If we tell you about our love story, we have to start from the beginning... the very beginning. It was the winter of 1992 when Mitchell Jacob McCain was born and 5 years later it was the spring of 1997 when Monica Ashlyn Fisher made her appearance in the world... Just Kidding!!!

Fast forward to May 2018 when Jake finished his masters at DBU and internship at Sky Ranch Camp in Van, Texas. Following finishing his time, Jake wanted to be closer to his family and so he chose to move back to the great city of Houston, Texas. Shortly after he found Houston's First Baptist church and became involved in the intramural sports program.

Fast forward to winter 2019 when Monica was deciding where to go to dental school and had to choose between Dallas's or Houston's dental school. As a native to DFW, it seems like the easy answer is to choose Dallas, right? Well, the Lord had other plans and made it abundantly clear that Houston is where Monica needed to be (much to her dismay at the time). She moved in the summer of 2020 in the middle of the pandemic and took longer than she should have to find her church home at Houston's First Baptist.

Both Jake and Monica were in the single's ministry at Houston's First and actually attended Sunday School classes right next to each other for a year and a half, but had no clue. They were even invited to the events by mutual friends over that year and a half, but it was never the right time so they didn't cross paths until later. Then one fated summer weekend in 2023, Monica was invited by a friend of hers to come to a going away party for the friend's roommate. Monica only knew her friend, but she's always down to meet new friends so of course she said yes!

It was at this party that Monica and Jake's paths crossed. The moment Jake walked into the room, Monica knew it. He was a friend to all in the room and she even thought he was pretty clever and funny. However, Monica wasn't in a place to date at the time so nothing happened between them beyond the occasional friendly chat at church events for about 4 months until a fall Texas A&M (TAMU) football game.

Jake and some friends, who had gone to TAMU, ended up on the front row of a football after finding the tickets at a very discounted rate the night before. Monica was at the game too... but she was up at the top deck. So... When Monica saw that her friend of a friend, Jake, posted on his Instagram story that he was on the front row... she thought that she might could join after halftime (if there was an open seat of course!) and have a better view of the game. Monica swiped up and commented on Jake's picture.

Some say it was a move and some say it was just an Aggie supporting her team. Either way though, it was the Lord causing two stories to collide at the perfect moment and now they are getting married!