live with both of my parents and have a sister in college. All three of these individuals are incredible and inspire me every day. I mean, they’ve accomplished the feat of putting up with me, so that speaks for itself. I am surrounded by a church community that has loved and supported me my entire life, helping me root my faith and pour into others. 

I run a lot. I love camping and jazz and scaring middle schoolers in our church parking lot (you have to believe me this is an incredible way to form mentoring relationships). I want to work in environmental public health as a career, probably in a developing part of the world. 

But none of these things are important. All I have to share with you is Christ. In order to share Christ with you I am going to be uncomfortably honest on this blog.

I believe that in order to display God's incredible grace I must not minimize my own weakness and doubt, because the fact that God is still powerful enough to work through someone as twisted as me is insane. And it's a story you deserve to hear.

Through the next year, I’ll be listening to God and wrestling through big scary questions in my faith. I’ll be speaking with people who hold wildly different perspectives than me, serving the broken, and sharing the love of Christ in every situation. This journey will start in America, then Romania, India, and Costa Rica. 

1 Corinthians 2:2-5 says: “For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified. I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling. And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.  I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.”

This verse is my prayer. I am a broken person living in a broken city in a broken world. My only redemption is Christ. Pray that I will pour out his love free of any of my own brokenness or the brokenness of my culture. All I have is Christ. Any other knowledge or qualifications are meaningless. 

Thanks for joining me on this journey. It’s going to be a wild ride.