About Me

{more Nepali photo shoot pics, here}



Hello there, I’m Katie
And I’m so grateful and honored you are stopping by.
The first thing you should know about me is that I love making new friends,
so please don’t hesitate to say hello:)

I am married to Kevin, and he is my lover through and through.
I choose him every day,
and together we choose Jesus, because without him we are lost. 

{We fell in love through some crazy circumstances, had an epic proposal, then a sweet wedding}

The second thing about me is that I love adventure
and I’m learning to be brave with my life every day.
Below are some of our journeys…

- Kevin and I decided when we started dating that we wanted our marriage to matter and we wanted to serve Jesus as He called us.  This led us to move into a low income neighborhood in our native California. It changed our life and our marriage.  In the process we met some of our best friends, learned so much about different cultural customs, and opened our home to families, children, and new friends. We grew and learned from our amazing neighbors who shaped us and our perspectives in life changing ways. 

 

- Kev and I also prayed that we’d get to serve abroad before we had kids. God totally and completely surprised us December of 2012 when out of the blue an organization contacted us and asked if we’d move to Nepal to do some consulting work for an aftercare home that housed precious girls rescued out of sex trafficking.  So for six month {April- Sept 2013} we spent being utterly transformed by God’s love and the love of the girls in the home. It was epic…we are already yearning to go back.

A few posts from Nepal here, here  here and here. 
*If you are looking for ways to help fight human trafficking, check out my post here.

- Kev and I love to travel, and are always scheming up ways to get our backpacks out and go exploring! We’ve been to almost 40 countries. I taught English in Thailand, worked for a non-profit in Kenya, Kev coached a University Basketball team in Indonesia, and we just recently returned from living in Nepal! Coming back from Nepal we moved to my hometown in Northern California for a month to work on my dad’s rice farm at harvest,

Feel free to check out my travel posts here! 

I love photography and feel that beauty cultivates an environment to live creative and imaginative lives. 

I have a photography business called Hope Photographie…if you are ever in California and want pretty pictures, I'd be honor to capture yours!! 

Lastly, I love to just be real.
This blog while documenting my adventures, also weaves a tale of real life struggles and pain.
Because, let’s face it, we’re real people with real issues.
And that is why my blog is called Hope Engaged, because my hope in Jesus has to be engaged at all times to push me through the hard parts. And it does, for God is so so good.
-My health issues with Lupus {see part 1, and part 2}
- Learning to forgive {here}
-Learning who I am {here}

Recap of our crazy epic year of 2013 here
And 2014 here

Can’t wait to meet you friend,

Love Katie