Meet Jania Mckenzie of Fashioned In Favor

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jania Mckenzie.

Hi Jania, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Thank you so much for having me. As you stated my name is Jania Mckenzie, I’m a wife, a mother, the owner of Fashioned In Favor,  but most importantly a daughter of the King. Fashioned in favor was birthed out of darkness pain, and hurt….

When I found out I was expecting my 3rd child I experienced my first depressive season… at the time my marriage was in shambles and we were talking divorce… so finding out I was pregnant completely rocked my world, I immediately said to myself why is this happening… my pregnancy was a waive of ups and downs emotionally and my marriage was barely making it… once I gave birth to my beautiful daughter, postpartum kicked in and it was kicking my behind…

I was crying every day, I was unable to breastfeed because I couldn’t produce milk because I wasn’t eating, this went on for months and no one had a clue what I was going through…. One night I cried for what seemed like an eternity, I didn’t have anyone I felt like I wanted to bother so I just started talking to the “ceiling” I was angry, I was hurting I was so fragile and was completely broken, I cried myself to sleep…

I woke up the next day and I felt different… I didn’t know what that feeling was then; but I know now it was the beginning of my transformation… and each day after that I cried less and less I began to go from why me to why not me…

That was my purging season God literally made me throw up everything I had known before Him, and it was the hardest thing I had ever done, but I kept going through it…. And healing began

I was suddenly on a mission to find my purpose, what was I on this Earth to do, God had brought me through all of this ugliness for a reason… This began my season of surrender, I prayed daily for God to use me as he saw fit, God what is it that you would have me do to bring glory and honor to your name…

Then one day, it happened! I was washing clothes and as I was moving from the washer to the dryer, and the vision for Fashioned In Favor popped in my head the way that electricity fills a light bulb… the name, the mission, and the impact it would have was all laid out… at that moment I knew God had spoken

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
A smooth road? Absolutely not, the biggest struggle along this journey especially in the beginning, was me and my lack of self-worth. I wondered what would people think, what would they say that now I’m for lack of better words preaching about God? I worried about people who knew my past and if they’d think I was a fake…. I was scared of making God look bad.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Fashioned In Favor?
Fashioned In Favor is a Christian Lifestyle brand that is dedicated to encourage millennial believers to recognize who they are and WHOSE they are in Christ.

Our scripture-based apparel stand in the gap of God’s Kingdom and the Culture.

Our mission is to inspire and really walk alongside other believers that are tryna figure this whole thing out, strengthening and deepening our relationship with God, understanding perfection isn’t the goal…

Fashioned In Favor is so much more than words on t-shirts; we are a community. We’ve done dozens of in-person events, monthly devotional challenges, and we’ll be hosting our very first meet-up this year!

What matters most to you? Why?
What matters most is that when you see me, you see the favor of God. I pray my story and testimony is proof of just how good God is…

Pricing:

• T-shirts 25.00
• Sweatshirts 30.00
• Hoodies 45.00

Contact Info:

• Website: www.fashionedinfavor.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/fashionedinfavor
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/fashionedinfavor

Image Credits
Bri Michelle