Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to serve God.  I remember playing "nun" when I was seven years old with my mother's slip on my head, trying to force my little bother to be the altar boy.  When I grew up, I went to Bible College with dreams of saving the world.  While at Bible College, I and my best friend Christine would dream of the ways that the Lord would use us, and even came up with a name for the ministry we one day hoped to have- "In-Step Ministries".  After we graduated, Christine moved on to other things, and I, well, I fell away from the Lord.

Years later, after I rededicated my life to the Lord, I met and married Rich Campbell, who also graduated from Bible College.  He too had big dreams of how God would use him, but he never went into full time ministry.  We both knew in our hearts that God had a calling and a purpose for our lives, but now life was different.  After several years, we were blessed with children, and we focused on providing for our family, and paying a mortgage, and we put thoughts of ministry on the back burner.  Occasionally we would do a skit at church when we could fit it in, but there was no time for dreams anymore.

Little by little, the Holy Spirit began to tug at our hearts.  Equally, both Rich and I felt it.  We began to get more involved at church, and pray, and seek God, and God renewed our calling.  It was undeniable. 

I had to do something.   I remembered my original dream in Bible College.  I had always wanted to be involved in Christian drama. When God first touched my heart with the message that I was to use my gifts and talents to tell, the words God spoke to me were, "Tell them I love them".  I also remembered that many years earlier, when I was actually living in sin and away from the Lord, I heard about a love story in the Old Testament book of Hosea about how the prophet redeemed Gomer, a prostitute, from her life of sin, just as Jesus redeemed us.  What better story to start with than a story of God's redeeming love?

Rich and I decided that Christian theater was the direction we should go in, so I began to give God my lunch hour.

While working for a bank, I would sit in my car on my lunch break, holding a pad of paper and a pen, and wait for God to speak to me.  Some days I wrote nothing.  Some days I wrote only a few words.  Yet, I was obedient every day, and after about a year, the script of "The Story of Gomer" was complete.  Now we just needed a name for our ministry.

Memories of In-Step Ministries came flooding back.  Actually, I think Rich was the one who suggested it.  Could it be that the dream never died?  Could it be that God could still use us?  We decided to go with the name of In-Step Ministries,  and got our first booking for the play at our home church for the ladies Spring Fling in March of 2004.  The play "The Story of Gomer" was a success, and we had fourteen bookings in our first year.   As our first year in ministry came to a close, we were forced to make an agonizing decision.  Having used all our vacation time for our first bookings, we had to choose whether to go forward with the ministry, or stay in our comfort zone and put the call of God on the back burner again.  From my own words of a skit called "Philip's Basket", I read the line, "I could never live in the shadow of what might have been, I had to walk forward.  Rich and I knew that was our answer.  No regrets.  We left our home in Nashville, left our jobs, our friends, our life, and even though most everyone thought we were crazy, we gave everything we had to follow the path that God had set before us.

Today, the "Story of Gomer" has been performed over 100 times across the country in churches, prisons, and conferences, and most recently across the globe in Amsterdam, Holland.  The script is presently being translated into its third language, and there are plans to develop the script into a full length musical.   

We could never have known at the time, the fullness of the meaning of the name God had given us for our ministry.  Just recently, God has begun to reveal that traveling with "Gomer" was what He used to help us understand how to get a ministry up and running, and all the hard work and sacrifice that go into a life surrendered to God's will.   Rich and I are still learning, but we have truly grown in our understanding of what it means to keep in-step with the Lord.  We understand what it is to serve, and to be obedient, no matter what the cost. 

Our passion is to help others get in-step with the call of God in their lives.  We are currently developing programs and materials to present to churches and organizations that will ignite the call of God in each person's life, and give them courage to take the first step.  We also want to be the people who come along side those who are already serving, and help them "keep going" when they want to quit.  Our mission is that no one lives with regrets.  Our mission is to mobilize the army of the Lord.  Our mission is to live up to our name, and our ministry verse.  Galatians 5:25.  "Since we by the Spirit, let us keep in-step with the Spirit."   Our hope is that we can give energy to your foot steps as we walk this road of Christian service together.