
I grew up in Clear Lake and was raised
Methodist. My family was sporadic in attending church during my
childhood. When I was a freshman at Texas A&M, I started dating
Scott. He was raised church of Christ and I started attending church
with him. We got married the summer before our senior year. We
weren’t active at the church we went to and didn’t go every
Sunday. After we graduated we moved to Longview, his hometown. Once
we were there we started going to church every Sunday but honestly,
it was because we were going to the same church his parents were
going to and we were afraid of what his dad would say if we didn’t
go. As time went on I was glad we were there because I was making
friends and I did start to enjoy the Bible classes. Three years
after we moved there God blessed us with a baby boy – Trent.
Right after our 6th wedding
anniversary I found out that Scott was having an affair with a woman
that he was working with. I was devastated when he decided to move
out a few days after I found out. I wasn’t working and Trent had
just turned 11 months old. I had no idea how I was going to support
myself and my son, and I was scared to think about raising my son by
myself. This is the event in my life that made me so aware of how
our Heavenly Father takes care of us. I found out how important it
is to have a church family and Christian friends that will take care
of their own. I spent hours of my day in prayer and searching
scripture for words that would help me through the tough times. For
months the prayers were that God would send Scott back to us. When
it became evident that that wasn’t going to happen I started
praying that a good Christian man would come in my life so that I
wouldn’t be alone. This is when I learned the lesson of it will be
God’s timing and not my own. I was a single mom for 8 years!
Fast forward to four years after my
divorce. After much thought, discussions with my family and many
prayers I made the hard decision to leave Longview and move to
Houston. I would be near my family, have better job opportunities
and have bigger churches with singles groups. On our first Sunday in
Houston, Trent and I visited the Memorial Church of Christ. I met a
man named Mark Mayfield. 4 ½ years later (3 years of being friends
and 1 ½ years dating) we were married. He was the answer to many
prayers. He loves God, he loves me and he promised to love my son as
his own. When we married, we hadn’t decided if we were going to
have children of our own or not. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to
start all over at the age of 36. Mark told me that we should pray
about it and he would be fine with whatever happened. God took care
of the decision for us and blessed us with a honeymoon baby –
Caroline.
Every time I’ve made a hard decision
that I’ve prayed about, God has blessed me beyond what I could have
ever imagined. The most recent was last April when we decided to
leave the church that we had gone to for 14 years. It was a mutual
decision between Mark, Caroline and me. All three of us are thrilled
to be a part of the Crosspoint family and I am so happy to be serving
on the Crosspoint Women’s Team!