Hello You.

Nice to meet you!  My name is Grace.  The one who got this blog going.  Thanks for stopping by!

So, what’s this blog about?

My honest, authentic, sometimes humorous, painfully vulnerable -yet grace-filled- views on the way I’m figuring out my life, my faith, & the culture around me as a black, Christian wife, mama, minister, writer & grad student.  This blog talks about race relations, fashion, my book & movie reviews, the occasional dip into politics or world issues, & how I’m managing to pull my life together as I try to walk the path God has laid out for me.

Who exactly are you, grace?

Well, besides being a wife, home-owner and mom, an InterVarsity staff-worker, a graduate student, speaker, writer & blogger I choose to spend any spare time I get reading, journaling, watching my two favorite T.V. shows (Lost & Project Runway), watching movies, endlessly checking facebook and dabbling in art of many sorts including scrap-booking, make-up, hair, fashion & photography.

Still want more?  Then, let’s just start from the beginning shall we?  My mother is a beautiful Italian woman and my father was African American, which means I am a “fearfully & wonderfully made” mixed up child.    Over the course of several years, many tears & lots of journaling prayers I determined I am proud of who I am both as a white woman and a black woman.  I’ll never understand what it means to be fully white, nor fully black, but I am content in being fully me without trying to be 1/2 this & 1/2 that.  Got that?  I am proud to say I was born & raised in the great city of Detroit. I  attended local Christian schools and wound up at Henry Ford Community College for a few years.  At 19, I made the best decision I’ve ever made in my entire life: I decided I wanted to trust Jesus -who he is & what he said about himself- and give my life to following him in every way possible.

My next steps included going to Wayne State University in Downtown Detroit where I received a fabulous education in Speech Communications.  I decided to bring in the new century by marking several milestones off my list: marriage, moving & graduating.  In May 2000 I married my best friend, Dave Biskie.  After the Disney World Honeymoon, I moved across the state from Detroit to a W. MI city to begin my career as a Campus Staff Member with a large non-profit organization called InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Western Michigan University.    In December of 2000 I graduated from Wayne State University.

For the past 7 years, Dave & I have been working together to build a relevant evangelical community amongst the African-American black student population at Western Michigan University.  In the Fall of 2003, a new InterVarsity Chapter was born: Collegiate, Black & Christian which has churned out high quality, transformed students who will change the world around them.  Another aspect of my job in which I greatly enjoy is public speaking, training, discipleship, leading small groups & writing.  Thankfully, ministry gives me the opportunity to do all of these things.  I have also been blessed to enjoy many different regional & national roles to promote black campus ministry all over the U.S.

Currently, I serve as the Regional Black Campus Ministries Coordinator for the Great Lakes East Region of InterVarsity which includes MI, OH, W. PA & W. VA.

In the Fall of 2007 I began work on a Masters of Divinity at a fantastic place, Western Theological Seminary. When I eventually graduate I’ll be an ordained Minister of the Gospel in the Reformed Church of America Denomination. When Sunday rolls around, our family attends The River Church where my hubby & I lead a small group.

In 2005, my husband & I, and our two troublesome cats, Little Jerri Seinfeld & Putty welcomed our beautiful son, Ransom into our home.  Baby #2 is to set to make his big debut in October 2009.