About Lisa
I was raised in a church-going family. We attended a liberal, mainline denomination and church was something of a social requirement, with no connection to a personal relationship with God. When I was about 12 years old, my family left that church and began attending a Bible-believing, evangelical church. It was then that I learned that the God that I’d heard about in a distant way all my life wanted to have a personal relationship with me. I invited Him to become Lord of my life in 1982, when I was 13.
I sought to follow God and learn more about Him through high school. After graduation, I sensed that he wanted me to be involved in full-time ministry, but I didn’t know exactly how. I’d always been involved in music, so I enrolled in William Tyndale College’s Church Music program. I never doubted that God had led me there, especially since that’s where Tim and I met (we married in 1990, just before I graduated). But even after graduating from the program, I didn’t sense a strong call to seek a full-time position in a church.
I spent the next few years volunteering in the churches we attended, still feeling called to serve and use the training I’d received at Tyndale. I had several jobs over the years, most of them secretarial or administrative in nature, some in a Christian setting. But I still felt restless, trying to find where God wanted me to be. I finally found a vocation that I loved and felt called to when I became a sign language interpreter. But the calling to ministry still hadn’t left me.
The other calling I’d felt for my entire life was that of a stay at home mother. But God chose to have us wait many years for children. When we finally adopted our first daughter in 2002, I stopped working as an interpreter to stay home with her. With the addition of our second and third daughters in 2003, I knew that God had confirmed His call for me to be a stay home mom. But still, I yearned to be in ministry and serve Him with the gifts and talents He’s given me.
The answer to that call came in December 2003 at Campus Crusade’s Christmas Conference in Indianapolis. Although we had only been home from China for a week after adopting our daughter Eliana and were exhausted (and still feeling the effects of jetlag) Tim was confident that God had called us to be there. On the last night of the conference, God spoke to him and showed him what He wanted us to do: work with The JESUS Film Project. This was an answer to prayer, and the fulfillment of both callings that I’ve felt for my entire life. I can stay home with our kids and still be in full-time ministry as I manage our home, support Tim’s work in the master studios of The JESUS Film Project, and be involved in our church and community. I know that I’m in the perfect place: a place where I can serve God in the way He wants me to, both now and in the future.