About
In 2015, God spoke a promise to Emily that began with a career change and the opening of a ministry with a storefront, Adored Boutique. In 2018, Emily established Designed To Be Ministries, which included a 2-year course designed to increase the intimacy of the participant’s relationship with Jesus and call them up into the authority Jesus died to give the Church. Today, Designed To Be Ministries specializes in speaking, executive prayer coaching, and personal prayer coaching. In 2024, Emily published her first book, When Jesus Shows Up In Skinny Jeans. Emily's book contains the course content–focusing on the power of Emily’s testimony of God’s faithfulness to take her from a place of knowing about Jesus to knowing Jesus intimately. She provides audiences with compelling testimony of her personal, and vulnerable, experience with God and how a single "yes" can ignite a commitment to not just observe God through a lens of religion but to experience Jesus and the Holy Spirit through the lens of an intimate relationship.
Emily is wife to Rolf, mother to Hannah and Rylan, and a dog mom. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Adored Boutique is located. She loves homemade chocolate chip cookies and taking a good hike on a sunny day.
Statement of Faith
I find it helpful to be able to read a writer or speaker's Statement of Faith and/or Belief, which is why I am including mine here for you. The words I share, I share from a place of the love of Jesus as He has shown me. My faith and my beliefs are deeply held. I will not agree to sacrifice truth on the altar of public opinion or change God's Holy Word to satisfy culture, feelings, or desires of the age. Truth is truth. It is not relative. It does not change over time. The Bible is as true and foundational today as it was in days past, as it will be in days to come. I am so grateful that God’s word is alive and does not change.
Statement of Belief
- I believe there is one and only one path to salvation and eternal life: Jesus.
- I believe baptism is an outward proclamation of an inward change, not required for salvation but commanded by Christ.
- I believe marriage is a sacred covenant, created by God, intended to be between one man and one woman.
- I believe in the sanctity of all human life.
- I believe life begins at conception and that abortion is murder of the innocent.
- I believe all followers of Jesus, including women, are called to be disciples and make disciples.
- I believe women are called to share the Gospel in a variety of ways, through many different types of ministries and church service both inside and outside of their homes, including but not limited to preaching, teaching, and worship.
- I believe women share in and can contribute from all the same spiritual gifts men do. These gifts are given by the Holy Spirit and differ from person to person, by God's choice.
- I believe Israel remains God's chosen people, and that the Christian Church is grafted in.
- I believe in the proper handling/interpretation of the Scriptures and the importance of committing time and intention to study the Bible, not to learn about ourselves, but to learn about the One True and Living God.
- I believe in the pre-Tribulation Rapture of the church and am living in joyful expectation of it.
- I believe in Jesus' premillennial Second Coming when He will establish God’s kingdom of righteousness and peace on the earth.
- I believe Hell is a real place in which the unsaved suffer the consequences of refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
- I believe salvation is a free gift. You cannot earn it. You don't deserve it. Neither do I.