The Global Leadership Summit

The Global Leadership Summit exists to transform Christian leaders around the world with an injection of vision, skill development and inspiration for the sake of the local church. I’m headed off to the Summit tomorrow. I’m so excited. A friend of mine […]

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CAFO SUMMIT10 to be hosted at Willow Creek Community Church

Christian Alliance for Orphans > Summit10 On May 1-2, 2014 the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ annual Summit will be hosted at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago! I went to Summit9 this past May with the leadership team for The Vulnerable Children’s […]

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Stuff and the Language of Letting Go

I like stuff. But I’ve noticed the more stuff I have, the more it attracts more stuff. The bible tells me to run a worthy race, I am to throw off anything that hinders me. It occurred to me yet again today […]

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My Quiet Place

Quiet Place….This is the place I go when I’m undone, when I need to restore. God gives me peace, He helps me to recalibrate. God’s kingdom is counter intuitive. I was brought up to try harder, push through and do more.  This is what the […]

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Why The Local Church Should Start At Home

When it comes to orphans the local church needs to start at home. Unfortunately this is something that many people in the church are unaware of. We see orphans in third world countries living in poverty and feel compelled to act. What […]

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God is Sufficient

I was up a lot last night. Insomnia again. My mind cycling through the tiring thoughts I wish so desperately to be free from. It began with thoughts of the people God has placed in my life. Remembering I take myself back…………. […]

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Blogging Fear

I’ve come again to my blog to write. Writing comes quite easy for me. I dare to say I do it most days, sometimes several times a day. I like to write out my prayers to God. He listens to me with […]

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Jumping for Jesus

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. Exodus 9:16 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order […]

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God’s Call on My Life

When I was nine years old my mom died from breast cancer. The world I knew was blown away like a tornado ravaged city. I spent seven years in a children’s home. No one tucked me in at night. Gone were hugs […]

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The Illinois Masonic Children’s Home

    This photo hangs in the foyer of the dining hall at the Illinois Masonic Children’s Home.I am sitting top and left.     This is the cover of a small pamphlet from during the time I lived in the home. […]

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