About Me
I am first and foremost a proud mom of two and wife of one.
"It only takes a spark..." is the tag line for my ministry because it has been the truth of my life. My love of the written and spoken word was sparked in first grade when I learned to read. The spark of love for my husband started with the fact that Paul made it through three dates and the spark of God grew out of an after school program held in the basement of a farm house.
Paul and I will be celebrating 13 years of marriage August 2009 and have had the privilege of parenting over 100 children. After one year serving in "traditional" youth ministry, we learned about working with troubled teens in group home settings and served in three different homes with both boys and girls. We've also opened our home to foster children and parent two little blessings that belong to us.
We have a great heart for youth, parents and the relationship between the two.
- A parenting Q and A column and other teaching articles
for The
Sammy Scoop, a quarterly newsletter where she also served as the
Relationships and Communication editor.
- “Mama,
Stuck” in The Christian Journal
-
“Safe
and Warm” devotional published on the Mustard Seed Ministries website
-
“My Worst Day Ever” in Chicken Soup for the
Soul: Teens Talk Middle School
- “I Can’t
Even Make Soup” in Lookout Magazine October 2008
- "Me and Justice for All" devotional coming out in The Secret Place fall 2009
- First place in Western Wisconsin Christian Writers
Guild contest 2008, poetry and article categories
- First place in Western Wisconsin Christian Writers
Guild contest 2009, fiction and non-fiction categories
- Top 100 finish (out of 17,000 entries) in the 2008 Writer’s
Digest contest, inspirational category
- The “Bible Devotion Fairy” youth blog: http://bibledevotionfairy.blogspot.com/
- Featured Family and Parenting Examiner at www.examiner.com where Becky contributes 3-4
articles per week.
- Becky has served as a popular Bible study teacher.
- She and her husband, Paul, also present a parenting
seminar called “The Grand Improvisation” to help moms and dads grow their
parenting skills.