Today we’d like to introduce you to Joshua And Whitney Sullivan.
Hi Joshua and Whitney, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
This Is Home: Our Story of Friendship, Faith, and Following God
We are so excited and honored to share our story. More than anything, we pray that somewhere along the way, our story deeply connects with you and inspires you to dig deeper, seek God, listen for His voice, and follow His way—even when His way looks completely different from what you expected.
Our story began at a mock trial.
Before an actual trial, attorneys sometimes bring people in to listen to a case and give feedback. It helps them think through their strategy, identify anything they may have missed, and understand how others might perceive the case.
That’s where we met.
From the moment we met, we could tell something was different about one another. It wasn’t romantic chemistry. There were no butterflies, sparks, or instant attraction. But there was something else—something we both recognized.
It was Jesus.
He was all over us, and somehow, we both knew it.
There was a drawing between us that we could only describe as the Holy Spirit.
Joshua asked for my number, which was very unlike him. I gave it to him, which was very unlike me.
And then…nothing.
A month passed.
One day, while I was at work, my phone dinged. I had completely forgotten about our encounter, but on the other end of that text was Joshua—Mr. Sullivan himself.
He told me he would be in Waco. He was coming from Belton, about an hour away, and wanted to know if I wanted to get coffee and read the Word together.
Of course I did.
As soon as I agreed, I heard a still, small voice in my heart say:
“That is your husband.”
I shrugged it off.
It was so faint that I almost wondered if I had imagined it.
We met at a coffee shop, and I was fasting at the time. So instead of showing up with the typical coffee or tea, I walked in carrying a half gallon mason jar of fresh-pressed watermelon juice—with huge chunks of watermelon floating around in it.
I’m pretty sure Joshua was thinking, “What is happening right now?”
But we sat down and began to talk.
And it was easy.
The conversation flowed as though we had known each other for years. We talked about Jesus, life, ministry, Scripture, and everything in between. Hours passed without us realizing it.
Eventually, the sun began to set, and it was time to go.
By the time we walked outside, it was dark. I leaned in to hug him goodbye, and there it was again.
That still, small voice.
“This is home.”
I thought, Hmmmm.
And shrugged it off again.
For the next eight months, we were practically inseparable—hip to hip, serving Jesus, ministering the Gospel, and doing life together.
And still, there was no romantic relationship.
We were simply best friends who loved Jesus and loved people.
Then one day, everything changed.
Joshua was out working on his seasonal Christmas-lighting business when God gave him a prophetic love song for me called “Permission to Fall in Love.”
God told him that I was his wife.
Joshua’s response was essentially, “God, you’re going to have to tell her.”
He thought, “If I have to convince a woman to marry me, then I’ll have to convince her to stay married to me—and that sounds exhausting.”
So he waited.
Nine days later, I was in my prayer closet spending time with the Lord when I heard Him speak to me again.
“Do a friend inventory.”
I remember thinking, “What is that?”
He told me to write down every person in my life whom I considered a friend, and He would tell me about them.
Of course, the first person I wrote down was Joshua.
And spoiler alert: I never made it past his name.
The first word that came to mind was:
FAST.
I thought, “Okay, God. I can do that. What are we fasting for?”
But He prompted me to keep writing.
The words began pouring out faster than I could think. And when I reached the bottom of the page, I wrote:
Husband.
Partner.
Spouse.
I stared at the page.
“What, Lord?”
I even remember thinking, “Have You called the wrong phone?”
I was walking through a season of healing and heartbreak after my divorce, and just as I was coming to the end of that season—when God had finally begun to bind up my wounds—He was telling me He was bringing me a husband.
And man, did it happen FAST.
God wasn’t lying. Of course He wasn’t. He is a God who cannot lie.
So I called Joshua.
“We need to talk. Immediately.”
The next day, we met at a local Christian coffee shop.
I could feel that the conversation was about to get very intimate, so I asked Joshua if we could go outside onto the porch.
My heart was pounding.
God was prompting me to tell him what He had told me.
I looked at Joshua and blurted out:
“God said you’re my husband.”
He smiled.
“I already know.”
I stared at him.
He told me about the love song God had given him and how God had already told him that I was his wife.
“But,” he said, “I told Him He would have to tell you.”
And there we were.
Two people who had never been romantically interested in one another.
Two best friends.
Two separate encounters with God.
And one very clear answer.
From there, God took us on a journey of a lifetime.
And honestly, it would take books and books to tell the entire story.
Our yes to God has taken us through pastoring a church, opening a discipleship house where we welcomed people off the streets into our home and lived daily life with them for about a year and a half, building businesses together, feeding our community and church five times a week, evangelizing, and learning what it really means to love people through action.
