Collide’s Story
How Did Collide Get Started?
Several years ago, what began in a counseling office as the work of facing deep childhood pain became holy ground. What once felt like wounds with no purpose would later become the place God brought healing to others.
Collide was born there, where God whispered two words to Willow Weston: wounded collision. She carried unhealed wounds that were starting to wound others, and she longed for a new kind of collision that could break the cycle.
She began running to Jesus with her hurt, and one college-aged girl asked to come alongside her and then invited 20 more. Together, they studied how Jesus collided with wounded people in the New Testament. Over the course of a few years, they didn’t just witness Jesus meeting others’ pain, they felt Him collide with their own. Old wounds began to mend, stories shifted, and hope took root. One friend invited another and another, and what began from brokenness blossomed into a ministry and a movement of women encountering healing, courage, and transformation.
Today, Collide invites women of every age, story, and background—the church-goers, the skeptics, weary moms, lonely college students, the put-together ones hiding hurt, and women who swore they’d never trust again—to run into Jesus just as they are. Through conferences, counseling, mentoring, Bible studies, books, a podcast, church partnerships, and heart-shaping resources, thousands of women each year are finding the courage to stop stuffing their pain and turn to Jesus for healing.
Addicts sit side by side with high achievers. Seventeen-year-olds and eighty-seven-year-olds collide in the same pew. Women carrying wounds from betrayal, abandonment, perfectionism, loss, abuse, grief, and longing show up—and Jesus meets them in the brokenness and leaves them more whole.
Because this is what He does. Jesus collides. He runs into our lives as broken or imperfect as we may feel and leaves us forever changed.
So let’s collide and encounter the One who shows up again and again.
