Jennifer and Jeromy Diebler (FFH)


How long have they been married?

Jennifer and Jeromy have been married six years and have worked together for seven. They haven't any children, yet.


How did they meet?

They met in 1994 at a Rich Mullins' concert during Gospel Music Week in Nashville, Tenn. Jeromy traveled from Pennsylvania and Jennifer from her home in St. Louis, Mo., to attend the concert. Mutual friends introduced them, and it was interest at first sight. "The first thing she ever asked me — and she didn't even know me — was to hold her purse because she wanted to get closer to the stage," says Jeromy, laughing. They were married a year later.


How did Jeromy propose to Jennifer?

In April 1995, Jeromy bought a dozen red roses and proposed to Jennifer over the microphone at the conclusion of an FFH concert in Lancaster, Penn. Jennifer, who was in the audience with both of their families, was shocked! Jeromy had made up this big story that he would never propose at a concert because it was serious ministry time. He was just trying to throw her off, and he did. "I don't think she said yes right away. I think her first words were, 'I'm going to kill you,'" says Jeromy, chuckling. They were married in November that year.


What are the benefits of working together in the studio and on the road?

Jeromy: It's awesome to not have to leave your wife.


What is the downside of working together?

Jennifer: We're together all of the time and it's hard for us to ever be alone and have our own space. After seven years, we have become used to being together all the time. Now, on the few occasions we're apart, it's weird.


How does being on the road so much affect their relationship?

Jennifer: We live with eight or nine other people on a bus.

Jeromy: Our relationship is different when we're on the road. We're with a bunch of people so we don't get a lot of alone time. I feel more disconnected from Jennifer when we're on the road. (They are on the road about 150 days a year). The morning is our sacred time. Sometimes before Jennifer gets up, I will get off the bus and go to the hotel. We try to give each other space because we know that's something that is important to both of us.


How do they keep their romance alive?

Jeromy: What romance [he laughs]? Sometimes, instead of eating catered meals with the group, the two of us will go out to lunch or dinner. We try to remind each other that we are married. It's hard, though. You may think that our life is glamorous and we're staying at four-star hotels and dressing up all the time, but we're not. We're crammed in a bus. We sleep in separate beds 150 days out of the year. It's not glamorous.

Jennifer: Jeromy is pretty romantic. He writes me cards telling me what I mean to him.


How does working together affect their spiritual life?

Jeromy: We always have someone to bounce our ideas off of. We both have been learning and growing as the Lord teaches us. A few months ago, Jennifer was telling me the Lord was sharing with her things that she had set up as idols in her life. Because of being around her, I said, "I think I need to search myself for that too." If we had regular jobs and got home around 5 or 6 p.m., we wouldn't be concentrating on the spiritual things as much as the day-to-day aspects of life.

Jennifer: I think it makes us accountable to each other. Jeromy will find me in the morning and we will pray together. We also pray at night. That reminds me to keep my focus.