Welcome!

I’m so happy you are here! Welcome to Gardening & The Gospel! My name is Kayla. I am a mama of three and happily married to my husband, Wes. I am a former doula with 10 years experience of supporting hundreds of families as they welcomed their babies into the world. Through my doula work I have walked alongside women in their most vulnerable and difficult moments in life; supporting them, caring for them, loving on them, being a safe place for them and encouraging them through it all. I have learned that birth work is not for the faint of heart. Through birth work God completely unravelled my heart and knit it back together again.

“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”

Psalm 16:11

I have always loved women’s ministry and have always had a huge heart for serving other sisters in Christ. But God recently revealed to me that I needed to let go of my doula business. Yep you read that right. Slowly month by month for a full year God uprooted things in my heart that kept me tied and holding onto my doula business. It was my baby. I had built my business from the ground up. I had to learn so many new skills, climb huge mountains to get to where I was. I put so much of my time and energy into it and was thriving in my business but my heart and soul were beginning to lack. I was putting everything I had into my business, not caring for myself or my family well. Eventually God said to me, “Your business was your success not mine.” Ummmm ….ouch! As much as that hurt to hear, it was the truth. And not long after that ouch moment with God did the Lord place on my heart a very strong desire to share the gospel with and encourage as many women as I could. There was an urgency the Lord placed on my heart with it that I could not shake. I continued to pray over what was next. I had felt the pull back to ministry for some time but had no idea what that would be. I had gone to school to be a pastor and had worked in the church and for a non profit for a short period of time before I started having my babies. So it was no surprise to me that I was feeling that pull back to ministry. But what would it look like? How on earth would I share the gospel with as many women as possible. I felt a little lost having to start over. What would I do and how? Even my family was questioning my decision. But as I waited and prayed I continued to have the words, “You already know how to do it,” come into my head over and over and over again. And then it hit me; my doula business. I had learned SO many new skills when starting up my doula business that could overflow into an online women’s ministry. I had just spent months questioning God, “Why would you let me waste 10 years of my life on that if I wasn’t meant to do it forever.” And He continued to respond in His kindness and loving ways with, “Nothing is ever wasted.”

And then Gardening & The Gospel was birthed. It’s not much yet and starting over feels like the most daunting thing in the world but I realized if I did an online women’s ministry I could reach a lot more women through simple things like a website and social media. So here we are. Starting fresh. Sharing encouraging words from the Bible to as many women who will read it. So welcome to Gardening & The Gospel. My prayer is that you are encouraged by the word, that you learn and grow in your faith and become deeply rooted in Christ.

With love,
Kayla