Raenel Hebert was born in Georgia to a military family. She has lived all over the world and discovered Jesus when she was six years old living in Alaska. It was during this season Raenel learned to read the Word, memorize Scripture, and began to pray for missionaries. This began her life long journey and love for God and the studying of His word. In her senior year of high school, her dad retired and they moved to Georgia. Raenel studied at the University of Georgia for two years. She married her beloved husband, Alex, a military man. They had their first child, Jason, while living in California and their second child, Nicole, while in Maryland. Her mother was a very Godly woman who had set an example of reaching out to the Japanese while living in Japan. This example encouraged Raenel to share the Gospel with friends while living in Okinawa many years later. When her mother was teaching English to her Japanese friends Raenel had no interest, but later the