Our Story

Brandon and Julianna first met several years ago at the University of Oklahoma Baptist Student Union. While they both remember meeting, friendship didn’t blossom until they began attending the international house church together at Norman Community Church. Truth be told, both had secretly written off ever finding anyone in Norman and they were independently making plans to move overseas in the near future. Six months in to attending the International house church, however, Brandon asked Julianna out for the first time just a few days after Valentine’s Day. Their first date was for coffee on Feb. 23, 2008 (and it lasted for more than three hours; it only stopped because they both had a birthday party to attend). They continued dating regularly after that. In late June, Brandon realized he was in love. Soon after, Julianna realized the same. Three months later, on Oct. 3, he proposed on the banks of Lake Hefner in Oklahoma
City. As the sun was setting over the water, he got down on one knee and asked Julianna to marry him. And marry they did on February 28th, 2009, in a ceremony affectionately described as “a prayer throughout.”

After tying the knot, Brandon and Julianna moved into Kreattli apartments where many international students live. They both enjoy developing relationships with those from other cultures (and the love sharing Jesus with them). In May, the couple led a team from Norman Community Church to help plant churches in Cape Town, South Africa, for two weeks. It was an incredible trip. On it Jesus did many things in the lives of the people that they met and in their own lives. One big thing that He did was confirm the call on their hearts, the voice whispering to their hearts, “…Africa…!” Currently they hope to move there in a full-time capacity in late January of 2010, as cross-cultural church planting is a passion God has given them both.