Eventually, we purchased a 10-acre ranch in Sierra Blanca, West Texas, with a vision to build a homestead village filled with tiny homes where people can come to rest, reset, and encounter God. We want to teach regenerative agriculture, biblical hospitality, and the beauty of slowing down enough to hear the Lord.
Today, Joshua is beginning a farm consulting business and building tiny homes. We still have our Christmas-lighting business, and we’re considering purchasing an RV and embracing that lifestyle for a season as we continue building the ranch.
Through all of it, God has been teaching us that following Him isn’t always about having the entire plan figured out.
Sometimes it’s simply about saying yes to the next thing.
Our dream is to learn how to build generational wealth—not simply for ourselves, but so that we can teach other Christian couples how to steward resources, build businesses, create opportunities, and establish something that can bless generations to come.
But at the center of everything we do is still the same thing that brought us together in the first place:
Jesus.
We love Jesus.
We love spontaneity.
We love food—we’re serious foodies. And yes, I should mention that my husband is also a private chef, so he absolutely loves cooking for people.
We love meeting new people.
We love adventures.
We’ll drive several hours just to throw a blanket down somewhere and watch the sunset.
We love fashion and interior design, which means thrift-store date nights are absolutely a thing.
And we can’t wait to have babies—plenty of babies! We also look forward to fostering and adopting.
Our story has been beautiful, and even in uncertain seasons it has been easy in his presence. It has taught us that obedience can open doors we never knew existed.
Sometimes God asks you to take a step before you understand where the road is going.
Sometimes He speaks through a song.
Sometimes through a friend.
Sometimes through a quiet whisper you almost dismiss.
And sometimes, He speaks in ways that only make sense when you look back and realize He was putting the pieces together all along.
And now, we are experiencing one of those full-circle moments.
This Saturday, August 29, Joshua will be returning to the very same coffee shop where we sat on that porch and told each other what God had spoken to us.
Only this time, he’ll be there for his very first book signing.
My best friend—the man I never expected to fall in love with—is now a published author.
And somehow, it feels just like God.
Because from the beginning, He was writing a story we couldn’t see yet.
And we’re still living it.
We hope you’ll follow along as the story continues—not because we have everything figured out, but because we want you to see what can happen when ordinary people say yes to an extraordinary God.
Our prayer is that our story inspires you to seek Him for yourself, discover the purpose He’s placed inside of you, and learn to live a life of faith, purpose, generosity, and wholehearted worship.
Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s this:
When God writes the story, the best part is often the part you never saw coming.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Our Struggles: What God Did With What Was Meant to Break Us
When we say that our marriage has been easy in His presence, we don’t mean that our life has been easy.
We have walked through some incredibly difficult seasons.
What we mean is that when we kept our eyes fixed on Jesus, remembering that He was our priority and choosing to walk through everything with Him, He took things that could have been almost unbearable and made them transformational.
Our question was never, “Why us?”
It became, “What are we learning here?”
One of the first areas God taught us to trust Him was in provision.
There was a season when we were providing for an entire church off of one paycheck from H-E-B, where Joshua was working as an overnight stocker. Eventually, I started working part-time in fashion, selling wedding, prom, and quinceañera gowns for $13.50 an hour. That part-time job eventually became full-time.
There were times when we went to food pantries.
There were times when we didn’t have a car and had to walk to work.
There were times when the last money we had went toward keeping the electricity on or putting gas in the car so we could take the church where it needed to go.
By every natural measure, there were moments when it didn’t make sense.
But God provided.
People would show up with food for the church. Someone gave us sound equipment. Joshua had a relationship with the man we rented our home from, and when we needed help with rent, he would allow Joshua to do work for him at other properties.
And then there were the cars.
There were people who literally showed up in the middle of the night and gifted us vehicles. In fact, within two years—almost down to the same month and day—we were given another car.
We watched God make a way over and over again.
It wasn’t because we had figured it out.
It wasn’t because we had enough.
It was because He was faithful.
But financial hardship wasn’t the only struggle we faced.
We also experienced deep relational pain.
During the first two years of our marriage, we experienced abandonment, belittling, slander, betrayal, and persecution—even from people we were trying to help.
We knew Scripture told us that following Jesus would involve persecution, but knowing something is biblical doesn’t mean experiencing it doesn’t hurt.
It hurt.
Some of it was absolutely devastating.
There were moments when we had to process what had happened, grieve what we thought relationships would be, and choose forgiveness when everything in us wanted to protect ourselves.
But God met us there.
Those experiences didn’t destroy our marriage. They refined it.
They brought us closer to one another and, even more importantly, closer to Him.
