Author | Writer | Speaker | Pastor | Missionary | Humanitarian | Advocate

 My story began in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where I was born during the apartheid era. Growing up in that setting shaped my understanding of injustice, identity, struggle, and resilience. As a woman of Indian heritage raised in South Africa, I have carried both the beauty and the burden of cultural complexity, and those experiences have deeply influenced how I see the world and respond to the pain of others.

In 2011, my husband John and I made the life-changing decision to leave South Africa and move to Canada in response to a call toward humanitarian and ministry work in the Arctic North. We came with faith, vision, and a deep desire to serve. That journey led us to Grande Prairie, Alberta, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, where we poured our hearts into ministry, community, and relationship-building among First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Filipino, African, English, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and many other diverse communities.

Our mission has always been about more than ministry in the traditional sense. It has been about becoming the hands and feet of Jesus in practical, compassionate, and restorative ways. We have long carried a burden for reconciliation, dignity, healing, and justice. Coming from a background shaped by apartheid, we understand the weight of historical pain and the importance of healing across cultures and communities. That understanding has deepened our desire to serve with humility, compassion, and love.

Over the years, our family’s journey has been marked by tremendous contrasts—fire and ice, abundance and lack, belonging and displacement, joy and grief, promise and waiting. We have walked through seasons of deep testing, sacrifice, uncertainty, loss, and rebuilding. Yet through every chapter, faith has remained our anchor. What once felt impossible has often become the very place where God revealed His faithfulness most clearly.

Along the way, we founded The Ark Family Church in Yellowknife, built on a vision of creating a welcoming and restorative community for people of every race, background, and social standing. Through ministry and life experience, I have come to understand that true transformation must touch every area of a person’s life. Spiritual growth matters deeply, but so do emotional healing, mental wellbeing, physical health, healthy relationships, and a life rooted in wholeness. That holistic vision continues to shape everything I do.

Today, my journey continues in Canada with a renewed commitment to writing, ministry, healing, and helping others navigate their own wilderness seasons with courage and hope.