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 […]

      That Friday afternoon we sat there on the couch. The old leather one with the tear in it from its previous life in the home from which it had been donated. “Bible Man” played in the back room  for energetic little boys who love a good battle.  Meanwhile, Mommy and Miss Sandy […]

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 didn’t want to do it. I didn’t go looking for it.  But He kept bringing the ideas to me. And kept confirming it through random conversations I would have…. ~”The girls in this school really need women pouring into their lives.” one staff woman says to me. ~Out of twenty kids, when asked what […]

Dirty finger nails… His hair in a thick ponytail falling down his back with little wisps protruding in every which direction… various colors of speckled paint on his skin… a sweet smile that was a bit higher on one side of his face than the other but disarmed you faster than you could expect… a […]

When we finally stop trying to earn the favor of God and begin simply resting in the favor the Saviour has earned for us, this life-changing thing happens…. Instead of desperately trying to do more, we rest more. Instead of the pressure to perform, we patiently wait for instructions. Instead of being driven by the […]