Based On Faith was founded by Crystal G.H. Lowery in 2012. Crystal is also the principal and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC, a firm dedicated to estate planning, elder law, Veteran planning, business planning, and entertainment law.
The ministry was formed as a response to what Crystal saw and experienced in her law practice. Crystal enjoyed practicing law in a positive and creative way. However, she consistently experienced a lack of knowledge in the general population, even with those clients she worked with who were professing Christians. The knowledge gap that she recognized was two-fold. One aspect was just relating to factual information relating to law and faith. The second aspect was integration of law and faith.
Crystal began to speak to various groups and organizations as well to teach courses relating to estate planning. However, more and more she became uncomfortable and disturbed by the traditional teaching and wisdom of estate planners and financial planners. She saw the fear in the eyes of precious people when they asked questions and wondered if they were making the right decisions. This prompted Crystal to take a good hard look at the subject and do something different, something more in line with what the word of God teaches. Crystal looked at her process and at each step along the way in the decision making process and evaluated it according to faith based principles. What she found was more and more inspiring each time. The subject matter she practiced influenced all aspects of one’s life and family and as a matter of desperation, must be looked at from the correct lens. The desire to share this information was so overwhelming that Crystal founded Based On Faith. Based On Faith began simply from Crystal writing relevant articles she shared twice a week on the Based On Faith Blog. The response she received was very affirming in that people were searching for answers.
Crystal speaks to groups, organizations, and churches as well as continues to write. The goal is to shed light on darkness. A common quotation we hear is that we can’t expect for anything different to happen if we keep doing the same thing. This is what Based On Faith strives to do – to inspire and help people to think and live differently from traditional or orthodox patterns. Based On Faith is excited by the necessity of an opportunity to fill a gap to help people. Based On Faith uses personal methods and cutting edge technology to share its message, but the message remains the same – it is Based on Faith.
Crystal earned a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations from Virginia Tech, and earned a M.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Producing and Directing for Film and Television from Regent University School of Communications and the Arts. In addition, she earned a J.D. from Regent University School of Law.
Crystal is a mother of four children, ages 16, 12, 10, and 9. Crystal believes that a mom is one of the greatest blessings in her life. Crystal was married to her husband, Kevin, for almost 17 years. In 2018, he went to be with Jesus.