Our Bible Bach Testimony
As you may know from our home page, we have been friends for over 20 years. We were neighbors as young kids, roommates in college and worked together at 3 different jobs. Yet in 2023 as we both started diving deeper into our relationships with Jesus, our own relationship became stronger than ever before!
In 2024 as we were planning Jess’s bachelorette party, she felt the Lord put on her heart during a church service to go to a Christian retreat. It would be honoring to God, her friends and her marriage. That week things started to fall into place as someone from her business group randomly offered to host and lead a retreat for her friends. The excitement was quickly turned to sorrow after a hurricane, but in typical God fashion he uses all things for good. After researching other Christian retreats or online content to host our own, nothing stood out as something that would be tailored to a bachelorette party. Jess wanted to have real fun while also bonding with her girls and with God. So, through some prayer and fasting, Bible Bach was an idea given to her and she immediately knew it had to be done with her best friend, Paige.
During the same time Paige was starting to contemplate a new career path and starting her own business. She knew she was gifted in decorating and hospitality but felt that there was something missing in every idea she was considering, she wanted to do this for Jesus, but how? She decided to temporarily put her goals on the back burner to focus on serving the people around her, she trusted that the right idea would come in God’s time… and that was about the time Jess called with the idea of Bible Bach. It encapsulated everything she was dreaming of but with the added purpose she was looking for!
And looking back, they noticed how God had planned this for them all along! Earlier in the year they attended a Christian camp, the weekend was filled with many meaningful, bonding and life changing moments. While they knew they wanted to do something like it again, they realized for their age group and life style they probably should be looking into “retreats” in the future; that was first time they had ever heard of the term and it obviously stuck with them. Approximately 1 year later they hosted the first ever Bible Bach Retreat with Jess as the Bride and Paige right by her side!
Jess’ Testimony
Hi Guy’s, I’m Jess! I found God in 2019 after a series of friend and boyfriend breakups when I was invited by a new friend (also now one of my bridesmaids) to a Freedom Group. While I loved what I was learning about God, I was slow to give up my lifestyle and was still finding my worth in my relationships, finances and my career. Towards the end of 2022, I had the idea to leave my current job where I was making $100k a year to start my own cabinetry company, I had so much peace over this, knowing it was a God idea that I decided to put in my notice a few weeks later. After actually leaving that job that I had worked at for almost 7 years was when the impostor syndrome and depression kicked in. “What was I doing leaving my comfortable job? I’m not good enough to go out on my own, I don’t know what I’m doing, I’ll never make it”, constant regret and worry plagued my mind especially after the business started slow and I was constantly dumping money into keeping it running with no return. This was such a lonely season, no one around me seemed to understand and they were all so excited for the business while I felt the complete opposite.
In this slow time I dove into reading the Bible, I had never read it before, always using the excuse that I had no time, so now that I had no business and few friends there was really no excuse left. For about 4 months this pattern continued, every day for hours I would read my Bible, get on my knees and cry/ pray to God. But things just continued to get worse, my personal life was as stagnant as my business and the overwhelming abusive thoughts continued. I couldn’t tell what thoughts were my own, God’s or Satan’s. Finally, In March 2023, it was recommended to me to join the women’s business group at my church and luckily there was a meeting the next morning.
The group had been meeting for a few weeks and I walked in as a new girl and introduced myself, “Hi, I’m Your Cabinet Girl Jess, I own a cabinetry business” and slumped back down into my seat. We started watching a video and the first thing that played across the screen in bold letters was “GOD LOVES CABINETS”. Everyone snapped their neck to look back at me and I was so disassociated that I didn’t even notice what was on the screen until I felt everyone’s stares. The video continued about a cabinet shop owner and his struggles and ended with the punch line “God loves cabinets and God loves the cabinet maker”. This was my first big God moment where I recognized how personal camp; intentional his love was. I was meant to be there! I was able to open up to the other women, receive advice from them and even made a new best friend, who also ended up being a bridesmaid in my wedding!
I wish I could say everything got better immediately, but it didn’t. The only thing that changed was that I knew God was in this with me, there was purpose to this and I began to learn how to trust Him camp; His processes, all good things take time and all things are working for my good, even if it hurts. The Lord continued to prune the heck out of me, stripping everything away until all that was left was a clean slate for him to work with. Love of money, people pleasing, selfish ambition, all of it was replaced with the fruits of the spirit that simply came from spending time with him. My identity wasn’t found in people or my career anymore, I wasn’t just the Cabinet Girl, I was the daughter of the most high king. God even pointed out to me that the plaguing thoughts I was struggling with was OCD and all of the compulsive, irrational and even blasphemous thoughts I had my whole life were not normal, like social media joked that they were. He told me I could become free of those thoughts AND HE DID FREE ME FROM THEM!