God began teaching us what true forgiveness actually looks like. He taught us how to love His bride—His people, His Church—even when our experiences with people were painful.
He refined our vision.
He changed our hearts.
He taught us that forgiveness doesn’t mean pretending something didn’t happen. It means refusing to allow what happened to determine who we become.
We learned that our responsibility was not to win every battle or defend ourselves against every accusation.
The battle belonged to God.
There were external wars, but we learned not to make them internal wars between one another.
Instead of allowing hardship to turn us against each other, we allowed it to turn us toward each other and toward Jesus.
And that changed everything.
The very things the enemy meant for evil, God used for good.
The places where we experienced lack became places where we learned God’s provision.
The places where we experienced betrayal became places where we learned forgiveness.
The places where we were wounded became places where God taught us how to minister to others.
And the places where the enemy tried to attack us became places where God began to establish us.
Looking back, we can see that God wasn’t wasting any of it.
He was forming us.
He was refining us.
He was teaching us to look more like Jesus.
Our struggles didn’t become our identity.
They became part of our testimony.
And perhaps that’s one of the greatest things we’ve learned in marriage: the goal isn’t to build a life where nothing difficult ever happens. The goal is to build a life where, when difficult things happen, Jesus remains at the center of it.
We don’t look back and say, “Look at everything we survived.”
We look back and say, “Look at everything God did.”
And He is still doing it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Our Work: A Life of Service, Discipleship, and Lifestyle Evangelism
The Lord has been so good to us.
He has allowed us to experience so many different things, but underneath everything we do is one heartbeat: God and people.
We love people. We desire deep friendships, meaningful community, and a life centered around Jesus. Our dream is to cultivate a godly community of worshipers who love God, prioritize their families, serve others wholeheartedly, and live lives that point people back to Christ.
When we look back, we can see that our entire journey has been preparing us for what we’re doing now—and for what God is preparing us to do next.
Neither of us has had a straight-line career.
Joshua was raised in a farming family, so agriculture has been part of his life from the beginning. He has spent years learning the land and developing practical skills. Along the way, he has also worked as a pastor, chef, songwriter, poet, businessman, carpenter, fence builder, tiny-home builder, and scholar.
And when I say he has done all of those things, I mean it!
I, Whitney, was raised more in the city, but I’ve always had a love for the outdoors, athletics, and writing. My professional experiences have taken me through fashion, education, finance, coaching, mentoring, business, teaching, child investigations, car sales, and customer service.
On the surface, our experiences might seem completely unrelated.
But we don’t see them that way.
We see them as preparation.
Every skill, every job, every relationship, every difficult season, and every opportunity has equipped us for the assignment God has placed in front of us today—and for the assignments still ahead.
We have learned that you may not always understand why God is taking you through a particular season while you’re in it. Sometimes you only recognize the purpose when you look backward and realize that what felt unrelated was actually preparation.
If there is one thing we would say we are known for—and one thing we believe truly sets us apart—it is our love for Jesus and what we call lifestyle evangelism.
For us, evangelism isn’t only something we do with a microphone in our hand or from a church platform.
It is the way we live.
Whatever God has placed in our hands in a particular season, we want to do it wholeheartedly, with Him and as unto Him.
If we’re building, we want to build as unto God.
If we’re farming, we want to farm as unto God.
If we’re cooking, we want to cook as unto God.
If we’re serving people, we want to serve as unto God.
If we’re raising a family, we want to raise that family as unto God.
We want people to encounter Him through the way we live.
We want someone to watch us working, building, creating, cooking, serving, loving, forgiving, raising children, caring for the land, and loving our neighbors and think:
“There must be a God.”
That’s the kind of life we want to live.
We have a big vision, but at its core, it is very simple: we want our lives to make people hungry for Jesus.
We want someone to look at our marriage, our home, our work, our hospitality, and our community and think, “I want to know the God who changed them.”
As we build toward our future on our ranch and homestead in West Texas, that vision is becoming even more tangible.
We often think about the phrase Jesus used:
“Come and see.”
We want people to come and see.
Come and see how we live.
Come and see what God has done in us.
Come and see what it looks like to build a marriage around Christ.
Come and see what hospitality can look like.
Come and see what it means to work with your hands, care for the land, build something from the ground up, and live with purpose.
Come and see what is possible when you surrender your life to Jesus.
We don’t want our ranch to simply be a beautiful piece of property.
We want it to become a place of rest, restoration, discipleship, hospitality, creativity, and transformation.
A place where people can breathe.
A place where families can reconnect.
A place where people can learn practical skills.
A place where women can be encouraged and equipped to become industrious, loving mothers who understand biblical femininity and the beauty of serving their families.
