Jessica (Logan) Hands

Class of 2007

Posted on June 12, 2023

Jessica (Logan) Hands (‘07) always planned on being a family physician, but during her senior year at Heritage, she says that God intervened and those plans changed. “I went into the operating room with my dad for a minor outpatient procedure and nearly passed out while watching.” She says that is when it was clear to her that the medical field would not be a good fit. After leaning into a friendship she had formed with her Spanish teacher, Beth Bergstrom, going on a mission trip to Honduras, and excelling in her high school Spanish classes (earning Spanish awards for three of her four years), she pursued a double major in Spanish and English Education at Indiana Wesleyan University.

“Praying through a new direction helped make my life trajectory clear.” God had been providing Jessica with the answer and His plan for her life before she even knew that she needed it. “Before I started learning Spanish at Heritage, I saw Spanish as purely an academic subject. But, as I learned the words and grammar and then traveled, God's deeper purposes started to become even more clear.”

Today, Jessica lives in Warrenville, Illinois, and is a Spanish teacher and World Language head at Wheaton Academy in West Chicago and loves helping the next generation of Christ followers find Him in studying other people. “God is the God of all people, at all times, in all places!” Jessica looks forward to seeing all the work that He has started come to fruition at Wheaton Academy.

Jessica looks back on her time at Heritage with deep appreciation, particularly for her science teacher, Mr. Terry, who helped spark an interest in human physiology for Jessica and provided her with a God-loving, Christian education before she knew how much she would need and value it in the future.