Our Best Man and Matron of Honor set our introduction into motion when God placed it on their hearts to move to the Quad Cities to plant Pathway Church. Brie was searching for a new church home just as the global pandemic drove most employment virtual and Devin was looking for his first job out of college. Devin expressed interest in helping with the church plant around the same time that Brie met Tanner and Alexa and committed to Pathway's launch team. Alexa and Tanner subsequently decided she was a good fit for Devin and that they would repeatedly mention this to him. We were first introduced at a barbeque on July 3rd, 2020 as Pathway's launch team was gaining traction in the Quad Cities. Soon thereafter, Devin felt a conviction to move to the Quad Cities temporarily to help get the church off the ground and received an offer to work remotely through the pandemic for a company in Cedar Rapids. We met once after church to discuss how to foster community for Young Adults at Pathway and spent the latter months of 2020 working together to get a Young Adults small group off the ground before Devin moved to Bettendorf in January of 2021. We officially began dating at the end of March 2021 and fell in love pursuing God together at Pathway. A lot of personal and worldwide tragedy has come over the last few years, but even--and perhaps especially--in tough times, God grows beautiful things.