Believing that the better we tell our stories, the better we want to live them, Jody is committed to using story mediums to point people to connection and hope in Jesus. Drawing from lived experience as a mother of 6 and non-profit founder, Jody looks into the ordinary for the divine. Jody co-founded and currently assists, The Adventure Project, an organization committed to job creation in the developing world. Her nest nurtured 5 sons and 1 daughter (completed with the wonder twins from Sierra Leone) through what she would call 25 years of “intense” parenting.

Jody and her husband live in Washington where their nest is quickly emptying. Jody is particularly sensitive to the themes of children with medical needs, adoption, and God’s nearness to the brokenhearted. But as Frederick Buechner says, Jody believes, “My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally.”

Jody currently works on curriculum development for The High Ground Project. Her ongoing ministry will compile stories crafted for connection and experiential opportunities to guide others through unwrapping the power and through lines of God’s faithfulness in their own stories.