My Story

Savilla Rasmussen

My personal story

Life, Faith, Confidence

Here’s a bit about me to help you understand why I have founded Impossible Life Stories, and why this is such an important mission for me.

I was born Amish, I have 5 sisters and 4 brothers. We are a close family and I am now lucky enough to live within 10 miles of all of my sisters and my parents. When I was 8 we left the Amish church because my parents were born again.

As a young child I experienced God as very real being. The power of prayer was very real to me when the church had regular prayer meetings.

I have always had a heart for missions and on my 18th birthday I was able to fulfill that dream by spending 5 ½ months on the mission field in Honduras. I was so blessed to have a family provide for me financially and support my dream of being a missionary. When I came home I just wanted to go back. But that wasn’t the plan that God had for me in that season.

Soon after I came back I met my husband and we were married at the age of 20. We were married for 22 years and have 2 wonderful children. In 2019 our marriage fell apart and we were all devastated as I’m sure that anyone that has been divorced knows.

In one of the hardest seasons of my life, I felt like I had no clue who I was and hated myself tremendously for failing so horrifically. But the Lord began to piece me back together. Slowly He put the right people in my life to speak life and acceptance into me. Then He gave me a church family.

The first time I walked through the door of Freedom Fellowship I knew I was home. The holy spirit felt so real there and I recognized him from my God encounters at home. Being in His presence felt like a cool rain on a parched land. It took me a while to get to know the people because still so broken, and very guarded. I would come late and cry for most of the worship service as God healed my heart in ways I still don’t quite understand. Then I would leave as soon as it was over. This routine went on for about 6 months.

Finally I decided to actually stay and open my heart to talk to people and get to know them in a real way. The year 2020 was the most horrific and beautiful God-filled year of my life. God became so real to me that I could now never go back to a life without Him. I feel like He took me and just held me for the whole year while healing my brokenness and replacing all that the enemy had stolen.

He sent my mentor Donna Cappon into my life quite miraculously, I had never met someone with that much love and passion for Jesus. She prayed for me, she counseled me, she cried with me and she taught me to believe in myself. She showed me the way and I walked in it. She is now my closest friend and is like a loving mother. She has stormed the gates of hell on my behalf and believe me when they see her coming they run!

I went from being a shell of a person to believing that with God all things are possible!! I am in my second year of ministry school and have gained amazing mentors, especially Steve Flack, who speaks into my life and has a quiet wisdom that is life changing. He is kind and generous and saw value in me from a fathers perspective that has healed places in my heart that needed a fathers touch.

Impossible Life Stories has started from my passion to sow seeds of hope. The day I caught a glimmer of hope at changing my life and becoming who I really knew I was, I couldn’t live one more day as a lie and untrue to myself. The journey has had its highest highs and its lowest lows but so worth it to truly find God.

My hope is that my own personal journey, and the stories I share here, inspire people to be bold, brave and true to themselves.

“Behold all things are made new.” - 2 Corinthians 5:17