Enya

My story is a messy one, but a testimony to God’s redeeming love, His faithfulness, patience, and grace. I truly feel like the lost sheep he went out to find and bring home.

I was not raised in a Christian household. My younger sister and I knew our parents loved us, but our home held a lot of pain that showed up in the form of addiction, emotional disconnect, violence, fighting, divorce, and loss of a parent at young age. Growing up I was always looking for ways to avoid being home, luckily one of those outlets was my local church youth group. There were so many seeds planted in my heart during that long season of life that would later come to fruition.

My other outlet was music. I learned to sing, play guitar, and write songs at 10 years old, I took lessons from the church worship leader at the time who was also making a living playing gigs around town. This eventually led to me both joining the adult worship team, leading the youth praise band, and also playing gigs of my own as full time job by the time I was 16.

Although I was very plugged into music and church, I had my struggles throughout my teen years. Unfortunately, I was caught up in a relationship that was repeating the same cycle I had seen growing up. It wasn’t until I found myself pregnant at 19, severely depressed, with a partner whose addiction and violence was only increasing, I knew had to take a leap of faith and trust that God had a better plan for my life. And He absolutely did, but it wasn’t going to look that way immediately. First He would walk with me through years of court dates, single-motherhood, therapy, and healing.

Fast forward to March of 2023 & I get to marry my amazing husband Anthony, August of 2023 we get baptized as a family, September of 2023 he adopts my daughter Rosey as his own, and now in October of 2024 we are expecting another girl together. 🙂

Today I look at my life and at my almost 9 year old little girl and see a pure reflection God’s love, truly a living example of how He can take our messy, scary, and broken situations and completely transform them into the most beautiful, wonderful thing you’ve ever seen. You are never too far gone for your Father’s love to reach you.

I’m passionate about raising awareness for & helping women and children out of DV situations, I’m a huge advocate for the SAFE program here in Culpeper.

I’ve had musical accomplishments like having a song on the radio, winning competitions & awards, opening up for bigger artists, and having the opportunity to record at a well respected studio. But I’ve come to realize there is nothing more important than Knowing God, serving God, and leading others to Him, I pray He helps me use my gifts to do just that. I have such a deeper understanding now of what it means to lead and to worship and I am so humbled to lead worship at MountainView.