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Emma is the Woman's Ministry Leader of Calvary Chapel Windsor.
She also serves as the Sunday morning Prayer Team Leader.
She has been serving in her current role since September of 2023.
I was born in Denver, but we moved to Loveland when I was just one month old, and I have lived there ever since. I grew up in a Christian home with five other siblings where we went to church almost every Sunday, and we prayed before our meals, and prayed at bedtime, but that was the extent of it. I would often see my dad reading the Bible, but he never shared with us anything he read. For as long as I can remember I had always believed in Jesus, but I did not have a personal relationship with Him, and I didn’t regularly read the Bible.
As a teenager, I followed the example of two of my older brothers and lived out a partying lifestyle.
At the age of eighteen I had my daughter out of wedlock with just a partying boyfriend – which of course did not last. Not long after that I lost one of my brothers in a car accident. That, I believe, began my seeking after God—but I did not surrender fully to Him; for even though I was taking good care of my daughter, the weekends were still filled with to much of what did not give life. After that I met my now ex-husband who I had another two boys with, and then we were married, but still did not attend church.
When my daughter was five years old, she was invited to a birthday party at a friend’s house. There, I met a woman who shared Jesus with me. She had such a deep love for God’s Word, and she began pouring into my life. Through her influence and faithfulness in sharing the scriptures with me, I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and immediately developed a hunger for God’s Word and began studying the Bible for myself.
The first Bible I had after that was a Hebrew/Greek King James version study Bible, and by the grace of God I understood it, which I know was definitely the Holy Spirit who helped me to do so. And that also gave me my love for studying the Hebrew and Greek definitions of words—I am so thankful that God graced me with a strong desire to spend a lot of quality time studying and learning the Bible. To this day, my grown children tell me they remember coming downstairs each morning and finding me on the couch surrounded by Bibles, my Strong’s Concordance, different commentaries, and my journals as I spent time with the Lord. They often tell me how those memories have influenced their own lives and faith, for which I am deeply grateful.
I thank God every day for His life giving, living Word, for when my greatest challenge in life came, He was very evident in my life throughout all of the heartache and pain— when my daughter was in junior high, I found out that my now ex-husband had not only had multiple affairs with other women, but had also sexually abused my daughter (his stepdaughter-from the time she was 9 years old until she was 12), but it was after the fact that I found out when she went to a counselor at her school. As you can imagine that wrecked my world. There's way too much to share–but after seeking the Lord during this long season, there was no fruit of repentance in my ex’s life for the great devastation that he caused, and we were divorced. I moved out and the healing began.
In the years that followed, God was so faithful to continue to pour into me His life-giving Word. He bound up my broken heart for my daughter, although it is still very painful if thought about, and He promised me throughout His Word that He would heal her heart also and cause her to flourish, which I have witnessed throughout the years. For what the enemy meant to harm us and utterly destroy us, God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.(Gen. 50:20).
Through a living relationship with God and His Word, He has taken every hurtful thing in my life and turned it into nourishment. Life with Him has caused me to grow into the person who He created me to be; to be one who nourishes others with His life-giving Word, and disciples them to grow in the knowledge of God, which is my heartbeat now.
JUMPING FORWARD: –after 3 1/2 years of being single, God brought Dave into my life. I remained single for those years because I was not going to settle. I really wanted the fairytale ending—in 2025 Dave kissed his late wife goodbye, and went to the fire station and she passed away, without going into all of that story, I met him six months later, and we talked that evening about her passing, and about the Lord and His faithfulness in walking us through really hard things—and after that evening I began to pray for him and his sons – which then turned into a beautiful friendship, and we were married six months after that. I cannot put into words the gift that he is. We will be married 20 years this year in September. Together we have 5 children and 13 beautiful grandchildren, the last 2 are identical twin boys to be born probably in October. We also are very entertained by our dog Charis who is pictured above, she’s just the best!
In conclusion – I have been a student of the Word for almost 39 years now, and I led a ladies Bible study in my home for 15 years called GROW, which stands for Greater Revelation Of the Word — because I believe that when we get a greater revelation of the Word, who is Jesus – we will grow. And then the Lord gave me a beautiful opportunity to become the women’s ministry leader here at Calvary Chapel Windsor. I am humbled every day that He called me to minister to others and to teach His Word for such a time as this. I love this ministry that He has called me into, for again I love to share His Word, and to teach from His Word, and to pour out His love onto others. I also love mentoring the ones He has brought into my life – because when He came and touched my heart and taught me His Word, I knew that that was my calling from Him: to teach His Word, and to touch other hearts with the things that He has taught me in His Word over the years -- I so love Him with all of my heart, and I pray every day that I would make Him smile.
