Hi! I am a violinist, pianist, and vocalist for the team. I am the youngest of four children. I was born near St. Louis Missouri and later moved to Indiana when I was twelve. I was blessed to grow up in a pastor’s home with incredible parents who did everything in their power to make sure that I knew who God was and why I needed Him. At the age of six, I made a profession of faith, but only because I saw my older siblings receiving Christ as their Savior. In my mind, I was just trying to escape hell. God eventually opened my heart, and I accepted him as my personal Savior at the age of twelve. However, I fell back into sin and never grew in the Word until my freshman year of college at Maranatha Baptist University when I was seventeen. I began studying violin and piano pedagogy, and God placed specific friends in the music department who challenged me to grow in my relationship with God. The past year has been the most freeing year of my life as I have put off the sin that prevented my spiritual growth. I planned on returning to Maranatha for the 2022-2023 school year to complete my sophomore classes, but God had other plans. Three weeks before returning to school, Jeremy Frazor expressed interest in having me join the team. My inward response was immediately, “No.” However, I knew that I should seek God’s will not just my own. I prayed that God would make it obvious whether I should go or not. God answered me when Jeremy called and used the exact wording of my prayer to invite me to join the team. God changed my heart and gave me thankfulness and joy as I prepared to join the team. I look forward to traveling and seeing what growing opportunities God has in store for us.
~ Emily
Emily Goldfuss
Team Secretary