About Anna
Anna has a rich heritage of faith in her family. Both of her grandfathers were church of Christ preachers, so ministry feels like carrying on the torch. Her mother taught her what servant leadership is and helped her claim the faith as her own at a young age.
Several traumatic events in her teenage and young adult years left Anna riddled with grief, anxiety, and distrust in God. The people who seemed to be perfectly put together at church no longer felt relatable to her. Anna abandoned the faith she once cherished as the questions for God and anger with God became more than she could bear.
After graduating from Harding University with a degree in Interior Design, she moved to Austin, Texas, and fought to make a career and life for herself with her fiance. Heartbreak continued when Anna finally realized her fiance’s addiction was more than she could fix on her own, and in fact, she was enabling him. While calling the wedding off six weeks prior was incredibly hard, the loneliness and soul searching that came next were almost too much to bear. After months of wrestling with God she decided to come back to church. She embraced the mantra “seek with seekers” and started to wholeheartedly seek the Lord again. Maybe she didn’t have all the answers but if she was seeking with other people who were also seeking God, then she knew she would find Him again.
Since returning to faith almost a decade ago, Anna has poured her heart, time, and energy into ministering to women – promoting a culture of vulnerability, honesty, and humility. She served on her church’s Women's Ministry Committee for four years as the education coordinator. She has taught countless classes, shared her own testimony publicly several times, and helped plan and execute many women's events. Anna believes the Lord has placed a calling on her heart to share God’s word with all who will listen through the unique lens God has given her.
She is currently writing a book about the hard-won process of allowing God to define your self-worth.
Anna’s favorite topics to teach on are the ones that have personally challenged her. She has found great solace in studying and teaching on grief through the eyes of Mary of Bethany, prayer through passages of Ephesians, conflict through the letter to the Phillipian church, unwavering faithfulness as demonstrated by Joseph and so many more.
When she isn't teaching, speaking, or writing you can find her at her day job as a full-time commercial interior designer in Austin, Texas, or making memories with her husband, Jay, and sons Titus and Ezra. Anna and Jay worship at the Brentwood Oaks Church of Christ in Austin, Texas.