In the spring of 1989 I came limping into Faith Assembly in need of healing in my spirit.  Back then Mark and Kristy Schaufler were my next door neighbors.  One afternoon Kristy and I were visiting with each other at the fence separating our backyards.  I was weeping and she was feeling my pain.  She encouraged me to come to Faith Assembly with my children and just sit. The first morning I came here, I knew I was home.  I knew that God had given me this beautiful church as a gift for my healing and His good pleasure. 

As the months passed, Christ poured His life into my life. The kindnesses and affirmations of His body at this church, coupled with scripture and prayer, brought wholeness.  And now, 18 years later, a different kind of disease attacks me.  Before it was cancer of my spirit, now it is cancer of my physical body.  But this church is as strong now as it was then.  It continues to move, alive and active.  Once again the saints here rise up to fight for one of their own.  I know that prayers are being prayed, scriptures are being claimed and the love of Christ comes bursting through in my life. 

I fell in love with the body of Christ at Faith Assembly of Lacey those 18 years ago and I am still in love.  My experience here has changed my life, given me ministry opportunities and connected me to a community of friends.