Hi! You can check out my website at www.jeannie-marie.com. But here's a little about me:

I'm the new author of Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood...and Beyond, published by Thomas Nelson and released last fall 2018.

I've walked across the street in America to welcome international students and refugees, and worked with a community development non-profit, and then at a church mobilizing others to go to the nations. I love to inspire others to get involved with people from other countries and cultures and have a spiritual adventure with Jesus.

I grew up as an expat kid in the Philippines my growing up years, until I came to America for a degree in Communications at Trinity International University. Later, my husband, four children and I moved to live and work in India for a year, and now I travel on short trips overseas a lot to cool places for work, and I often bring a kid or two along.

I'm a strategist for an international sending agency that recruits, trains, and sends long-term global workers to live overseas. I help people make a difference in the world by moving to places of pain, poverty, and people with no access to Jesus Christ and the freedom and peace he offers.

I'm also on the board of directors for Global Adventure Project, a group that places university students in strategic overseas internships, and a non-profit called PathWays to Global Understanding, an off-shoot training course from Worldwide Perspectives.

I live with my husband and four fun children in the sunny suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona. When I'm not reading a book, or dreaming up some idea to change the world, we do a lot of adventurous things outdoors.