If you were not with us at our My Story, Our Table event in February, I wish you could have been so that you could have heard the heart of our precious speaker, Jamey Ory. I can in no way do it justice but let me share a few snippets. Jamey overcame many obstacles and hurdles and a couple of not so great relationships of her own before finding her current husband. She speaks of their relationship with tender appreciation and a gratefulness to God for being spouses who are equally yoked. In 2018 they felt the call to become a foster family and responded. What I found…
Ministry Updates April & May 2022
I am so excited, humbled and amazed to be on this journey and I wanted to share a few updates with you. In April, I took 28 continuing education hours of chaplain and crisis training and am attending another 28 hours early in June. All of the Crisis Response Care Training I am participating in at this time is provided by K-LOVE trough https://www.crisisresponse.org . I have found all of the classes to have a wealth of information that I hope to use in my ministry efforts. May brought the unveiling of a report from the Southern Baptist Convention detailing the cover up of sexual misconduct reports on a rather…
Partners of Hope
Living in Oklahoma can be brutal in July and August. High humidity combined with temperatures hovering around the century mark, can be suffocating. That is why it is almost a ceremonial event flipping the page of my calendar from August to September. It makes me happy. It’s funny how a turn of the page can instantly change my mood even though the conditions are the same. The reality is it’s supposed to hit a high of 100 degrees today, and let’s not even talk about the heat index. But it doesn’t matter to me. At some point today I’ll find my way to a pumpkin spice latte to celebrate the…
The Resurrection of a Ministry
I recently sat down with a dear friend for lunch and to catch up on what’s been going on in each other’s lives. The first thing I want to say is I am so thankful for God given friends that are still friends across the gaps of time and distance. Secondly, I have so many friend’s right now that have felt the call of God to ministry and who are questioning how and striving to make it work, so when Lisa shared her story about how God is orchestrating her ministry, I just knew that other people need to hear about it too. When Lisa sent her article to me,…