09/13/2026
🔥ONE YEAR OF UNASHAMED FIRE MINISTRIES.🔥
One year ago today, God decided to give me my purpose.
I’ve never actually shared the full story of how Unashamed Fire Ministries came about, so what better day than today?
I can remember it like it was yesterday.
I was sitting in the car rider line waiting to drop Timber off at school, scrolling through Facebook. With Charlie Kirk’s passing the day before, my feed was filled with people saying things like:
“This has me scared. I need to get my life right.”
“Jesus has to be coming back soon.”
“I’m going to start going back to church.”
“I want to live for God.”
And then I came across one post.
A girl I’m friends with had shared a post that said:
“There’s nobody too bad to get saved.”
And above it, she had written:
“I want to, and I want to get my son baptized!!”
I stopped.
I had seen so many posts that morning. So many people talking about wanting to get right with God. And normally, I probably would have liked the post. Maybe commented something encouraging. Maybe even send them a message.
But this time, I felt the Lord prick my heart.
“How many times are you going to see someone say they want Me, like their post, comment on it, maybe even message them… and then let it end there? It’s time to step up and DO something.”
And y’all, I started talking to God like I was talking to my best friend. 😂
“Okay God… so what do we do?”
“Community baptism.”
And I was like, “Yeah, okay 😂 I think You meant to give that one to somebody else.”
Then I heard it again:
“COMMUNITY BAPTISM.”
So I said, “Okay Lord, let’s just say I do say yes… when?”
“Tomorrow.”
TOMORROW?! 🤣
Now I really thought He had the wrong person.
I called Justin and said, “I know this sounds crazy, but…” and after I told him, he said, “Yes, it sounds crazy. But if that’s what God said, who are we to say no?”
So we said YES.
And God worked out every single detail for us to host our very first community baptism the very next night.
Friday, September 12, 2025.
That first night, 41 people were baptized.
The very next Saturday, 47 more.
And now, one year later, by the power of God, more than 250 people have gone into those waters.
And here’s something I’ve never shared:
That girl has no idea her post was the one God used to start all of this. 🤍
I’ve never told her.
And as of today, I still haven’t had the opportunity to baptize her or her son.
But I pray that one day I will.
I pray there comes a day when I get to stand in that water with the two of them, watch them publicly declare their faith in Jesus, and then finally look at her and say, “Do you know this all started with you?”
Because she thought she was simply sharing a Facebook post.
She had no idea God was using her words to plant something in somebody else.
And neither did I.
Since that first night, I can say with certainty that my life has been changed forever.
God has opened doors I could have never imagined. He has allowed me to minister to men and women of all ages, to watch people surrender their lives to Jesus, to hear testimonies, pray with people, worship with people, and stand beside them as they leave it all in the water.
Every conversation.
Every event.
Every person.
Every baptism.
They each hold a special place in my heart, and I will never be able to thank God enough for allowing me to be a part of it.
But I want to make one thing VERY clear:
Every bit of the honor. Every bit of the glory. Every bit of the credit belongs to JESUS.
I am NOTHING but a willing vessel, and I thank Him every single day for seeing fit to use me to share His Word and help grow His Kingdom.
Thank you to every single person who has supported Unashamed Fire Ministries over this past year—whether through financial support, prayer, volunteering, sharing a post, showing up to an event, filling a baptism tub, carrying supplies, praying over someone, or simply believing in what God was doing.
You are a part of this testimony too.
So here’s to ONE YEAR of Unashamed Fire Ministries. 🔥
I have no idea what God has in store for year two… but if I’ve learned anything from year one, it’s that when He says GO, you go.
Because I keep thinking about that random Thursday morning in the car rider line.
What if I had brushed it off?
What if I had convinced myself I wasn’t qualified?
What if I had decided it was too soon, too crazy, too big, or that surely God meant somebody else?
Obedience matters.
Listening to the voice of God matters.
Your YES matters.
I said yes to a baptism I had less than 24 hours to put together.
God already knew about the 250+ people who would eventually step into the water.
And it all started with one girl sharing one post saying she wanted Jesus and wanted to see her son baptized.
She didn’t know what God was doing through her post.
I didn’t know what God was going to do through my yes.
But God knew the whole time.
So when God tells you to move…
MOVE.
Because someone’s salvation could be on the other end of your YES. 🔥
Happy 1st birthday, Unashamed Fire Ministries.
This fire is still burning. ❤️🔥
*this is the only picture that I took myself from that night! I was standing back for a moment just in AWE of what had happened. 😭
