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 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 […]

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 […]

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. Psalm 3:5-6 I’ve been teaching this verse to children (others, and my own!) for the past ten years of ministry. Always known it was true, but usually […]

One could write (or read) a manual on church planting and ministry. There are plenty of good ones out there. But here we are telling the journey of a church planting family (and yes, this is a family endeavor) with play by play accounts of the road less travelled that we walk upon. A husband […]