2024 to December 2027
One decision — moving to Fort Worth for Bible school — became a year of formation, perseverance, and community. The road kept going. This is who we are, where we are now, and what is ahead.
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The route
2024 → today → January 2028
00 / When We Encountered the Lord Jesus
2024 to August 2025
Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.Psalm 73:25–26 · NLT
For years, Hailey and I were both searching for the purpose of life. We grew up in different churches — me in the Mormon church, Hailey in non-denominational ones — but the idea that Jesus was the purpose of life never computed for either of us. So we went looking down New Age roads instead: Hailey through drugs, witchcraft, and spiritual practices; me through mathematics, knowledge, spiritual practices, and plant medicine.
Then we met, and we fell completely in love. Four months in — still in love, still chasing truth — we were living 2,100 miles apart when, within a few days of each other, we both had life-changing encounters with Jesus Christ. That was two years ago, in 2024.
Mine happened on a couch in Costa Rica, late at night. I cried out to God and admitted out loud that I doubted Jesus even existed. I asked for a sign, and I got one — and with it, a peace beyond understanding.
Hailey's happened during a Reiki healing session that went badly wrong. Her friend became possessed — speaking in demonic tongues, growling, holding Hailey down so she would receive that spirit for the sake of “healing.” In the middle of it, conviction hit her about how serious it was, and she came back to her senses knowing one thing for certain: Jesus is real.
One month later, my dad baptized us both in the ocean. Five months after that, we got married. We lived in Orange, Texas for seven months before relocating to Fort Worth, after hearing the call to be discipled at Lifestyle Christianity University.
That first year of being saved was harder than anything we had walked through before. It brought more hardship than we thought we could carry — and through all of it, the Holy Spirit kept prompting us, persistently, until we answered. In August 2025, the same week our first year at LCU began, we rededicated our lives to Jesus, were baptized again, and gave our marriage back to Him too.
Jesus taught me to believe that I am a son of God, and to put my focus on loving the people around me.
Andrew
Jesus has transformed my mind, my heart, and my capacity to love others far beyond my own.
Hailey
The faith images above are original, AI-assisted artwork shared as a symbol of belief — not photographs of real events.
01 / The Invitation
Summer 2025
The invitation that moved our whole life was Lifestyle Christianity University. Saying yes meant leaving what was familiar, finding work and a place to live in a city we hardly knew, and trusting the call was real before we could see how any of it would work.
We came anyway. Everything else on this page grew out of that one decision.
02 / We Kept Going
August 2025 to May 2026
We enrolled in late August 2025 and completed our first year in May 2026. Our faith, leadership, and life were stretched in ways we did not expect. We did not give up, and we remain committed to continuing our Associate of Arts in Biblical Studies.
LCU gave us opportunities to learn alongside others, serve, create, and keep showing up through a demanding season.
A step of faith
End of August 2025
The same week our first year at LCU began, we each took a personal step of faith. At the end of August 2025 — a year after the ocean — we were baptized a second time, and gave our marriage back to Him too.
03 / Serving Locally
Year 1
For several months, we volunteered at Essential Church. Service placed us around people with different stories and needs, and it strengthened our desire to be dependable wherever we are planted.
04 / A Home That Gathered People
Year 1
We help host a weekly House Church in our home. We have also hosted or helped organize a baby shower and birthday gatherings, including invitations, food, setup, and making room for people to feel welcomed.
These were not programs or performances. They were repeated chances to prepare, invite, listen, clean up, follow through, and care for the people in front of us.
05 / Friendship In Practice
Throughout the year
Friendship was not limited to events in our home. We participated in gatherings planned by friends, shared meals, spent time outdoors, and learned the value of arriving ready to contribute rather than needing to lead every room.
06 / Practical Stability
November 2025 to July 2026
The year was not only about visible moments. It included building the practical consistency that holds everything else up.
07 / Ready for What Came Next
June 2026
We finished Year 1 still learning, still together, and more certain of the direction than when we started. What we thought was a one-year season turned out to be the first stretch of something longer — school to finish, a home to build, and people to keep showing up for.
08 / Where We Are Now
July to August 2026
In July we moved out of the home we had been renting. The place meant to come next was never actually secured — our things went in while we waited on a move-in date that never arrived, and then the owners decided to sell. Just like that it was gone.
For a few weeks everything we owned sat in a house we had no lease on, and we did not know where we were going to live. On August 10 we signed for another place and moved in the same day. It is month to month, so it is not settled ground — but the stove works, the air conditioning works, and the lease on the old place closed that same week owing nothing. After the summer we had, that felt like a lot.
We are also praying about and preparing for our family to grow. That is part of why having a home of our own mattered so much this summer.
09 / The Road Ahead
Now to January 2028
We are both continuing at Lifestyle Christianity University through December 2027, then a one-year internship after that. It is a real commitment of time and money, and we are making it on purpose.
The figures below are approximate. The exact balance for each of us is always visible on the school's payment pages.
Partner with us
This part of the page exists because people asked. Several friends have reached out wanting to help with school, the house, or our ministry life — so here is the honest answer, in one place. There is no pressure here. Prayer and friendship carry us just as far.
The biggest need
These open Lifestyle Christianity University's own payment pages. The money goes to the school and straight onto our accounts — it never passes through our hands. Each page shows exactly what is owed, so you always know what you are paying toward.
Paying the school directly is exempt from gift tax at any size and never needs reporting — unlike a personal gift over $19,000 in a year.
For the house, the move, and our ministry life — the things tuition pages cannot cover.
Tap an amount and we'll copy the address for you:
Twenty gifts of $50 would cover a month of rent.
Hailey Powellhaileypowell0425@gmail.com
Zelle never lets a code or link carry an amount — you always type it in your own banking app, which is also why nothing here can charge you by accident. Most apps can set the gift to repeat monthly, and steady partners are what will carry us to December 2027.
We mean this. The people who pray for us and check on us have kept us going more than once.
Gifts are personal support given directly to us for schooling, our home, and ministry life. They are not tax-deductible charitable donations, and we are not a registered nonprofit. Figures on this page are approximate; the school's payment pages are always the exact number.
Andrew & Hailey Rocha
rocha@yahwaylove.com +1 (561) 305-0404
We read everything, and we usually write back within a day or two.
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This page is unlisted, not private. Figures shown are approximate.