Stacy’s friends would say that she brings a “can do,” “get it done” attitude to the table. She likes to investigate the Word of God, taking difficult concepts and conveying them with simplicity and relevancy. Incorporating illustrations, props & multimedia when teaching helps Stacy connect biblical truths with today’s culture and living. Simple, applicable & direct! Whatever it takes to capture the hearts of all people—generations and nations.

Stacy is an outdoorsy, sporty kind of girl. World travel is her passion. She loves to experience new people groups with all their culture, customs & foods. What is Stacy’s life verse? That would have to be: “…they that know their God will be strong and do exploits.” Wherever God calls, she will go—have passport, will travel!

Stacy lives in Lake Jackson with her fun-loving, servant-hearted, always on-the-go, engineer, Excel-guru husband, Mike. He’s the smartest “big kid” you’ll ever meet!

Background

Stacy gets her outdoorsy, sporty personality from being a West Coast / Pacific Northwest girl. She was born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised in Southern Cal until the age of 10; that’s when her family moved to Spokane, Washington. At the age of 16, when her parents were divorcing, Stacy’s spirit-filled, public high school, basketball coach invited her to church one fall night. That night in 1983, Stacy received salvation and was filled with the Holy Spirit. Her life was never the same!

After turning down several sports scholarships, Stacy answered the call of God on her life and attended Rhema Bible Training Center. As a missions student, Stacy met Ralph and Shirley Hagemeier. Upon graduation in 1987, she joined the Hagemeiers in Kalemie, Zaire (now The Democratic Republic of the Congo). Stacy taught in the 3-year Bible College, assisted with Children’s Church, managed the campus book store, conducted seminars in the bush and became fluent in Swahili. Stacy ministered in East Africa for over five and a half years.

Stacy continued on in missions training at North Central Bible College and in ministry by filling various roles through the years, such as:

• Office Manager/Assistant Intern Director
  Eastman Curtis Ministries
  Lakeland, FL & Tulsa, OK

• Single’s Pastor
  First Church of the Open Bible
  Spokane, WA

• Bible College Teacher
  Domata
  Bilthoven, Holland

• Itinerant Teacher
  Open Door Enterprises
  Sargent, TX.

Eventually, Stacy’s wanna be “techie/geek” side rose up and she returned to college to pursue a certificate in Micro Computers. This led to her current position as Content Technician / Data Specialist at The Dow Chemical Company. Stacy met Mike Collins at Dow and the two were married in 2002.

Mike and Stacy came to Life Foursquare Church in September, 2005. They love helping out as Alpha & Beta Leaders, outreach workers, Str8-Up teachers, Financial Class Instructors, and even coaching the church softball team. But more ardently than all – Stacy is excited to head up our newly formed Missions Department. Stacy has traveled to or through 19 countries so far…more to come…wanna go?!