The story that started our mission.

Hi, I'm Maria, the founder of The Sweet Mission.

After dealing with an addiction for many years, on top of anxiety and depression, I ended up somewhere I didn't think I'd come back from. I struggled to quit for years. The anxiety made it even worse. I would wake up in the middle of the night with my heart racing and a feeling of doom, and I would go to sleep with my last thought being an anxious one. I feared so many things. The drugs and the mental battles were ruining my life. On the outside things looked fine, but inside I had a battle that seemed to have no escape. My mind was constantly at war. It was so loud in there. My mind couldn't rest, and I felt like I was going crazy. I felt hopeless. Life had no purpose, and if I was going to feel this way for the rest of my life, I didn't want to keep going.

Then my husband suggested we do a fast unto God. A couple of our family and friends would be undergoing surgery in a few days, so we wanted to humble ourselves and rely on God for a positive outcome. At the time, I had no relationship with God and had only just started seeking him out. I didn't fully understand the point of a fast unto God, but I was open to trying it. We fasted for two days with nothing to eat, and instead focused on praying and reading the Bible. It was my first time reading it, and it actually made sense to me. I gave my life to Jesus during this fast. It was the best thing I could have done. It's beautiful how God began orchestrating his gift of salvation for me months prior, and I had no idea. I wasn't even asking him to fix me, because I didn't know he could cure me of everything I was dealing with.

But He did anyway.

In those two days he took the addiction I'd been trying to quit for years on my own, and he took the severe anxiety and the depression with it, and he put love and joy and peace where all of it used to be. The Bible talks about a peace that passes all understanding, and I had already felt it after I gave my life to Jesus, so when I read that verse it made me believe in God even more, because the things the Bible talked about were happening to me.

God instantly renewed my mind. He tore a veil off my eyes, and I began to see him everywhere. He removed the fear I had. These are the miracles people talked about when it came to Jesus, and I was experiencing them all. The Bible describes it as being "born again", and that's exactly what it felt like, a WHOLE NEW LIFE IN HIM. To this day, it's still hard for me to describe what God made me feel and how he completely shifted my eyes onto him. I had a complete shift in my spirit. Everywhere I went I wanted to scream about how much I loved him and how he saved my life, and I really felt like a Jesus freak, but I didn't care because I felt more alive than I ever had. It was unexplainable. I actually wanted to live, and I saw the world in a different light.

The Sweet Mission began after God removed my self doubt. I made it a mission to serve others with sweet treats for their celebrations while sharing the love of Christ. It's an honor to create delicious, customized desserts for my clients, down to the smallest detail. I love my job, and I'm so grateful I get to do this every week. We strive to go above and beyond for our clients. We want them to remember these desserts, and we want the day to be unforgettable for them and their guests.

As The Sweet Mission continues to grow, I want to show other treat makers that a highly profitable dessert business is possible for them too. Anyone who finds joy in building their own business can learn how it all came together from home. God was the foundation as this business grew from the ground up, and now I look forward to teaching others how to do the same and enjoy it from their own home.