You know God’s moving and people are repenting when they stop with their frantic activities for God and start listening to Him. On that Sunday morning when worshipping with a local church here in Atlanta, the pastor declared that they had started opening up space in their service for a time of listening for the […]

We had walked through our season of having a very open home, with multiple families and children living with us…. And then we were led into a much cherished reprieve from houseguests… So when my friend, Melanie, that faithful girl who cleans my kitchen EVERY Sunday after Shalom Night, needed a place to stay, I’m […]

  Commissioned to go “plant a church”…. Sent out to go “help” an impoverished, underresourced community…. Called to serve in a place that most would not choose… What does “plant a church” even mean? What are the measurable results to “show” for your work? How do  you know if you are even making a difference? […]

      Three years ago, my “world” lay in shatters. My life purpose was utterly uprooted.  My heart was strewn out, torn from the people and place I loved most deeply. (see below) And God was sending our family to the place I swore I’d never go….to the Bible-belt South with church on every […]

  Hostess. Yes. Hostess with the Mostess. Definitely not. It was the “dinner party” of supposed disaster.  Somehow we had managed to invite three different families over for dinner who 1. had never met each other 2. come from completely different walks of life and 3. had nothing in common with each other.  Danny was […]

There was a plea for prayer…. and there was the answer. And if a picture is worth a thousand words… it saves me a lot of typing…   Christmas Party with classmates at Atlanta Westside Charter School   “But to each one of us, grace has been given as Christ apportioned it…”  Eph. 4:7 And to […]

I know many of you have asked me personally about the different events we had at Christmas and, yes, I am STILL compiling the pictures and getting the update done…But in the meantime, here are some snapshots of what has happened since those events, which, in my humble opinion are some great excuses for why […]