i had been out of church for a good part of five years, involved in many things i shouldn’t have been involved in. my best friend and i had just moved from dallas to kansas city and my other friend’s band was playing at a church so we decided to go.
something happened in that church. i thought it was a panic attack but it ended up being god blowing my face off in a very clear way, calling me back. i hid in the back of the room behind a partition, trying to keep my heart rate under 250 and prevent myself from hyperventilating.
a very spunky girl with bright red hair came up and out of nowhere, asked if she could pray for me. just what i needed. another religious crazy person. at 21, i had vowed to keep anyone religious far from my heart. however, i obliged. she prayed for things nobody would have known about, including my future involvement in ministry.
over the course of a few months, she suckered me into volunteering in that church’s youth ministry. a year later, i was hired on full time, and now, almost five years after that church-induced panic attack, i’ve been in full time vocational ministry.
in that time, she married to the love of her life and moved south africa, where she and her husband feed babies and buy food and love the least and the dying.
she lives and breathes in life and death all the time, and she had a post today i thought everyone should read.
go say hi to my friend kristi. give her a hug. she is in the trenches and more faithful to being obedient than probably anyone else i have ever met.
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8 responses to “my friend kristi”
kristi and i emailed yesterday and she said she’d be in nashville for a few days next month. i’d love to meet her in person if y’alls schedule isn’t too full! i’d loved getting to know her heart via blogging!
thanks, anne. that link hurts in a very deep place, but it is a place that needs to have its coals stirred again and again. I will pray for your friend, and for her work in the Kingdom.
I love Kristi’s blog! She’s amazing.
thanks for the link!!! very powerful!!!
Wow! “Heart-wrenching” is all I can say about what Kristi goes through! I’m not sure how she can handle it; I know that I couldn’t.
anne:
i love love love this post… wow. i’ve only known kristi through the internet, but have absolutely fallen in love with her heart.
she is one of the most amazing women i’ve ever come across.
Hey Anne. Look how lovely you look in that photo. Anyways…thank you so so so much for this post. I am amazed at how much love we got. I was reading and reading and I was like “who are these people?” Oh, they are your peeps! You rock. Seriously…you look smashing in that picture. All I can remember though is all those bobby pins.
i’m almost 100% sure that if that camera panned out just a little bit, i would be around somewhere looking spiffy in a tux with your sexy man husband…
and somewhere, Steve Jones looks like he’s 12 years old..