I started Faith and Spoons because I was passionate about things and they needed a place. An outlet. 

I have/had been walking a faith walk for years, theology studies, volunteering in ministry opportunities, leadership in the church. But church, has become more about busy, and making sure the church has a big enough bank account and less about faith, less about Jesus, and even less about community. 

Some churches, don't even know what their communities look like outside the building. (Nor do they want to!)

I realized, that was a church, I didn't want to be a part of. 

But I realized, the church didn't really want me either. They wanted the me that checked off the boxes, and did all the things that needed doing. But not the part of me that wanted to go out into the community.  To do the work. To be with the people. To reach out, instead of expecting people to come to us. 

Their way of being  and doing church works for one kind of person. But what about the rest of us?

And so became Faith and Spoons. 

My Story

Faith and Spoons, was chosen because they're two of the biggest parts of my life. I am disabled and chronically ill, but I am also very spiritual and faith never seems to let me go.

Even when I try. 

Which I have, a great many times. 

Disabled Doesn't Make Anyone Less.. 

The world we live in does a good job of trying to make disabled people feel like less. Forcing disabled people into a small box that they believe we should stay in. 

That box is often  a life of poverty. Of being told to be grateful for what we get and not to demand anything more. 

Except I don't work that way. 

I must have missed the memo because I am the thorn in the side of people who believe that I should be quiet. To not take up space. To exist in and of the world alongside everyone else. 

Jesus, didn't heal first. He LOVED first, and so should we.