Ben & Katy
Ben and Katy had been members of Trinity Fellowship Church for two years. They both came from different church backgrounds, so Trinity was essential in helping them come together as a couple. At Trinity, they were able to find amazing mentors who helped them grow in their faith while they were dating.
After a job opportunity came up for Katy in Waco, the couple planned to move there together. They’d planned to live together but stay in separate bedrooms, but struggled to know what decision would best honor God.
“We’d both been feeling a pull from God that we needed to get married NOW,” said Katy. “But we were planning to wait until we’d checked off the typical ‘list’ of things people do before a wedding.”
The week they planned to move, they went to Wednesday night worship. Weekly worship had been such a huge part of the couple’s lives, and they both reflected on how Trinity Fellowship had helped them grow as a couple. That night, as they discussed their plans with friends, the couple both realized that they wanted to get married that weekend!
“Ben turned to me and asked ‘Do you want to get married on Saturday, and then we can go to Waco?’” It was such a crazy feeling, knowing that all this time, God was working things out in His time, not ours,” Katy recalled.
“We spent the night talking to so many of our close friends and mentors, and our conversations with them helped us decide that this crazy, spontaneous moment was God’s perfect timing for us,” Ben said. The Trinity community rallied around the couple and encouraged them to get married, and even helped them make it happen!
Ben and Katy called their families late that night to let them know about their wedding plans. But there was one other thing the couple wanted to do.
“We met with Pastor Austin Price that week, and we decided we wanted to get baptized on the same day we got married,” Katy said. It was so important for us to get baptized at Trinity and show that we wanted to give our lives to the Lord right from the start of our marriage.”
Even with COVID-19, over 30 of their friends and family came to celebrate the couple at the last-minute – paying for the wedding and the hotel room, and even making them a cake!
“We were so shocked and overjoyed to see them, and Ben wasn’t even able to make it through the vows – he was crying that much,” Katy said.
“Pastor Austin did a great job performing the ceremony, and our mentors from Trinity got to baptize us,” Ben said. “They had been such a huge part of our lives, and they shared so much about how to pursue Jesus in marriage and as a family. It was so incredible and special for us to get baptized the same day that we started our lives together as a married couple.”
Ben and Katy are so grateful for how the community at Trinity Fellowship Church helped them pursue God. “Through the new Online Campus, we’re still able to stay connected to our community at Trinity even while we live in Waco,” Katy said. “We couldn’t have imagined a better way to start our lives together than with our church family around us.”
