About the Fit For Jesus Founders

In approximately September or October of 2008, I (Jeremy Nelms) started feeling a prompting to take a new direction in my business… and I was honestly afraid.  But, more on that in just a minute.

As of 2009, I will have been in the fitness industry for 14 years.  My first personal training client was a minister, and I was a college student.  I had a blast, my client got great results, and I was hooked on helping people change their lives.

After graduating college, I went on to get my Master’s degree in Sport Management at Texas A&M University.  I taught there for 6 years, and it was truly an amazing time in my life.

Looking back, it was also an extremely sad and dark time.  The fallout of a failed marriage was used by the Holy Spirit to lead me to Christ… and, praise God with all that is in me, I have never been the same.

The very same day I became a Christian is the day my beautiful, wonderful, and pure blessing of a wife – Alissa Nelms – permanently came into my life.  I shake my head in wonder at the blessings I have been given that I never deserved, both from my Lord and Savior Christ Jesus and for His immeasurable grace in providing me with Alissa and the absolutely amazing relationship and marriage we share.

Alissa, thanks to her wonderful parents and the power of our Lord Jesus, has been a Christian her whole life.  She was also a top 10 national-level figure skater and devoted 10 years of her life to twice daily practices, competitions across the country, and the pressures associated with skating at such a prestigious level.

During this time, she developed a love for physical fitness, immeasurable mental toughness, and discipline that I have yet to see in anyone else.  She is truly beautiful, truly amazing, and I am in awe of her, everyday.

As far as additional fitness background, I led outdoor group fitness classes and owned a yoga studio in TX, ran fitness facilities in Iraq, and Alissa and I owned a high-end personal training studio in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and ran bootcamps in Prescott, AZ.

Which brings us back to the beginning of our story about Fit For Jesus…

In late 2008, the Holy Spirit started prompting me to use the website creation and fitness knowledge I have acquired over my life to create a Christian-based fitness site, focused on shifting the reason that we “get fit” from vain, worldly desires to eternal, spiritual goals.  But, I’ll admit:  I felt scared.

I have strong feelings about the importance and value of health, as well as health’s ramifications on our relationships with Christ and our future in heaven.  But it’s pretty obvious that I’m not a minister.  I’ve read the Bible through more than once and probably read over 50 other books from Christian pastors and writers, but I’ve never been to seminary.  (In fact, I think I got a B in my Christian Heritage class in college.)

But it is in our weakness that Christ shines brightly and works majestically, and so I am excitedly stepping forward, trusting in Him, and finally obeying.

And I feel better, already.  :)

With much love, and God bless,

Jeremy Nelms and Alissa Nelms

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