I'm Sunnie McSherry, the face behind the camera at Redeemed. I am a birth photographer (also specializing in postpartum and family), I work at my local church in our Children's program during the week, a wife to my high school sweetheart, a mom of two beautiful babies, but above all of these things I am a believer in Jesus Christ. This is the foundation of my business and the passion behind my desire to share God's hand in birth and in motherhood. 

 

My journey to this moment began shortly after I was pregnant with my first baby. I have been a Christian since childhood but through marriage and now motherhood I have experienced a deepening in my faith that continues to be strengthened in every season. My first pregnancy was incredibly challenging. I was extremely sick and malnourished from not being able to keep food down for 4 months. My body experienced the first of what would be many surrendering moments to the Lord. After my daughter was born, not just my body surrendered to the intensity of pregnancy and labor, but now my heart.

 

I learned very quickly that having a child will strip you of everything you have ever known. break down every wall you have ever built, and slowly through God's redemptive power will build you back up closer to the image of Christ.

 

When my daughter was 10 months old, I found out I was pregnant with my son. Again, I had to go through another process of surrendering as my body stretched and changed for another 40 weeks. My son's birth was my first one at home, something I had dreamed of since the beginning. It was a beautiful experience, it broke me down in so many ways, and pushed me to the end of myself. After he was born, this strong desire to share with women the ways that the gospel is so deeply intertwined with birth and motherhood continued to stir in my heart. 

 

Flash forward to today; my love for this business began not as a photographer but as a mother myself. I believe this process, from birth to baby is redemptive. It forces us to surrender ourselves to Christ, our rock and our redeemer. In so many ways it reveals to us a snippet of Christ's suffering on the cross and His glory. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 it says "'But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness- so that the power of Christ may rest upon me." This is the message I hope to share. That even in the most pressing, even soul crushing moments of birth and motherhood we can have joy in our suffering for we know... 

 

When we are weak, He is strong!