Hi, I am Louise, and this is my story.

I grew up as one of the eldest, in a large Christian family. For the earliest years of my life, our family lived on a farm in rural Australia. We then moved to a seaside town where our family grew up. And just to add to the mix, our entire family was home schooled. For the most part, I loved being schooled at home with the babies and toddlers around. I was raised with a pencil in one hand and a baby in the other.

When I was three, our family packed up and moved to Fiji for missions work. It was there on the mission field that I made a decision to Jesus as my Saviour. I am sure this explains why doing missions is such a strong calling on my life. I was born again in missions, so it is my spiritual DNA. Choosing to be baptised in water at the tender age of eight was a significant moment in my spiritual journey of surrendering my life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Looking back on my childhood I remember having supernatural encounters periodically enough that they became somewhat normal, almost expected occurrences. Dreams, visions and physical experiences of both angels and Jesus were part of my young years. Yet, I did not always realise what they were because supernatural encounters were not talked about or topics that were preached. Some of the experiences were shut down because people around me, including myself, did not understand what I was experiencing. Yet, a firm belief was cultivated in me that anyone can have access the gifts of the Spirit, especially healing and the prophetic, at any age.

Music ministry opened up at an after school kids club when I was ten, and have continued in worship ministry since then, locally and internationally. When I was asked to preach my first sermon at fourteen, life turned serious for me and I knew without a doubt that if I set my heart for God, He would unfold His purposes in my life regardless of age or experience. I have been privileged to have these opportunities from such a young age, as they have been pivotal for the training the Holy Spirit has given me. Not everyone gets to have godly mentors in their life, but we all have a true mentor in the Holy Spirit. He is able to teach us and lead us into all truth where people are not able.

With all these things happening in my life at such young ages, things were not all so simple. With the calling, the fire and the trials come to bring maturity of character. Around the age of six or seven I remember the Lord spoke to me as clearly as I hear Him today and told me that I would not have close friends for my childhood and teenage years. Instead, I was to keep my heart set apart for Him and His purposes for my life.  This was because friends would be a priority and they would distract me from pursuing God. Friends play such important roles in our lives, but when God said we would be separate from the world, I realised that He really did mean it literally for me. Along the way, I have met others who have pursued God and know this separation from their peers well.

When I was sixteen, I was sexually abused, which caused me to struggle with depression for the next seven years. Due to various circumstances, my parents were unable to support me through this time. If it was not for my walk with God, I know I would not be here today. Depression is interesting. It was after God healed me that I learned this; when someone has depression for a long period of time, they learn to implement strategies to cope with it and find ways to go on in life. I was no different. I learned to function as a seemingly happy individual in the world around me. But something was still wrong and I carried a sad heaviness I could not understand or shake. I believed God for healing and complete restoration immediately after the situation. And for the last few years of the depression, I had managed to mask it so well that even I did not know I still had depression. When I was twenty-three, I was in a meeting where the air was electric and I knew that something powerful was going to happen. While the speaker never prayed for me, the presence of God in that room was powerful enough that it broke the stronghold of depression off my life forever. Freedom is a wonderful thing!

I remember at fourteen years of age, my heart was awakened to missions and I felt God’s call to go to Africa. It was four years later, at eighteen years of age, I was at a conference and the Lord specifically told me to go to Mozambique. I immediately set things into motion and seeing no one else was able or available, I travelled alone to Mozambique and South Africa within six months of receiving that call.

After that God opened opportunity for me in a couple of local schools where I spent over four years in School Chaplaincy, as a Christian Pastoral Support Worker. I learned valuable skills in mentoring and discipleship during this time. I know this was my own school of hard knocks with Holy Spirit as my personal teacher and advisor.

As a young adult, I was running a young people’s Bible study and activation group, Deeper. We had the opportunity to join a glory gathering in central Australia. This was another significant marker in my spiritual walk. Myself and a team of nine people from South Australia went to join around thirty others from around Australia in the red centre. We saw so many supernatural manifestations of healings, miracles, signs and wonders. God opened up my heart for the nation Australia. It became a spring board into the heavenly dimensions of the supernatural realm. My life was charged with heavenly encounters, visions, dreams and the prophetic from that time. It was as though an explosion went off in my spirit.

When I was twenty-four, I moved away from my family and there was a huge grieving in my heart as I knew that things were falling apart in the family. It was only a matter of time and the dynamics began to unfold. My parents separated just before I turned twenty-five. What followed was the deepest darkest valley I have ever experienced in my life. Due to other complex situations at that time, I was completely abandoned by my friends and church family. When God is all you have, you realise that God is truly all you need. The stress was so high that my brain shut down for six months and I had to completely rely on the Holy Spirit prompting me to remember anything. I could not even remember my age phone number or other personal details off the top of my head. This was a sure test to see if God had truly healed me of the depression. Praise God, I can confidently say that I did not have the depression return once. After the darkest valleys come the greatest mountains. I jumped out of a plane at that time to signify the end of an era and that my trust was no longer in man, but completely in the Holy Spirit.

I studied floristry for a couple of years. Initially a challenge, it brought God’s beauty and wonder into my heart. And it was a consistent part of my healing throughout the process of my parents’ separation and divorce. God opened an opportunity in a children’s ministry to do ministry around Australia and overseas. It was through this that I had the door open for my first EP released "Lord of This Land". Which was soon followed by my first album, "I Am In You."

God opened doors to travel around the world, connecting me with people of the heart and opening ministry a long the way. And He moved me interstate for a season. I have been able to complete my first book, continue recording music and begin recording videos to encourage others who are whole heartedly seeking God. Truth seekers become truth finders.

I am working full time, involved in youth street outreach in the city I live in. I believe that God is working deeply in His children’s hearts to develop character and depth in us to sustain life carrying His weighty presence.

To date, I have travelled to Outback Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Malawi, Cameroon, South Africa, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and the USA doing ministry. I cannot be owned by man and will not be bought or sold for money. Living by the wind, I go to particular places as the Spirit leads and directs.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

John 3:8 NKJV