Servant of Jesus Christ and a steward of the mysteries of God
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1 Corinthians 4:1
Professional Bio
For over 15 years, Rebekah has been leading others, helping them develop, and inspiring groups of 20 to 2,000 through speaking and training.
Rebekah holds a Master’s Degree in Human Services, Counseling, and has successfully started a ministry doing exactly what she loves… helping women have ah-ha moments that forever elevate their life and deepen their faith.
Born and raised in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, Rebekah’s upbringing was rooted in faith and family. She began serving women as a Resident Assistant while attending Northwestern College in Orange City, IA. As a graduate student, she continued pouring into women and growing in her leadership and love for God as a Resident Director and international mission trip leader at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.
It was then that she became burdened by the gap between the real lives of modern women and what was being discussed in mainstream Christianity. She saw a glaring need for more antithetic teaching and better answers and felt the call to be the one to lead the way.
While serving as the interim-Director of Women’s Ministry at Liberty, Rebekah started a Bible study called “Truth Be Told.” Every Sunday night for two years she fearlessly asked the hidden questions of young women and provided well-thought-out truth to help them grow in their faith. Truth Be Told grew to about 200 young women and led to various invitations to speak. Her speaking ministry grew. Rebekah also completed her Master’s Degree and began work as a supervised counselor.
After a few years as a counselor, Rebekah moved back to California to be near family and assumed a management role at California State University, Stanislaus. There she was responsible for the professional development of department employees. She became an expert in Soft Skills Training. (Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, Team Work, Small Group Leadership, Problem-Solving)
In early 2018 she combined all her experience and started working full time as a Speaker and Coach.
At her core, Rebekah is a content risk taker who feels most like herself when she is sitting alone with journal and most alive when standing in front of others, bringing them along, together, on a learning journey.
Currently Rebekah lives and works with her husband, Jeff at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
My Story
The first thing you need to know about me is that my life has not turned out the way I dreamed it would.
I grew up in a loving, spiritually healthy Christian home, a pastor’s daughter with a front-row seat to ministry, discipleship, and the beauty (and brokenness) of the Church. Like most young women, I dreamed of a traditional future: marry the perfect husband early, start a family, raise kids who love Jesus.. live a happy healthy american life.
But that’s not the story God wrote.
As all my friends started down that road, my twenties went by. Then my early thirties. then my mid-thirties. No marriage. No family. No timeline that made sense.
And in God’s perfect timing, I met my husband Jeff and married him at age 39.
A beautiful grace to be sure, but not the final resolution to my inner story. God’s work in me wasn’t about a husband; it was about learning to love Him with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength and letting Him love me back.
Those years taught me everything I now teach women:
That there is always a truth that heals. That honesty is the fastest way though pain. That lament is the path to joy. That Jesus meets us in reality, not in fantasy and that He is enough to get us through anything. And I do mean anything.
…And that the ultimate fairy-tale happy ending and satisfaction were never met to be here on earth. Our good desires desires are but a echo of the Gosple-story and the coming King.
With every passing year, I had to wrestle with God and the questions of His faithfulness and provision. I also eventually had to face the truth in my heart:
the grief I didn’t want to feel (because what if I never came out of that darkness?)
the longing I kept pushing away
the anger I felt toward God blessing others and “not me”
the dreams that were dying quietly inside me
The years of waiting were not gentle or short. But they were formative. A slow, painful descent into total honesty and eventually… into freedom.
I learned how to lament. I learned how to face emotions instead of suppressing them. I learned how to stop using ministry and productivity to outrun grief or create meaning. I learned where true worth and the deepest intimacy come from, and spoiler alert, and it’s not marriage, motherhood, or meeting cultural expectations.
xo Rebekah
Behind the Scenes
Leading mission trips for college students
loving the Aunt Life
getting married at age 39!
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Truth Applied is a podcast for women who want to live their faith thoughtfully and practically. Through biblical teaching, wisdom, and coaching insight, each episode helps you apply truth to the realities of everyday life.
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