Hello, I’m Emily, Bible, believing mother of four living with my family in the Bay Area of California! I’m a retired barista and military brat who grew up in a small town in Germany and always dreamed of the kind of mother I would become.
One day I was done with the chaos and took a sharpie to a piece of stock paper I bought at Walmart, wrote down rules and values, and creating a roadmap to get me out of the chaos that I had created for myself.
You’re here now because of that! There is a movement of parents choosing to become obedient to Christ, and I’m so thankful we get to grow in our faith as parents, mothers, and women, together. I wish I had the community, the resources, and the roadmap when I needed it years ago, which is why I created it. Welcome!
BELIEVER. WIFE. MOM OF FOUR. STORYTELLER. AND I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE.
About emily j waits
about the woman behind the movement
This is what happens when a mother opens her bible instead of a parenting book.
cultivating obedience in our hearts and homes
raising biblically rooted children while creating a life of impact raising biblically rooted children while creating a life of impact raising biblically rooted children while creating a life of impact
I believe that the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, written through the hands of man and breathed out by God himself. It is 100% true. It does not contradict itself. It does not fail. It is all sufficient for every need we have — in parenting, in marriage, in relationship with one another, and in communion with God.
I do not look to culture, to experts, or to the wisdom of man as my primary authority. Scripture is enough. It has always been enough. It will always be enough.
On Scripture
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I believe in one God who exists in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is omniscient, knowing all things past, present, and future. He is omnipotent, all powerful and sovereign over every detail of creation. He is omnipresent, going before us, walking beside us, and never forsaking or forgetting us. His plans are good. His sovereignty is not a threat.
It is the greatest comfort available to a human soul. He is not surprised by anything that happens in my life or in this world. He reigns. Completely. Always.
On God
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I believe that salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. I believe in the sovereignty of God in salvation — that he knows his children and that his knowledge of them is not dependent on their choosing him first. And I believe that this truth does not make the great commission optional.
We are called to preach the gospel, make disciples, and grow the kingdom of God. Everyone is welcome at the foot of the cross. Our job is to make sure they know it is there.
On Salvation
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I believe that every human being born into this world is born into sin. We are not basically good. We are broken. We are in desperate need of a savior. Because of Adam and Eve and the reality of original sin we are all fallen, all broken, and all living in a world that bears the mark of that brokenness.
There is not one person who has ever lived a perfect and sinless life except Jesus Christ. He alone is without sin. He alone is the atoning sacrifice for ours. Apart from him we are lost.
On Sin and the Nature of Man
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I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He was born of a virgin. He lived a fully human and fully divine life. He was perfect and blameless in every way. He was crucified, died, and was buried. And on the third day he rose from the dead, conquering sin and death, and securing eternal life for all who believe.
He ascended to the right hand of the Father where he is preparing a place for his people. And he is coming back.
On Jesus Christ
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I believe that the Holy Spirit dwells within every believer the moment they confess Christ as Lord. He is not a feeling. He is a person. He is the third member of the Trinity and he is our daily companion, our comforter, and our intercessor before God. We do not need a human mediator between us and God. We have the Holy Spirit.
He is sufficient for that role. He leads us into truth, convicts us of sin, and empowers us to live in obedience to Christ.
On the
Holy Spirit
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I believe that the local church is not optional for the Christian. It is a beautiful and necessary body of brothers and sisters who gather together to fellowship, to be fed the Word of God, to be held to a standard, and to live life together in Christ. Do not neglect meeting together. Even when it is hard. Even when you are postpartum. Even when it is inconvenient. You need the body and the body needs you.
Find a church that feeds you a feast and expects you to eat it. A church that preaches the whole counsel of God without apology. A church that makes you more like Christ not more comfortable in your sin.
On the Church
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I believe that marriage is a covenant between one man and one woman. A man is born male — XY chromosomes. A woman is born female — XX chromosomes. This is biological, God ordained, and not subject to personal preference or cultural redefinition. In marriage a husband and wife forsake all others, leave their father and mother, and cleave to one another. The husband is the head of the household. He is called to lead his family sacrificially, to serve them, and to love his wife as Christ loved the church — laying his life down for her. The wife is called to submit to her husband and to be his helper. This is not oppression.
This is the most beautiful and countercultural design God could have given us and I embrace it fully and joyfully.
On Marriage
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I believe that my primary role as a mother is to disciple my children. To raise them to know and love God. To form them into the likeness of Christ through consistent discipline, faithful instruction, and intentional family culture. I treat my children as Christians before they have made the decision to be one — catechizing them, reading Scripture with them, worshipping together as a family, and holding them to a standard rooted in the Word of God.
I discipline my children so they see their sin. I shepherd their hearts so they see their need for Christ. I do not exist to make their lives comfortable. I exist to point them to their savior.
On Parenting
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I hold to an amillennial view of eschatology. I believe that we are currently living in the kingdom age — the time between Christ's first coming and his second. I do not believe in a literal thousand year reign on earth before the final judgment. I believe that Christ will return bodily and visibly, that the dead will be raised, that all people will stand before God in judgment, and that those who are in Christ will enter into eternal life in the new creation — a renewed heaven and earth where God dwells with his people forever, where there is no more sin, no more death, no more sorrow, and no more pain.
That is the hope I live toward. That is the future I am raising my children for.
On the End Times
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Parents are closing the parenting books and opening their Bibles. Mothers are taking down the reward charts and putting up rules rooted in Scripture. Families are building something intentional and countercultural and deeply rooted in Christ and they are finding each other here.
I did not set out to build a movement. I set out to fix my own home. But what God did with a sharpie and a piece of stock paper from Walmart is something I could not have planned and would not trade for anything… I was the mom who was drowning in survival mode, my house was ran by a three year-old, and now I help lead thousands of families out of that same chaos and into obedience. I help thousands of families rebuild their homes to have a strong biblical family culture, that makes obedience the fruit in their home, not a fight.
This is a community of parents who believe that obedience to Christ is the foundation everything else is built on. In their homes. In their marriages. In the way they raise their children. In the culture they are creating for the next generation. You are not here by accident. Pull up a chair.
Something is shifting in homes across the world. Parents are closing the parenting books and opening their Bibles.
the woman behind the movement
I launched The Edified Village. I provided a space where we could have a true modern day Titus two community. Where we could feed into each other and grow together, inside there are master classes, hangout calls, and a private podcast that takes you deeper than anywhere, I’ll go online.
2026
In June I launched what I had been living in, The Obedient Home. I watched as this course, first of it’s kind, took off like wild fire. Hundreds of people poured in ready to see the fruit i had seen. Eager to find answers in a world that tells us to validate every feeling, and never say “no” to our children. I watched as over 1500 people changed their homes.
2025
I found myself pregnant with my 4th, grieving a traumatic miscarriage, and finding myself lost among the chaos of my own making. I had no control, authority or respect in my home. I was truly at the mercy of a strong willed 3 year old and 2 wild 1 year olds. I knew something had to change.
So I created my roadmap out.
2024
We had so many life changes. Our rainbow babies were born, taking us from 1 to 3 kids overnight! My husband left his job in ministry to better provide for our fastly growing family.
2023
We had our first daughter in January. Finally! Holding a precious baby after 2 losses. Eager to be a good mom and starting all the research on parenting.
2021
Finally tied the knot to the man i was eager to marry! Scott and i got married on his parents property and we looked forward to serving in ministry and having lots of babies together.
2019
I graduated from my homeschool high school, started working at dutch bros slinging shots, and serving under my now husband Scott’s junior high ministry.
2016
my story
