Emily Zimmer
Deacon
Chair of the Deacons
Emily and John
Chair of the Deacons
Emily and John
What is your favorite food?
Chocolate
What are your hobbies?
Family time, long walks in my neighborhood, hiking, working out at Burn Bootcamp and traveling to beautiful places.
Chocolate
What are your hobbies?
Family time, long walks in my neighborhood, hiking, working out at Burn Bootcamp and traveling to beautiful places.
What is your short testimony?
I grew up in a Christian home as an adopted only child of wonderful parents who taught me with both words and actions what it looks like to follow Jesus. My dad tells me that when I was about five years old, we had the TV in the kitchen tuned to a church service one day, and during the altar call, I told him I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart. So he helped me pray with the preacher on the screen to give my life to Jesus. I didn’t really have my own memory of that moment, so when I was 10, attending a Christian summer camp with a friend down in Valdosta, GA, I rededicated my life to the Lord because I wanted to have that moment that I knew for sure and could remember making my own decision to follow Jesus. The Lord has been so gracious to provide communities of faith in each season and location of my life, showing me in ever deepening ways who He is, how He is at work in the world, and inviting me to join Him in that work. That is my heart’s desire - to pour myself out in service to Him and to be shaped each day, little by little, to look more and more like Him - through surrender, dependence and abiding.
What is your hope for Eternal Church?
That we would be signposts for the Kingdom of God, courageously willing to say yes to all the ways - big and small, individually and communally - that the Lord is calling us to participate in His inbreaking Kingdom of redemption, restoration and renewal.
I grew up in a Christian home as an adopted only child of wonderful parents who taught me with both words and actions what it looks like to follow Jesus. My dad tells me that when I was about five years old, we had the TV in the kitchen tuned to a church service one day, and during the altar call, I told him I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart. So he helped me pray with the preacher on the screen to give my life to Jesus. I didn’t really have my own memory of that moment, so when I was 10, attending a Christian summer camp with a friend down in Valdosta, GA, I rededicated my life to the Lord because I wanted to have that moment that I knew for sure and could remember making my own decision to follow Jesus. The Lord has been so gracious to provide communities of faith in each season and location of my life, showing me in ever deepening ways who He is, how He is at work in the world, and inviting me to join Him in that work. That is my heart’s desire - to pour myself out in service to Him and to be shaped each day, little by little, to look more and more like Him - through surrender, dependence and abiding.
What is your hope for Eternal Church?
That we would be signposts for the Kingdom of God, courageously willing to say yes to all the ways - big and small, individually and communally - that the Lord is calling us to participate in His inbreaking Kingdom of redemption, restoration and renewal.