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With the hustle and bustle of the growing community, residents seem to always be on the go without hesitation and often without stopping. 

But as the Rogers family knows all too well, living life in constant nonstop motion can take its toll.

“I was struggling with anxiety, kind of in my middle school years, and that’s kind of when I found God,” said husband and father Joel Rogers. “The Bible (was) really helping me out through that time and that’s when my whole, like, journey with ministry started.”

Mishella Rogers, too, has been extremely involved in engaging with the local community, bonding with other mothers over faith and family life. What started as a simple social media post looking to connect with other moms quickly became a community of its own when she decided to create a group to plan meetups.

The group, designed to help moms meet other moms, has already amassed more than 600 members who have found comfort in one another through the shared realities of parenthood.

“A lot of women talk about postpartum depression, their anxieties, and us coming together and supporting each other is so important,” Mishella Rogers said.

Just two months later the Rogers opened their own church, Our Village, a passion project of the family that embraces the importance of mental health.

“We want to speak the real realities of life,” Mishella Rogers said of their church and sermons.

“My dad took his life,” Joel Rogers said. “And that’s kind of ignited a new passion to have kind of a more of a niche in like, helping people with mental health.”

Together, the Rogers, along with their young children Zion, 2, and Shalom, 1, are leading by example, sharing the raw, unfiltered truths of life. Whether that means tending to fussing children during a sermon or reaching out to others in the community, the Rogers’ determination to simply be accepting, welcoming and show love in any way they can, is truly inspiring.