Recently an article was published in Christianity Today detailing how World Vision was part of bringing 250 South Sudanese child soldiers home “after years of being forced to serve as soldiers and domestic workers during their country’s civil war.” While reading, I noticed they mentioned children coming back who had “experienced sexual or gender-based violence”…
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Zambia Book Bags for Giving Tuesday
ContinueFor several Giving Tuesdays, I’ve partnered with World Vision and Thirty-One Gifts to bring awareness to different needs around the world. This year we’re looking at the girls in Zambia, who World Vision staffer Deborah Johns visited at their Chipapa Primary School, which is in a remote village 2 hours outside of Lusaka, Zambia. On her…
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Second Guessing & Knowing
ContinueRight now it’s 9:30 here and I just finished a short paper for school. I’m in a Psych class that focuses on the disorders of childhood, and it’s my second week. It’s a hard one. Besides my math class that nearly caused me to stick a spoon into my eyes to avoid seeing x +…
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#GivingTuesday with World Vision and Thirty-One Gifts
ContinueEach year around the holidays, my favorite day (before Christmas) is Giving Tuesday. I love that after all the craziness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there are companies who give back. World Vision and Thirty-One Gifts are two that always do this, and last year matched 1 million dollars in product for donations given.…
{About Me}
Sam and I have been married since I was 19. He was 20. He's an OIF, medically retired veteran of the Army and Marines. We have 5 children - Bella was born in 2009 after a rather bumpy pregnancy and her first year was mostly crazy reflux. Preston and Julian, my identical twins, were born at 20 weeks in 2012 and lived only a few hours. Kaden was born full term in 2013 seemingly perfect, and at 4 days old he was found to have cardiomyopathy due to ciHHV-6. He passed away at 3 weeks old. Charlotte was born in 2015, and was a complete surprise to us. Each of them have changed our lives completely.
Currently I'm in school to become a counselor who focuses on trauma and grief.
I love Jesus - even though sometimes I get really angry and upset at the way our life has gone. I hope through my faults, insecurities, snarkiness, selfish nature, and general mess - my love for Christ and His work in my life shines through in my story.
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