About the Author: Stephanie Lobdell

Stephanie Lobdell is a pastor and writer whose work has been published in Christianity Today, Women Leaders, Mutuality, Holiness Today, and Missio Alliance. She graduated from MidAmerica Nazarene University with degrees in Christian Education and Spanish and holds an M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary. She has served a co-lead pastor with her husband for the past ten years in the Church of the Nazarene. Lobdell now lives in Ohio with her husband, Tommy, and two children, Josephine and Jack, where is the Campus Pastor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. She blogs at www.stephanielobdell.com.