Kayla Andersen is a writer and speaker from Illinois. After living the city life in downtown Chicago, she moved south with her family to plant a church in southern Illinois, right outside St. Louis. Kayla has faced her fair share of waiting periods, delays, and unknowns in the past several years and hopes her story can encourage others. When she’s not writing articles for her small-town newspaper, she travels to speak at camps and retreats across the Midwest. In her free time, she loves thrift shopping, searching for antiques, writing on her blog, and enjoying nature. More of her story can be found at takeitfromkayla.com or on social media @takeitfromkayla.