Jeremy & Rebecca

"I always wanted a nerd with social skills. Well, I got one, and I couldn't be happier."

"Who wouldn't want to marry this domestic goddess?!?"

Rebecca did make both of those statements. All of her life she has been waiting for the man that God had intended for her to make a life with, and she is so excited to have finally met him.

Rebecca was born into a home full of love for God and people. She was a precocious little curly-headed troublemaker, always talking to strangers. Tragedy came into the story when Rebecca was two, and her mother passed away. God makes all things beautiful though, and He brought her a wonderful mom to help her dad raise her right. Her parents also provided her with four younger brothers to keep things interesting.

School years were spent bopping back and forth between private schools and homeschooling. Rebecca graduated from Seattle Christian High School (one of four valedictorians! She has a medal and everything!) and then proceeded to study English Literature and Secondary Education at Seattle Pacific University. She also enjoyed the University Scholars program at SPU, although it ended up becoming a bit of a love-hate relationship. Through a series of events, Rebecca found out that she was not destined to make teaching her profession, at least not in a typical school setting, and so she finished her bachelor's degree early and ended up finding a job in customer service and sales at a Large Unnamed Banking Institution. In the past six-almost seven-years at LUBI, she has moved from banker to manager and now to investment sales assistant. She still views her banking career as God playing a good joke on her, but has been grateful for the opportunities and growth that have happened there.

Rebecca's first memory is of a prayer vigil, so it follows that her life would be marked by the presence of God. At three years old she was telling strangers in line at the grocery store that Jesus was her friend. At eleven she experienced her first knock-you-over experience with God, and found confidence in Christ as her Lord and Savior. Teenage years were understandably rough, and Rebecca took a turn for the melancholy, especially durnig her college years, when she struggled with relationships and learning that she was not strong enough to make life work all by herself. In the years since college, God has again and again shown Himself to be loving and faithful, and Rebecca's faith has deepened and strengthened through the long nights of "why God" conversations and the moments of pure joy and freedom.

In the area of men, Rebecca went through a long dry spell. While she had a lot of fabulous guy friends, she was known for writing blog posts about singlehood and the lack of dating opportunities at her church (despite a high percentage of singles in the congregation). Rebecca had a lot of conversations with the Lord about this lack of male attention, especially since she knew that God had called her to be a wife and mother. But in God's infinite wisdom, He kept telling her to wait, to be still and know that He is God.

And so she waited. And then one day, when life was great, and she was the most contented, and the least worried, God introduced her to a wonderful man named Jeremy.

Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in the Mississippi... -Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson aka "The Jerk"

"I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it." -Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson aka "The Jerk"