About Us

Our Mission

At Divergently Created, we believe different isn’t a flaw—it’s part of the design.

We create faith-inspired products for neurodivergent Christians and for the families, friends, advocates, and allies who walk alongside them.

Every design is rooted in one core belief: following Jesus has never—and should never—require pretending to be someone you’re not.

We create things that help people feel seen, understood, encouraged, and free to be exactly who God created them to be.

We also create products that help families, friends, and allies challenge assumptions, start important conversations, and encourage churches to become communities where neurodivergent people are welcomed, supported, and given room to belong.

Our hope is simple:

To create things that start conversations, offer encouragement, spark a little laughter, and remind people that different can be beautiful, meaningful, and completely on purpose.

Welcome to Divergently Created.

Here, normal is not a requirement.

 

Our Motivation

We’re a family of neurodivergent Christians— at least mostly. The dad is just “untested” as the kids like to joke.

Fitting in has never exactly been our family’s specialty, but one of the places where belonging has been hardest is the local church.

My wife struggled in school but might have earned the highest test score of her life on her adult ADHD assessment. 😉 Our three children are all diagnosed with AuDHD with levels 2 or 3 autism.

Let’s just say the church’s “Come as you are” sign isn’t as true for families like ours as we would like it to be—which is why we are trying to change things. 😊

We brought to church eloping, hitting, autistic meltdowns, and a six-year-old who refused to leave the three-year-old classroom. We saw our son make adult volunteers cry. We were the parents sitting at the very end of the back row because we never knew when someone would come and tell us it was time to pick up one of our kids.

Today, our children attend the main service with us. Partly out of necessity and partly because we are their safe place.

Our boys can’t manage a typical church classroom. One of them couldn’t even manage the church’s sensory room. Our daughter wears headphones and sometimes has to leave the building—yes, the entire building—because the worship music is too loud.

And we’re still in that last row.

You’ll find us there with sticker books, paint-by-number apps, chewing gum, and bodies arranged in any number of positions that weren’t intended for chairs.

It may not look like everyone else’s version of church—but we’re there. We’re worshiping. We’re succeeding in our own way.

My wife was eventually given the opportunity to step into a leadership role in our church’s youth ministry. By making a few thoughtful changes, she helped church leaders see something important:

Neurodivergent children cannot simply be told to adapt to a church environment that wasn’t designed with their needs in mind.

But when we listen, remain flexible, and provide the right tools and support, we can transform that environment. We can create churches where neurodivergent children and adults aren’t merely accommodated, but are genuinely welcomed, valued, and given the opportunity to thrive.

So we create products that say what families like ours sometimes struggle to put into words:

We are here. We are struggling. But… We also have a purpose. And We belong.