Mary Jutila

President

    Craig and I began dating when I was just a Freshman in High School. Eight years, after college, we were married and five years later we were blessed with our twin boys. We then adopted our daughter Karimy, when she was 6 years old and the boys were 7. Craig was working in full time ministry at Saddleback Church, and I was running our curriculum company, Empowered Living and eventually our non-profit company as well. In addition, we were writing curriculum and Craig was speaking. Things got pretty crazy, pretty quick and our marriage was in crisis. If it wasn’t for our wise Christian counselor, loyal friends and God’s mercy combined with hard work and grit on our part, we would have been another statistic of a broken family. But God works all things for good. He prompted us to have courage and share our story with others in ministry. A whole new passion for marriage and healthy families was developed in our hearts and this began the dream of helping others pastors and their families in crisis. We started by writing Hectic to Healthy and then speaking openly about our crazy and what we had learned. We found that the need is immense and so many pastors and their wives feel isolated, hopeless, depressed and used. They give to help others in the church, but who is there to help them when they need it? We want to be there to help point them to God’s truth and empower them to grow through brokenness. Broken is not final, it’s temporary and God will heal your crazy and your broken if you will let Him. We are here to help.

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