cristin imani trimble

Discontent with living & loving at surface level, I am a young woman, who’s life’s pursuit is to exist fully abandoned to the Lord. In 2009, as an 18 year old high school graduate, with plans of freedom from rules and restraint, committed to ‘living my life’ however I wanted to—I encountered Christ & took (what I considered to be) a “big risk” and decided to follow Jesus. The more I learned about Him, the more I fell in love, and the more compelled I felt to express it. It just so happens that the expressions showed up in avenues of creativity. Music, poetry, dancing, art, literature; my heart would fill up with ways to say “I love you!” to Christ. I was born into a family with creative parents, so that part wasn’t surprising to me. But what I was amazed by was the ways in which I learned about the creative nature of God, and how the exchange cultivated our relationship. Over the last 15 years, I have had the honor to minister to the Lord in a variety of ways, and the best part that I’ve found out is that there’s always more of Him to know! Imani is my middle name, it’s a Swahili word that means ‘faith.’ I don’t think my parents may have known the weight of the Word the Lord used them to speak over my life, but He’s kind in that way. Imani Faith Collective was birthed from the belief that since God is the ultimate Creator, and all things were made by Him and FOR Him, I’d let every idea, dream, expression (etc.) that He places, in me, flow back to glorify Him. Creativity is not limited to ‘art’ in the way that we see and hear it. Sometimes that sounds like music, sometimes that looks like gathering mothers, sometimes it tastes like poetry flowing from the sweetness of communion, sometimes that feels like pressing on through hardship and oil flowing from crushed olives, but every time, no matter the expression, it’s going to glorify the One, who is worthy of everything!