A place where men can learn practical skills, take responsibility, build, provide, protect, and grow into the kind of husbands and fathers God has called them to be.
And ultimately, a place where people encounter Jesus.
That vision is already shaping the work we’re doing today.
I am currently working as a children’s protective investigator, and I see this season as both an opportunity to serve children and a training ground for what I believe God may be leading me toward in government and policy. I want to advocate for the protection and flourishing of children, while also preparing for the day when I become a mother myself.
My dream is to raise children who love the Lord, running barefoot across our land, surrounded by family, community, animals, gardens, creativity, and hospitality.
Joshua recently began a farm consulting business with the desire to help people move from vision to reality.
From finding the right piece of land, to building a tiny home, to learning how to cultivate the land and develop a more self-sufficient property, he wants to help people create homes and lifestyles that are both practical and fruitful.
And woven through all of it is our creativity.
We love writing poetry, books, and songs. We love building things. We love forging, exploring, taking walks to find wildflowers, chasing sunsets, cooking for people, and simply enjoying the life God has given us.
It may sound like a lot.
It probably is!
But we’ve learned that you don’t have to do everything at once.
You can faithfully steward what God has placed in your hands today while preparing for what He may place in your hands tomorrow.
One assignment can become preparation for the next.
One skill can become the foundation for another.
One season can build upon another until, years later, you look back and realize God was weaving it all together.
That’s what we see when we look at our lives.
We aren’t trying to build a life that simply looks successful from the outside.
We want to build a life that is fruitful.
A life where our marriage bears fruit.
Our work bears fruit.
Our home bears fruit.
Our land bears fruit.
Our relationships bear fruit.
Our children will bear fruit.
And most importantly, our lives will bear fruit for the Kingdom of God.
At the end of the day, that’s what we’re most proud of—not a particular business, title, accomplishment, or project.
We’re proud that God has allowed us to say yes.
Yes to serving.
Yes to learning.
Yes to starting over.
Yes to people.
Yes to hard seasons.
Yes to building.
Yes to trusting Him when we didn’t understand.
And yes to the life He is still unfolding in front of us.
We don’t know exactly what every chapter will look like.
But we know who we’re following.
And wherever He leads, we want our answer to remain the same:
“Yes, Lord.”
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
Where We See Our Industry Going in the Next 5–10 Years
Honestly, we are taking it one day at a time and following God into the unknown.
That doesn’t mean we’re not wise or watchful about what is happening in the world and within our industries. We absolutely are. But our ultimate blueprint and strategy comes straight from Heaven. Sometimes God asks us to do things that don’t make sense in the moment, but we’ve learned that when you look back after obedience, you can see how beautifully He was putting it all together.
That said, we do see some major shifts happening.
Over the next 5–10 years, we believe more people will continue looking beyond the traditional idea of homeownership. Instead of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a conventional house with a 30-year mortgage, people are exploring land ownership, tiny homes, barndominiums, RV living, converted buses, shipping containers, and other creative ways of creating a home. We’ve even seen people use unconventional and recycled materials—glass, tires, metal, pallets—and create homes that are both beautiful and functional.
We believe this isn’t just a housing trend. It’s part of a larger cultural shift.
People are craving simplicity, flexibility, self-sufficiency, and connection.
We see more people wanting to slow down and return to a life where simplicity has room to breathe. We live in such a fast-paced world that people are overwhelmed, overworked, overstimulated, and constantly connected. They’re beginning to ask different questions: What if life isn’t supposed to feel this rushed? What if success isn’t just about doing more? What if I actually want time with my family, time on the land, time to travel, and time to be present?
We’re already seeing this through the growing interest in slow living, intentional mornings, alternative housing, homesteading, regenerative agriculture, and more flexible lifestyles.
Joshua and I call what we practice “Rhythms of Grace.” We intentionally build rhythms into our lives that help us remain present, peaceful, productive, and connected to God. It’s not that we don’t accomplish things—we do. But we’re learning to value being before doing, because when we understand who we are in God, what we do begins to flow from a much healthier place.
So, while we don’t know exactly what the next 5–10 years will look like, we believe we’re going to see a continued movement toward land, alternative housing, self-sufficiency, family, travel, simplicity, and intentional living.
And we’re excited to be part of it.
We’re just getting started.
We want to build a life that is full, colorful, creative, fruitful, and deeply rooted in God—a life that makes room for people, family, hospitality, work, beauty, adventure, and purpose.
A life that, when we look back, doesn’t just say we were successful.
It says:
We were here. We loved deeply. We built something meaningful. We followed God. And we left this earth a little more beautiful than we found it.
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