What I Prayed Before I Built This
— Jae
Dear Heavenly Father & Lord,
I am thankful — not for any ability of my own — but that you would allow a man who walked away from you, who let years pass in silence, to turn around and find you still present, still patient. That is grace I did not seek and do not deserve.
I ask one thing of you for this place. Let those who find it find Your words. Let them encounter You not as doctrine to accept or rules to follow, but as the God who is — who was in the beginning, who took on flesh, who walked through death and came out the other side. Let them understand what sin actually costs. What the cross actually accomplished. What the resurrection actually means — not as symbol, but as fact, and as the hinge on which everything turns.
You know there are people who will arrive here without a foundation, or who once had one and lost it, or who carry questions they do not know how to ask. I pray they find a place to begin. I pray they come to know what it means to be a child of God — not as a concept, but as a lived reality.
Lord, let this carry Your name and nothing else.
To you alone be the glory, now and forever more.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
My name is Jae
Lee is my family name. I've built this with the honest posture I'm still working toward.
I grew up in church. I knew the songs, the liturgy, the language. And then, somewhere in adulthood, I walked away. Not dramatically — just quietly, over years. By the time I started asking questions again, I wasn't sure I remembered how.
My wife, Katie, came to this from a completely different direction. She grew up in a traditional Buddhist family. Christianity wasn't her background. Ironically, Christianity was something she encountered through me and me through her - through our conversations, through support and encouragement from many others.
I built this because I thought it would help me when I was starting over — and I wanted to make it for others in the same position: those who feel like they missed the foundation, or who stepped away and don't know how to step back in, or who are entirely new to this and don't know where to begin.
I am not a pastor or a theologian. I have not attended seminary. I am someone who is reading, and asking, and trying to understand — and who believes the Bible is worth the effort. This project is meant to be supplemental and informative. We strongly encourage reading Scripture directly as the primary source.
We came to this recently — not decades of steady faith, but a real and recent turning. What I genuinely believe is that God arranged this: that Katie and I would find our way to faith together, at the same time, from two very different starting points. That is not something either of us planned. I think He did.
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