Madeline Stillwell

Meet Madeline

I was born in Kansas City and was blessed to be raised in a Christian home. While I became really good at following the rules and saying the right things, I was born dead in my sins and was unable to make myself right before a holy God. But God- being rich in mercy was gracious to reveal himself to me and open my eyes to the Gospel in my childhood. While I wanted to trust in my own ability to save, the truth was that only Jesus’s finished work on the cross could save me. The Lord used discipleship, community, and the local church to sanctify me throughout high school and college, and I learned that Jesus was steadfast when everything else in the world left me empty. While the Lord is continuing to sanctify my prideful, controlling, and selfish heart, the truest thing about me is that I am in Christ!

After high school, I went to college at Dallas Baptist University where I studied psychology and was involved in various discipleship ministries. College is also where my heart for God’s word and theology grew as it proved time and time again to be worth clinging to. I firmly believe that as Jen Wilkin says, “the heart cannot love what the mind does not know”. After college, I decided to pursue ministry and went through the Watermark Institute. After the Institute, I married my husband Zach and we moved to Frisco, where he is the director of North Dallas KLIFE. I’m now really grateful to be serving the local church and working with ministries that I am passionate about!