Leadership

Cynthia Besecker

Feeling God’s call and not submitting to it puts you between a rock and a hard place. Cynthia says that is where she spent most of her adult life. Gradually she began to obey—first forming a quilting group in 2000. Seven years later with encouragement from friends and Cathy Caldwell, she quickly obeyed the next call to lead a Bible study.

From the very first day, God used the study to grow her heart. He called her to be inviting, vulnerable, tender and merciful—to of all people women! Tired of reaping the isolation she was sowing, God in His mercy showed her a better way. The book she used in that first study was Captivating by Stasi Eldredge, a statement from which captured the condition of her heart at the time: “Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom,” (Anais Nin). The pain God allowed in Cynthia’s life hurt more than the fear she had to obey Him and open herself up to other women. As she continues to step out in faith, her fear is being replaced with the fellowship and love of like-minded, godly women and a deeper faith in her Father who loves her.

Cynthia Besecker has been married 33 wonderful years to her husband Robert. Proud of her family, she has two grown children and four precious grandchildren: Hayden, Grant, Evan and Maya Rose.