Biography

PASSIONATE • TRANSPARENT  APPROACHABLE • ANOINTED

That's what people say about Bible teacher, speaker, and author CJ Rapp. She connects with her audiences. It's a heart thing. Armed with a mission to encourage, equip, and empower women to be all they can be in Christ, CJ has boldly stepped up to take on the issues women face, tenderly sharing God's truth from His love letter, the Bible. Her passion for God's Word is matched by her desire to see lives transformed by its truth—to know who we are in His sight and how He wants us to live in this mixed up world.

Once a young woman suffering from low self-esteem and the consequences of poor choices, CJ has experienced first hand God's power to change lives. Her life revolved around the pursuit of shallow cultural values: acceptance, beauty, and career. But all they gave her was emptiness. Finally at the end of her own resources, she gave her life to Christ, and found a new beginning. Gradually, gently, God began to transform her heart, thinking, attitude, and actions. In time, her low self-esteem was exchanged for a rock solid identity in Christ. Encouraged by her husband john, and sons Dillon and Austin, she answered God's call and began ministering to women.

God is now using CJ's past experiences to connect her heart with the hearts of women across the nation. Today, CJ understands the power that words and cultural messages have on a woman's sense of worth. She knows the power of poor choices to keep a woman from believing God will use her. She comprehends a woman's need for significance in a world that marginalizes her contributions to society. She is tireless in her quest to encourage women to live the abundant, Spirit-filled, surrendered life. In addition to speaking to women at conventions, conferences, retreats and special events across the country, CJ teaches a Bible study class at her home church, Saddleback Church, in Lake Forest, CA. CJ is founder and CEO of Unfading Beauty Ministries, Inc. (umbi.com) and Infusion Publishing (infuseme.org).