Birthday: October 14

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Personal Testimony: Yes, I am adopted! I was adopted to a wonderful Christian family because my birth parents did not know how to take care of me. I see this as a tremendous and amazing blessing because if I did not get removed from the environment that I was in I would not be giving this testimony today. I would most likely be in the streets somewhere doing drugs and getting involved in sexual activity. But God has a plan for me. My Parents that I now have, Timothy Edward Tarchick and Cynthia Marie Tarchick, have, through God’s amazing omnipotence, taught me everything there is to know about how to live a godly life and how to become the amazing, beautiful , young woman that God wants me to be. I have come a long way with many hardship, pain, reckless abandonment, and suffering. I would have to say that during my last two years of High School, I brought a lot of the pain on myself. God did not bless me for my rebellion and disobedience and lust, pride, and arrogance. I thought I knew what I was doing. I thought I could control my emotions when it came to relationships. I did not know what true love was. I thought that love was when you really liked someone but as I have been here at BMW, I have found that love is so much more than how you might feel toward someone. Love is when you can tell the other person, “You are sinning”! There is so much more to love than that but that is just a brief explanation. I have been on many summer teams here at Teen Missions but none of them grew me like last year of 2008 when I went to Nicaragua. I went there rebellious and angry and came back a whole new person. I realized how selfish we Americans are! I thought my situation at home was bad until I Saw the poverty of some countries. It made me appreciate even more, how God has blessed us as a nation. Sadly though, our nation isn’t going to continue being blessed because we as a nation are rebelling against God. Anyway, that is beside the point. I am now at BMW, and am filled with more joy than I have ever felt in my entire life. Yes, there are struggles here that if you let Satan get to you, they will bring you down. Everyday is a choice. Everything depends on your attitude. If you have a positive attitude and see your struggles as God teaching you and growing you, which is why you are here in the first place, you will really enjoy your time at BMW. But if you let Satan get a foot hold, it will bring you down and you will fail miserably. That is all I have to say. Trusting God is something He is teaching me and is something I will learn all my life. Here at BMW, you always have someone to encourage you and I really think that is God’s blessing to us.