My life growing up was full of pain and brokenness. I lived in a home where multiple types of abuse were constant, including verbal and emotional abuse. My father committed suicide when I was 10 months old. It was engrained in me to know how bad of a man he was to my mother and oldest sister, it felt like, every day of my life. I was reminded often of how I wasn’t good enough and how I wouldn’t b ..read more

In October 2021 the company I had been working for the past 20 years had announced they were selling to a big corporate company. While it made me nervous, I thought it would be no big deal. As the months went by, we would attend several meetings to go over the plans and the changes that would be made. During this time is when I realized this was not going to be a good change and that the owners th ..read more

I came to Amarillo 2 years ago. After 2 months of “church shopping” God clearly pointed me to the Loft through my Mom. She sent me a link to their website and I decided to go check it out. From the moment I walked in, I felt the love of Christ all around me through the people that greeted me and got to know me. It has been a crazy 2 years after moving 1000 miles away from home and family back in ..read more

My testimony is something I used to never talk about. I used to feel unworthy and judged because of it and I felt like a failure. But I have learned that God puts us through things for a reason and my journey has not been easy but so worth it! My testimony started July 25th, 2018. Infertility is the hardest thing I have ever been through. It’s mentally draining, depressing, and physically hard on my body and mind. It hasn’t been easy and at times I would question God wondering “why me?” “Why can’t I have a child but others can?” Without God I would have never been able to get through any of ..read more

Three years ago, Ray and I started going to the Loft Church. I had faithfully attended a mega church here in town for 10 plus years. The reason I changed churches was because I always said “if I died tomorrow I want my pastor to know my name, who I was”. Ray and I stepped into the Loft Church on January 5, 2020, and we never looked back. We knew we were home. Saying we love our church family is an understatement to say the least. I can’t say I know every single persons name that crosses that threshold but I can say I love every heart and soul that makes up my church family. Ray and I have ..read more

Trusting God.   Anyone who knows me, knows, I am a worker. I was raised to be a hard worker. To show up and work each day and to be on time. For every job I have held I have always found myself moving to the top in a management role. For over twenty years I have had 2 jobs that I held the same fields. I was either a Production Manager or a Maintenance Manager. These were jobs that most people would like to have. Good money and good benefits and paid time off. Over the last five years, and especially during Covid I was drained. I worked ALL the time. If you have been there or are there ..read more

Let me tell you about the redemption love of Jesus in my life. 16 years ago I found myself addicted to drugs. I would ask the Lord every day; to please deliver me from this addiction. I was totally lost. Hurting and devastated over losing my grandmother. You see I was raised in church all my life. All I knew was Jesus; I just didn't know him as my Savior yet. I was a hot mess, everything I had ever disliked I turned into! I was sitting there broken wondering how I was gonna get out of this mess...Then God...You see my mom has always rescued me out of every bad choice I have ever had ever mad ..read more

GOD is always faithful, no matter how faithful we are.  HE is always there ready to direct and encourage us.  Lately, GOD has been showing me (through HIS WORD), that all we have (I mean everything) is a gift from HIM.  If we really look into HIS word, we realize HE gives us the gift of grace (Eph 2:8), the gift of salvation (Eph 2:8), the gift of faith (Eph 2:8), the gift of wisdom (James 1:5), the gift of eternal life (Rom 6:23), the gift of the air we breathe and the food we eat.  James 1:16-18 recently touched my heart and HE allowed me to realize just how good GOD is ..read more

The Lord has been reminding me of the words He put on my heart at the beginning of this year, surrender and obedience. Surrendering control is what the Lord is sweetly reminding me of in this season. “How will these tasks get done without me?”, “But what if this new opportunity doesn’t work out?”, “Is God really calling me to this?” are a few questions I’ve asked myself lately. Fear is what was driving these questions and thoughts. Fear of failure, fear of not being able to provide for my family financially, fear of missing what could be, and the big one of fear of letting people down. The s ..read more

What is God doing in my life? For a while now God has been talking to me and showing me through different situations how to fully trust him and worship him through all circumstances. That message was fully driven home recently. When the tornados hit Perryton, Tx recently I was devastated. This was my hometown where I was born and raised. I had only just moved from there to Amarillo 2 years ago. My son, other family members,  and dear friends still reside there. We loaded up our truck and headed to Perryton the very next morning to help our family. No one was hurt, and my son’s house mad ..read more