Cindylou first served with SIM in 2019 when she spent 3 months at the Mongu Youth Centre in Zambia teaching art as part of an outreach effort. She then returned to the centre to serve long-term in 2022. Cindylou has combined her creative gifts (in painting, scarf-painting, etc.) with her trauma healing training to minister to the youth in Mongu. Cindylou's desire is to see God's creative gifts used as part of trauma healing, to bring people out of the darkness and into the light, as He did with her. Cindylou is blessed with a son and daughter and five granddaughters.