Your Suffering Matters More Than You Know
Depression Ministry exists for those who long to be understood and struggle with 'why' — because God has not abandoned you in your despair.
Our Mission
To care for those struggling with depression and identify how God uses it for spiritual growth.
Romans 5:3-5
Our Vision
To use the growth we experience through our pain to demonstrate the unique love of Jesus through grace, compassion, and empathy.
James 1:2-4
Our Goals
- To honor the greatest commandment: love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, and minds.
- To practice the second greatest commandment: love others through the actions we take despite at times struggling to love ourselves.
- To help those in the midst of despair find ways they can turn suffering into a benefit for others.
- To help loved ones understand what depression feels like from the inside, so they are better equipped to care for those they love.
- To bring a measure of peace to Christians experiencing mental illness in recognizing that while our desire to be healed is valid, God has plans for the pain He allows in our lives.
The Story Behind Depression Ministry
I don't want to do this. I have fought embarking on this for a long time. But I ultimately decided that to love and honor God is more important than my personal comfort or sense of security.
I was sixteen years old when depression first took hold — quietly enough that I didn't have a name for it, loudly enough that it pulled me out of the honors classes, the running career, and the identity I had spent my whole life building. By my senior year of high school I was Senior Class President and in the darkest place I had ever been — twice reaching a point of desperation I will describe only as a cry for help from someone who didn't know how to ask any other way.
The moment that changed everything came during my junior year of college — an early morning phone call, a childhood friend gone, and a decision made at his funeral that I could never do that to my own parents.
I first felt called to start Depression Ministry over fifteen years ago. I am not a psychologist or mental health professional. What I hold is a lifetime of lived experience and the settled conviction that God would not allow untold numbers of us to live with depression and have it mean nothing.
Depression Ministry exists because God wouldn't let it not exist — and because you deserve to know that your suffering is not evidence of failure, not punishment, and not the end of your story. It may be the very thing He intends to use.
"My feelings are not true simply because they are so strong. The Bible is true because it is the Word of God — and for every challenge ever made against it, it has stood."