Lois

It is such a gift that Kathy and I can work together to bring Creative Cottage to you!   For some background, we grew up in a home where  creativity was encouraged, practiced and celebrated!  I think our childhood was the beginning inspiration God used for Creative Cottage!   As a teen, I sensed a disconnect between the beauty, design and order all around me in the world and the belief that it was all here by chance...that just didn't make sense.   I learned that there was a creator God!   I received the free gift of God of salvation through Jesus Christ.   Everything about life was starting to make sense and have purpose.  My life was wonderfully changed forever as I gave Him my life!   (If you would like to know more, click  here to visit our LIFE! page!)

Now married, our family has moved numerous times over the years.   I know how important it is to find community from personal experience!  My husband's pastoral responsibilities have always centered around helping people know Jesus, grow in their faith and finding Biblical community.   I have loved opening my home creating space and opportunities for others for life giving community.  I benefited too!   I have developed wonderful friendships along the way!    In one community this also involved doing creative, fun and purposeful things with other women.   This was the time when the vision and beginning blueprints of Creative Cottage were forming in my mind.  

Recently my husband and I moved back to Florida.   I believe the Lord put Creative Cottage on my heart again for such a time as this.   Our world has changed in recent years and we've almost  lost something very important....doing life together!  Our hope is that instead of women feeling isolated,  a revived movement of creative, purposeful, fun,  life giving hospitality will  spread near and far!  We also pray that women will know how much God loves them, and will grow in their relationship with Jesus.  Kathy and I are here to help!  The blueprints for Creative Cottage are drawn. the foundation laid, and building is underway!  Won't you join us? 

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.   Day after day they pour forth speech;  night after night they reveal knowledge.   ~Psalm 19:1 & 2

Kathy

The year 2023 was pivotal in my life. After many years of teaching and living most of my life in Southwest Florida, my husband and I moved to a small town in South Georgia.  This monumental change occured suddenly and rapidly over four months!  It was clear that God was leading and strengthening us, but this was all new territory…an empty slate…a blank canvas.  Psalm 92:12-15 has been, and continues to be, my prayer during this time.  “The righteous man will flourish (literally: sprout) like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”  Have you ever seen how a palm tree sprouts new branches? They point straight up to Heaven! Cedars in Lebanon grow very tall and I imagine their roots grow deep, too!  Yes, Lord Jesus, yes!!!  That’s what I want!  But how can this happen when it seems like my life has been pulled up by the roots?

I believe Creative Cottage is one way the Lord is answering this prayer. In 2025, my sister Lois shared her desire to create a ministry for women inviting me to come alongside her in the work of bringing Creative Cottage to life!  Verse 15 is being fulfilled: “To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”  He is my firm foundation and so, so good to me!  Creative Cottage helps me rediscover and share my creative identity as a child of God, connect with my sweet twin sister in new and meaningful ways, and bless women with creative fellowship and my community with the love of Jesus!  ...What a gift!