His Faithfulness Reaches the Skies



Connor's Creative Art Center in Kumasi, Ghana


While growing up in South Bend, Indiana, surrounded by the comforts of American life, I felt so far removed from the suffering in Africa. However, in one moment, my life was turned upside down. I was faced with a difficult question, “As a follower of Christ, what are you going to do about the suffering children in Africa? “ God impressed this on my heart during a chapel service at Grace College where I heard the testimony of a man from Sudan and saw firsthand the suffering he endured as a child at the hand of genocide. At that moment in 2007, the cries of the children in Africa awakened an ache in my soul. God placed a burden on my heart that is central to His- to “look after orphans in their distress” (James 1:27). As only one person, I thought to myself, what could I possibly do?


After graduating from Grace College in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in drawing/ painting and psychology, God provided me with the opportunity to teach in Ghana for an art/ music camp in 2008 and 2009. These precious children have forever changed my life. I returned to Ghana in 2010 for almost 3 months to teach art, and I knew the Lord was preparing me for long-term missions. I just didn’t know what His specific plan for me was until now. I completed my all grade art teaching license in 2010. Then, in God’s perfect timing, He provided Connor’s Creative Art Center and the beautiful Touch A Life kids that I know and love to care for and teach.


My heart’s passion and prayer for the Touch A Life kids is for each one to intimately know the transforming love of Jesus Christ and to find their identity in Him alone. This message of truth is fueled with passion from my own experience of Jesus making me new and walking my own journey of healing and freedom to a place of wholeness in Christ. I have experienced God’s healing and a deeper intimacy with my Creator through the therapeutic process of art, and that is my desire for the children as well. Connor’s Creative Art Center will provide the children with a fun, safe, and creative place to express themselves through art while allowing them to walk their own journey of God’s healing. As the Art Director, I have the amazing privilege of walking beside each one and helping them on this journey of growth and healing through creative expression.