OUR STORY

Faith in the journey. Fire in the trial. Grace through it all.

Let’s talk about where the name Faith & Fire Grill came from.

One day while I was trying to come up with a name and logo for our food trailer, the words Faith & Fire suddenly popped into my mind. At the time, I thought it was random. A few days ago, while talking with a customer, the Holy Spirit reminded me exactly where that name came from.

For the past eight years, our family has walked through some incredibly difficult seasons.

In 2020, my husband underwent heart reconstructive surgery and nearly died. Doctors told us there was a possibility he could lose limbs and require a colostomy bag. A few days after surgery, he suffered an allergic reaction to heparin, battled a bacterial infection, and developed double pneumonia. Through it all, God sustained him.

After returning home to Pennsylvania, my husband went into cardiac arrest at our house and then again in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Over the following years, there were countless hospital stays, procedures, cardioversions, a pacemaker-defibrillator implanted in his heart, shocks from that device, and more close calls than I can count.

In 2024, after back-to-back cardioversions, doctors told us they didn’t know how much longer his heart would last.

At the same time, our family was navigating challenges outside of his health. Jerris and I separated in 2022 but reconciled later that year. Through God’s grace, healing, forgiveness, and restoration, our marriage was rebuilt.

Then there were our children. When all of this began in 2020, our oldest was around 15 years old and our youngest was only 10. They watched their step father fight for his life while trying to navigate their own childhoods and teenage years. As parents, we did our best to protect them from the weight of what was happening, but the reality is they walked through the fire with us.

When Jerris received his heart transplant in 2024, I had to leave my two youngest children with my parents while I commuted back and forth between Philadelphia and Danville. Those months were some of the hardest of our lives. We were separated as a family, living day by day, trusting God with every phone call, every test result, and every uncertain moment.

We also have our daughter, Noelle—a child many doctors would have said shouldn’t have been possible. Yet God had different plans. She is another reminder that God’s plans are bigger than our limitations. (I’ll add, it was prophesized over my husband and I in 2014 that we would face a child—little did we know, she would come when I was nearing 40. 🤨)

While we were receiving care in Philadelphia, we witnessed the hand of God move in ways that are difficult to put into words. We saw His provision. We saw His peace. We saw His faithfulness.

Then, in October 2024, my husband received the gift of a new heart from a donor. Today he is driving, working, laughing, and standing beside me as we build this business together.

And that’s where the name came from.

We have walked through the fire.

Fear. Sorrow. Pain. Suffering. Uncertainty. Heartbreak.

But through every fire, God remained faithful.

Faith & Fire isn’t just the name of a food trailer. It’s our testimony. It’s the story of a family that has seen God’s hand move through health battles, a restored marriage, the blessing of children, and a heart transplant that gave my husband a second chance at life.

So if you stop by our trailer and hear us talking about our faith, understand that it isn’t just something we believe. It’s something we’ve lived.

We have seen God move in our lives. We have seen Him move in our marriage. We have seen Him move in our children. We have seen Him move in my husband’s health.

And we’ll always be willing to share what He has done for us and what He can do for others.