Why This Community Exists, Who I’m Becoming, and Who I’m Here to Help Welcome to Faith ICU Before I teach anything, I want to introduce myself honestly. Not from a stage. Not from a position of having arrived. But as someone still walking through healing. This community was born out of pain, disappointment, spiritual drift, ministry loss, divorce, fear, and a deep longing to know Jesus again. And if I’m honest… This community exists because I needed it myself. PART 1: My Story — What Broke I loved Jesus deeply. From the time I was about 14 years old until my mid-30s, ministry was not something I did—it was something I loved. I loved: - preparing content - creating experiences - helping people encounter God - teaching truth - seeing lives transformed Transformation mattered deeply to me. Then life happened. Divorce. Loss. Disappointment. Fear. Ministry collapse. And if I’m honest, something in my faith got wounded. I didn’t walk away from God. But I drifted. Something changed. And for years, I quietly wrestled with questions like: What happened to me? Why didn’t my faith hold? Why did suffering expose things I didn’t know were weak? **PART 2: What I’m Beginning to Understand** Looking back, I can now see something important. I knew a lot about: who I am in Christ But I was not deeply grounded in: who Christ is Especially in His present-day ministry. I loved Jesus. But I’m not sure I deeply knew Him in the way suffering demanded. I knew ministry. I knew transformation. But when life hit hard, I realized: My ministry formation had outpaced my Christ formation. That realization changed everything. **PART 3: The Hebrews Revelation** God has been gracious. Over time, He began drawing me into the Book of Hebrews. And honestly? It feels like the book I didn’t know I desperately needed. Because Hebrews is written to wounded, discouraged, struggling believers. People under pressure. People drifting. People questioning. People tired. And the answer Hebrews keeps giving is not: