hello!

I'm glad you are here!

I am Jennifer. Just one sinner that desperately needed saving, trying to point other sinners to the one that saved me, King Jesus.

a little back story on how I ended up here,

sharing my testimony and

spreading the good news of Christ Jesus.

I was raised in church from the age of 3-years-old. But would find myself running from God throughout my teenage years. After several life altering events, I turned back to the only thing I knew, Jesus. But this time, the Jesus I began a relationship with was much different from the God I spent my adolescences terrified of. I gave my life back to the Lord, March 25, 2012 and have never looked back.

I have attended church most of my adult life AND STILL DO. For the record, My focus is not on a physical building, the denomination, or religion -however, I care immensely about the good news of Jesus Christ being shared. For several years I conducted the searches for pastoral staff in various denominations. In my experience, despite the difference in denomination and congregation size, there was one commonality with every church - the brokenness behind the closed doors. I completely understood church staff having struggles and how desperately the enemy preyed on their downfall. What I couldn't understand - while facing their own demons, they so harshly judged, rebuked, and abandoned the lost sheep that walked through their church doors. I knew heartbreak from the church as part of the congregation but the devastation behind the scenes, broke my heart even more. It was there that I began to press into what the Lord was calling me to do. The Lord began working on my heart and #sittingwithsinners evolved. A Ministry that I, unapologetically believe in and undoubtedly know is God breathed, holy spirit filled.

Ezekiel 34

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts. My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

Arthur Beck

When the Holy Spirit began revealing #sittingwithsinners to me, the following questions crafted the branding of this Ministry. How can you share the gospel with people that you are not willing to sit at the same table with? "If you wanna share the gospel, you gotta share the same table." The Lord told me that it wasn't my job to save people, it was my job to point them to him. How can you provide direction to a lost person, if you aren't willing to slow down, see them, and speak to them?

While I believe the church in its physical form is important, organized religion operates in a broken world under broken people. We don't operate as a hospital for the sick, rather treat the sick as if they are contagious.

I know how it feels to walk through the church doors desperately looking for the only medicine that could save me. The longing, the searching, the hoping, and praying, to be met with confirmation that the church was not the safe space that we hoped for. For much of my life I was the sick one who lost hope of finding healing. Those administering medicine would take one look at the single mom, covered in tattoos, and turn the other direction. We didn't find open arms waiting to embrace us. Instead we were met with judgement and condemnation, that beared so much weight it would take another few years or catastrophic life event to get us back through those doors. We kept running back out to the world, because the world accepted us, when the church rejected us.

So, from one sinner to another, I hope you'll let me sit with you at your table.

I pray that you know Jesus died for you, too, because he thought you were worth it! Your sins are not too big. Your mistakes do not define you. You are not fast enough to outrun your savior. But if you will stop running, there you will find Jesus with open arms, waiting to hold you and heal you.

Jesus loves you and I am trying,

Jennifer #sittingwithsinners

Romans 10:14-15

How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? And how can they preach unless they are sent?"

Arthur Beck