09/07/2023
Here's a little bio of Emily and Jess as we share our hearts for Raising and Praising:
Enjoy the read! 🤓
Hey mamas! 🤎
I’m Emily and I lead Raising and Praising alongside Jess! I’m a wife, homemaker and mother to two beautiful babies.
Before I started staying home I taught in the Olathe School District for four years teaching Family and Consumer Sciences. I love to bake, read and sew (especially with or for my babies)🤗 Fall is my favorite season and I am so ready for it! 🍁 I’m currently publishing a faith based children’s book about the fall season!
Raising and praising is something near to my heart that I have been blessed to lead with my dear friend Jess! Becoming a mother has been the most impactful growth in my faith. It’s truly incredible to see how God designed women to carry and nurture these little souls! Motherhood also shows me how much I need Him everyday to minister to my babies so that He may be glorified and that they may grow up to know Him and love Him. I’m so thankful for the babies he has blessed me with and the fellowship with other moms he has created through this group. This group allows moms to walk along other moms in their faith and through motherhood. It’s so important to have other moms for fellowship and encouragement in the spirit to pray for you and lift you up! This is a place where we come together to dig into scripture and prayer because we know that motherhood is truly discipleship. We would love to have you join us! -Emily🤎
Hello 👋🏼 mamas!
I'm Jess, a follower of Christ, a wife to Luke, momma to two sweet boys (2 and 5), and a little girl on the way! 🩷 I'm a homeschool momma and have a teacher's heart✏️ with a passion for children! Before having babies of my own, I taught kindergarten and under, and I have a love for early childhood education. While toddlerhood is challenging, it's also my favorite! 🤪 I'm a lover of Jesus, messy projects😅, the outdoors, health and fitness, creating new meals for my very allergy-intolerant husband🍞, pumpkin patches🍁, and if you ask me where my happy place is, I will say the beach every single time🏝️
When I became a mother, I was not faithfully following the Lord (at this time, my husband wasn't even a believer). Motherhood had a way of pointing out all my failures and my need for a Savior and His grace to get me through this thing called "motherhood". It was there that our journey as a family really began!
When I became a mom, there was so much I was unprepared for. You know the things no one tells you about, like how your heart doubles in size and the joy of it all, but also how the days can be long, worrisome, and lonely. I longed for a group of other moms where I could connect without judgement, be encouraged by the Word of God, and walk away with my bucket feeling more full than when I showed up. At the time, that seemed impossible to find; now insert [raising and praising]. This is so much of mine and Emily's heartbeat for this moms group. 💓 To create a place where moms can enjoy fellowship with one another while also being encouraged first and foremost by the Word of God and then by other women. A place where you can find grace in the journey of motherhood but also be challenged to be the woman and mother the Lord is calling each of us to be. Motherhood can be a lot of things, but one thing it shouldn't be is done alone because, let's face it, we're better together! We were made for community and need each other. Emily, and I hope that's what you find when you come to raising and praising. -Jess🩵
