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When I was pregnant with my second child, my son was about three-and-a-half years old. And you know what they say about kids that age... “Inquiring minds want to know.” Right? Karson had all kinds of questions about the baby that was soon to be joining our family. One day he asked me…
Posted in: General, Women’s MinistriesIf I’d had one of those fancy interrogation rooms and a bright light, I would have used them. But I didn’t, so sitting my three-year-old daughter in a kitchen chair across from me was the best I could do. I wasn’t about to let her big blue eyes and blonde pigtails fool me. This kid was…
Posted in: General, Women’s MinistriesHe stood in the shower, tears mingling with soap, water and pain. She stood at the gravesite. No tears in her eyes, but her stomach was in knots. He looked at his friend and said, “My mom doesn’t know me anymore. The Alzheimers has taken her away.” She stood in the worship service…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryI felt the blood drain from my face. My knees buckled and I grabbed the counter to steady myself when I heard these words. "It's leukemia," my husband said from his hospital bed as he shared with me the results of his blood test. I didn't fully realize it at that time, but from that…
Posted in: General, Women’s MinistriesThere was an intensity in her eyes I could see before she reached me. After shaking my hand, the woman shared how much the song we had sung in the service impacted her. Life was hard and she needed to hear those words, those notes, those voices and those instruments. I said, “Thank…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryIt is one of the worst moments of my life. I was six days shy of my eleventh birthday and, as my six-year-old brother would say later, though the day was called Good Friday, it wasn’t a very good day for us. Instead, there we stood in a sterile hospital room with our dad. We had just…
Posted in: General, Women’s MinistriesWe were newlyweds, married less than a year, when my husband received a job offer that would double his salary. It was one of those offers that was too good to turn down. The problem was that it meant a move to a new city three hours away. When my husband told me the news, I was…
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Posted in: General, Women’s MinistriesOne need not be an observational genius to notice that the life pace of families picks up when children enter adolescence. As both a parent of a teenager and a youth pastor, I feel the sense of conflict, especially regarding involvement with the local church and youth ministry. It’s easy…
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