Our Story
My Story
A Rocky Foundation
I was born and raise in central Pennsylvania. I gave my life to Christ when I was 5 years old. My mother was raised a Independent Baptist Conservative and my Father states that he was Catholic- but while growing up neither of them practiced or participated in church.
God made sure I was still around the church in many different ways- through religious education in elementary school, VBS's, Girl Scouts, and a pen pal who became my best friend for many years- her grandmother would take me to church when I would spend the weekends with them.
When I got to high school, I took part in the Student Christian Bible Club, and had friends who were Christian. I would start attending church with them, mostly non-denominational- but not regularly.
My sophomore year of school, I got invited to go to Europe with People to People Student Ambassadors. Apart of our group was a student that lived in the next town over. As my mother and I were at wal-mart preparing for our trip to Europe, we ran into him and his mom. I learned about a performing arts ministry that was going to be performing at a church right up the street from my home a week later. I attended the performance, and something pulled me to want to join this singing, dancing, theatrical ministry.
So the next 5 years, I became apart of this performing arts ministry- where I went I went into prisons, detention centers, and homeless shelters. I got to experience evangelism in an amazing way- presenting the gospel through the arts. I got to travel all over the Northeast, Tennessee, Chicago, and Puerto Rico. Through the ministry I became a standing attendant of their non-denominational church, became active as a leader in their children's ministry- where I still got to use creativity. Throughout these early years, no one ever taught me about the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I did so much ministry in prisons, that I also didn't know I was a prisoner myself.
Because of this rocky foundation and the emotional bondage I was in- carrying guilt, shame, rejection, fear, anger- it lead me to search for love in other places.
During my last year of ministry, I was already starting college, then switched to massage therapy school. After massage therapy school, I met a guy on the internet, which then thrusted me to New Jersey. All of Christianity went out the window. These were more of my dark ages of really not knowing God and the importance of having a relationship with Him.
After several years of being in New Jersey- going through relationship to relationship- God sent a deliverance minister into my business. She would talk about demons and deliverance, which was not in my paradigm. Every session she would talk more and more about spiritual things, that was nothing I ever heard about. Finally, she brought me through her deliverance ministry- where I got set free. This is the first time I heard the voice of God- and how He speaks through me, but still didn't have a complete understanding. A month later, she told me that her church was starting a Wednesday night series "Identity in Christ" and that I should go. It would be helpful for me. That was the beginning of coming back into the church. Through the church, I then began learning, and understanding more of the Holy Spirit. I went through emotional healing (sozo) healing to heal the wounds of my heart.
It was at the church in New Jersey where I learned about flag worship. I would attend the House of Prayer that shared the space as my church. I got intrigued by seeing the dancers with flags. So I ordered my first set- and got them white so I could dye them myself- because I learned that through Girl Scouts. I began using my flags, under the unction of the Holy Spirit who helped a lot.
After going through deliverance and emotional healing- God sent me back to Pennsylvania where I had to walk out my healing process. During this time, I was not in the best financial place to keep paying for more sets of flags. This lead me on a journey on learning how to make them. I had taken sewing classes in high school, and I even had my own sewing machine. Through prayer and research, I learned where to find all the materials, and how to make them. One flag. lead to another flag... and it was these early seeds that started to grow this business.
THE SEED
During my time back in Pennsylvania, I was paired up with a friend who helped raise my prophetic gifting. We went on adventures, which had lead to Michigan. I met another woman who later became a friend and carrier of a seed. I had prophesied to her that she would be moving to the East Coast.. and a few months later she ended up in Maryland. I went and visited her- and during that trip she gave me a prophetic word, not knowing I had started making worship flags.
She saw these beautiful tapestries hanging on a wall, and they were hand painted. She said that people will purchase these tapestries for a lot of money because of the stories of people's freedom in Christ that they would carry. She saw kids and adults waving these flags. Then the Lord dropped a song into her spirit- the lyrics below.
"When I get older I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
But violent prone, poor people zone
But it's my home, all I have known
Where I got grown, streets we would roam
Out of the darkness, I came the farthest
Among the hardest survival
Learn from these streets, it can be bleak
Accept no defeat, surrender, retreat
So we struggling, fighting to eat
And we wondering when we'll be free
So we patiently wait for that fateful day
It's not far away, but for now we say"
Wavin' Flag by K'naan
This prophetic word lead me to learn how to paint on silk. I picked up a projector and fabric markers and made my first design on silk. I made a comment to Jesus- if I am going to making these tapestries, there has to be a better way than fabric markers- and spending a lot of time and hand muscle cramps to do this. It lead me on a path to discover silk painting. The process has been wonderful to get to what you see now.
My first silk painting tapestry is the one that you see at the top- which is several prophetic words in my life all rolled into one. So I currently make prophetic tapestries, until I start getting stories of people's freedom- which is coming.
Until then, Flag On!
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