Jennifer Veary

Jennifer Veary has been serving with He Intends Victory since 1994.   After she graduated from Marquette University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Jennifer worked in numerous areas of Critical Care. Eventually, Jennifer moved to Southern California working both at Cedars Sinai Hospital and UCLA Medical Center. In 1991, Jennifer received a phone call from an old boy friend who, having just tested positive for HIV, encouraged her to be tested. Jennifer also tested positive. Her closest friend, a committed Christian, encouraged Jennifer to know that God loved her, and to get involved with a church for support. Jennifer asked Jesus for His help and gave her life to the Lord that all of this might be used for His Glory. She is now ordained as a licensed minister with a Masters Degree in Biblical Counseling,

Today, Jennifer is an international AIDS Educator with He Intends Victory. In 1997 Jennifer was married to Rusty Veary of Huntington Beach, California. Together they have a powerful testimony: Jennifer, sharing how God has used HIV in her life to bring her to a relationship with Him; and Rusty, sharing the love and compassion of Jesus, marrying someone with HIV (he is HIV negative) and dispelling many myths and fears about the virus.

Speaking at colleges, universities, seminaries, and schools around the United States, Jennifer continues to share Jesus as the hope for those facing HIV. From Willow Creek Church to Golden Gate Baptist Seminary to Cypress College, she educates the church and the youth about this virus. She challenges people to overcome their fears providing factual information about the virus, and to reach out with love and compassion for those who are infected.

Jennifer also travels around the world providing HIV/AIDS education.  From Singapore to South Africa, from to Belize to Russia, she boldly shares what Jesus has done in her life. In Australia, Taiwan, England, and Indonesia Jennifer has “put a face on HIV” to help reduce the stigma surrounding this disease.

Together Jennifer and Rusty have traveled throughout Southeast Asia, and lived in both Vietnam and Malaysia, helping to develop the chapters of He Intends Victory in these countries.