Born and raised in southern New Hampshire, I grew up with a loving family and had a great church home. After high school, I enrolled at the University of Massachusetts to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. While finishing my final semester, I was offered a software engineering position at a big high-tech company. The pay was unbelievable and it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. I ended up graduating near the top of my class in college and thought I was all set with my new position in corporate America.

But throughout my college years, the Lord slowly began to move on my heart in deeper ways. I started some small prayer and worship meetings with friends from New Hampshire and the Lord began to breathe on them. It was only a short time after beginning my job in corporate America that I began wondering if I was really supposed to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day for the next 40 years. There was a gnawing on my heart for Jesus, something I now know He put there. So I prayed earnestly for God’s direction and for His will to be done in my life.

After much wondering if anything would ever change, the Lord opened the door for me to attend the “One Thing Internship”, a six-month internship program at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. The internship is focused around the 24/7 prayer room where worship and prayer has ascended before God non-stop since September 1999. Moving halfway across the country seemed like a big step and a foolish decision in the eyes of the world. But in December 2003, I left my well-paying job in corporate America to move to Kansas City.

I knew the Lord was aligning my steps during that season of my life. During the internship, the Lord revealed my calling to me with much clarity. I now know that I am first and foremost an intercessor, called to stand before the Lord and to ask Him for the burdens of His heart – for revival and awakening in our nation and the world, and for the gospel to reach the ends of the earth in power.