I was born and raised in a little town in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The perfect place for a childhood with lots of places to play and for imaginations to grow. I am the oldest of four girls and my family is one of my biggest joys. I have wanted to be a nurse for forever, or so it seemed as a kid. So after getting my Bachelor's in Nursing at Seattle Pacific University and working for a year at Seattle Children's Hospital I ended up halfway around the world ministering at Bethesda Hospital in West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. For three years I ate a lot of rice, learned a whole new language and way of life and discovered that the world was bigger than even the imagination of my childhood could dream up.
After I returned to the US in 2006, I headed back to school and worked a "normal" job at Providence Regional Medical Center in their Family Maternity Center, as a nurse. In 2010 I received my Master's Degree in Nursing from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing and became a nurse-midwife.
I returned to Indonesia in June 2013 and just finished four years of serving as a teacher at Bethesda Nursing Academy. In October 2017, I took my first home assignment/furlough. I have enjoyed spending time with family and friends and connecting with those who support me through prayer and financially. In mid-2018 I returned to Indonesia for another 3 year term. Because of Covid-19 I ended up spending most of 2020 and all of 2021 in the US, teaching my students online. For the 2022-23 academic year, we were all able to return to the campus with a record 160+ students!
So now that you know a little bit about me here are a few links to those first blog posts that tell the rest of the story:
Why
What
Where (Part I)
Where (Part II)
Interested in Partnering