A year had passed from this “God loves cabinets” moment and while I saw him moving all the time and became so happy and content with just his presence and the little things in life, none of my big prayers had been answered yet. I was scraping pennies together to pay bills every month and when I couldn’t make it work, God would miraculously show up at the very last minute, or as he likes to call it, his perfect time, to make ends meet. This is how I got to know him as my provider. Still the unstableness was tough to bear every month, I was ready to quit the business or at least get a second job. But God in a dream (January 2024) told me not to, that he would get the glory from my business in just a few short months… and He did! Right in his perfect time, an over night miracle happened. $500k in business overnight, the same month I was asked to speak on a panel about how I built the Cabinet Girl Brand, at that same conference, won a photoshoot that ended up being a surprise engagement shoot, within the same month my fiancé and I got a puppy we had been searching over a year for and also suddenly found out we had to move. But somehow with God Math, we were able to buy our dream house and even got $10 back on closing day.
There were so many miracles and moments in between, but as John says in his gospel “Jesus did many other things. If they were all written in books, I don’t suppose there would be room enough in the whole world for all the books.” In this short time I completely fell in love with Jesus and I just want people to know that this love, freedom and redemption is available to them too. I am not special, I just chose to put effort into my relationship with Jesus and as His Word says “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8 ESV)
Paige’s Testimony
Hi friends, I’m Paige! I have been fortunate enough to have known who Jesus was my entire life. I grew up attending a local church camp and their after-school program from the age of 4 to 12. Growing up, my family had different approaches to faith — my mom had a more casual relationship with her Baptist background, and my dad didn't share those beliefs. As a result, I didn’t grow up in a home where a connection with the Holy Spirit was a strong presence. I knew about God, but I didn’t truly know Him on a personal level.
By middle school, I began to question everything. I wondered, What are the odds that the faith I’ve grown up with is actually the true way? How could I be that fortunate? I began to ask myself, Do I believe because it’s true, or do I believe simply because it’s what I was raised to believe? I couldn’t tell the difference between my own thoughts, the enemy’s voice, and God’s. Honestly, I didn’t even know it was possible to hear God’s voice. Most of the stories I’d heard growing up just felt like... stories. They didn’t seem real.
Then, as I entered high school, I dove into the world. I started dating, making new friends, and partying. What I didn’t realize was that I was stepping into a dangerous trap—the devils playground—and this was only the beginning.
I began living for others and idolizing relationships with people over my relationship with God. Slowly, I lost sight of who I was, finding my worth in the validation of others rather than in Christ. My joy was tied to the approval of people. Before long, my confidence disappeared. I became depressed, anxious, and far removed from the person God had created me to be. I was drinking heavily—when I say heavily, I mean it. I was spiraling. I became desperate.
In 2021, I started my journey back to Jesus. I was still broken and deep in sin, but for the first time in a long while, I was seeking Him again. I joined a small group at a local church with Jess, hoping it would help me reconnect. I wish I could say I immediately recognized my sin and ran back to the Lord, but that’s not how it went. I actually backslid again. During that time, I faced intense spiritual attacks. It felt like life kept beating me down, chewing me up, and spitting me out. I remained bitter and broken while staying stuck in my own ways.
Come 2023, Jess and I began to have countless spiritual conversations, and as I watched her life and business unfold, I saw God’s hand moving in her in ways that left me in awe. His promises to her were being fulfilled one by one through her obedience, and her faithfulness became a powerful witness to me. She continually encouraged me to pursue a relationship with the Lord, and I saw firsthand how she experienced God’s love. In fact, I felt His love through her.
Having a friend there, not coming from a place of judgment but speaking the word of God over my life, gave me a real opportunity to witness what God’s love looks like in the flesh. Her support, her prayers, and her unwavering belief in me helped me long for more of what God had to offer. I reached a point where I was willing to do whatever it took to receive His love and peace… Lord knows, I needed it.
On November 21st, 2023, I found myself driving to the beach with a million things on my plate and a million other things on my mind. Yet in that moment I knew I needed to seek God first. That night on the beach, I finally made the decision to fully submit my life to the Lord and live for Him. That night, I heard God clearly tell me that if I wanted a relationship with Him, I needed to give up alcohol. I knew it was a barrier between us, and I realized that if I didn’t make this change, I was heading down a dangerous path. I was sick, both physically and spiritually, and I needed Jesus to come into my heart and save me from the mess I had made of my life.
That was the day I began living for Him and exactly six months later, I was baptized on the very beach where I had once been lost, now I have been found!
Now, over a year sober, I celebrate my health, my new life in Christ, and the freedom I’ve found—freedom from depression, anxiety, and addiction. God has softened my heart, restored my mind, and filled my life with better, more uplifting friends. Watching God use what the enemy meant for evil and turn it into something good has been nothing short of miraculous!
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.” (Genesis 50:20)
