My name is Kelly Delp – I’m a pastor, freelance content writer, and coach.
I grew up in church and was involved in ministry from a young age, which at the beginning mostly included worship leading and songwriting. When I was 26, I graduated from university with my degree in English Education and immediately moved to Paris, France as part of a team to launch a new international church in the west suburbs of Paris. I ended up spending 11 years there, serving as a worship leader, associate pastor, and finally as lead pastor of The Bridge International Church. My years there were formative – I failed and succeeded in ways I never dreamed.
In 2019 I met a boy on a dating app and we had the dreamiest first date in Paris. Little did I know I was falling for a guy on (quite literally) the other side of the planet. We dated between Paris and Kelowna, BC Canada, navigated closed borders during COVID, and ended up getting engaged in September 2020 at the Louvre. We did a tiny COVID wedding in February, 2021 in Kelowna and it was there, at the age of 37, I became a wife and a stepmom to our son. I went back to Paris to close down my life there and discovered our daughter was on her way.
I moved to Canada in July of 2021, several months pregnant with our daughter. She joined our family in November of 2021.
In the middle of navigating our blended family life, I came on staff at Evangel Church in Kelowna as Discipleship Pastor and am honoured to be part of the lives of such wonderful people here.
I love resourcing other people in ministry, talking about the leadership lessons I have learned, sharing my adventures in Paris, and using it as an outlet to share my view of the world. Thanks for joining me in this journey!
If you are new here, you might want to start with a few of my favorite posts:
On Grabbing and Stuff
If She’d Been Healed
They Named Me Bold
Dear Single Girl (An Open Letter)
To Women in Ministry
On Grief
Some Things I Love:
- Dill Pickles
- French butter
- The sound of an orchestra tuning
- 90’s music
- White queso
- Prince
- Strong coffee with real cream
- My dog Sawyer, the best dog in the United States
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