Bob and Jane’s Story

Jane and I have been involved in ministry for over 30 years. I have served as a Biblical counselor, retreat leader, preacher, teacher, youth worker and worship leader. Jane was a writer, a homeschooling mom, a Sunday School curriculum developer and teacher, and a mentor for young women. We served as missionaries in Alaska for 8 years doing counseling, teaching, preaching, evangelism and retreat leading. We also raised our son, Daniel, who is now married and employed in financial consulting while working on a Masters in Christian Counseling. Then the unexpected happened.

July 2, 2008 is burned into our hearts as the day God changed our lives and altered “normal” forever. It was the watershed moment for our faith, marriage, family and ministry. We were on the mission field hosting a volunteer team when tragedy struck. Jane and several team members were taking pictures at the base of a waterfall when a 50-pound rock came down the falls, bouncing wildly as it hit other rocks. Jane was struck in the head. She suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and now lives with symptoms of short term memory loss, logic and balance impairment, and severe chronic neurological pain down her left side.

Our journey of more than 10 years has been long and pain-filled. But God has used it to transform our hearts and draw us ever closer to Jesus. Though each day is hard, we are learning what is meant by “grace sufficient for the day” as we trust His Spirit in our daily challenges. We have come to embrace what God has shaped in us through this journey, and we have come to the point where we would not change what happened if it meant losing the gains we’ve received from Jesus.

By God’s grace, we're now at a place where we want to take the lessons we’ve learned and come alongside other families affected by disability. For families, we serve primarily as counselors. At the same time, we also serve as a resource for churches, helping them care for the disabled in their midst and encouraging them to use the gifts and abilities of the disabled in the life of the church. We also hope to be catalysts for change as we provide a voice for the often voiceless, invisible community of the disabled.