One of my favorite scriptures is 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
As a teenager, I followed the example of two of my older brothers and lived out a partying lifestyle.
At the age of eighteen I had my daughter out of wedlock with just a partying boyfriend – which of course did not last. Not long after that I lost one of my brothers in a car accident. That, I believe, began my seeking after God—but I did not surrender fully to Him; for even though I was taking good care of my daughter, the weekends were still filled with to much of what did not give life. After that I met my now ex-husband who I had another two boys with, and then we were married, but still did not attend church.
When my daughter was five years old, she was invited to a birthday party at a friend’s house. There, I met a woman who shared Jesus with me. She had such a deep love for God’s Word, and she began pouring into my life. Through her influence and faithfulness in sharing the scriptures with me, I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and immediately developed a hunger for God’s Word and began studying the Bible for myself.
The first Bible I had after that was a Hebrew/Greek King James version study Bible, and by the grace of God I understood it, which I know was definitely the Holy Spirit who helped me to do so. And that also gave me my love for studying the Hebrew and Greek definitions of words—I am so thankful that God graced me with a strong desire to spend a lot of quality time studying and learning the Bible. To this day, my grown children tell me they remember coming downstairs each morning and finding me on the couch surrounded by Bibles, my Strong’s Concordance, different commentaries, and my journals as I spent time with the Lord. They often tell me how those memories have influenced their own lives and faith, for which I am deeply grateful.
I thank God every day for His life giving, living Word, for when my greatest challenge in life came, He was very evident in my life throughout all of the heartache and pain— when my daughter was in junior high, I found out that my now ex-husband had not only had multiple affairs with other women, but had also sexually abused my daughter (his stepdaughter-from the time she was 9 years old until she was 12), but it was after the fact that I found out when she went to a counselor at her school. As you can imagine that wrecked my world. There's way too much to share–but after seeking the Lord during this long season, there was no fruit of repentance in my ex’s life for the great devastation that he caused, and we were divorced. I moved out and the healing began.
In the years that followed, God was so faithful to continue to pour into me His life-giving Word. He bound up my broken heart for my daughter, although it is still very painful if thought about, and He promised me throughout His Word that He would heal her heart also and cause her to flourish, which I have witnessed throughout the years. For what the enemy meant to harm us and utterly destroy us, God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.(Gen. 50:20).
Through a living relationship with God and His Word, He has taken every hurtful thing in my life and turned it into nourishment. Life with Him has caused me to grow into the person who He created me to be; to be one who nourishes others with His life-giving Word, and disciples them to grow in the knowledge of God, which is my heartbeat now.
JUMPING FORWARD: –after 3 1/2 years of being single, God brought Dave into my life. I remained single for those years because I was not going to settle. I really wanted the fairytale ending—in 2025 Dave kissed his late wife goodbye, and went to the fire station and she passed away, without going into all of that story, I met him six months later, and we talked that evening about her passing, and about the Lord and His faithfulness in walking us through really hard things—and after that evening I began to pray for him and his sons – which then turned into a beautiful friendship, and we were married six months after that. I cannot put into words the gift that he is. We will be married 20 years this year in September. Together we have 5 children and 13 beautiful grandchildren, the last 2 are identical twin boys to be born probably in October. We also are very entertained by our dog Charis who is pictured above, she’s just the best!
In conclusion – I have been a student of the Word for almost 39 years now, and I led a ladies Bible study in my home for 15 years called GROW, which stands for Greater Revelation Of the Word — because I believe that when we get a greater revelation of the Word, who is Jesus – we will grow. And then the Lord gave me a beautiful opportunity to become the women’s ministry leader here at Calvary Chapel Windsor. I am humbled every day that He called me to minister to others and to teach His Word for such a time as this. I love this ministry that He has called me into, for again I love to share His Word, and to teach from His Word, and to pour out His love onto others. I also love mentoring the ones He has brought into my life – because when He came and touched my heart and taught me His Word, I knew that that was my calling from Him: to teach His Word, and to touch other hearts with the things that He has taught me in His Word over the years -- I so love Him with all of my heart, and I pray every day that I would make Him smile.
One of my favorite scriptures is 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.