Freedom From Terror

by | Nov 25, 2013 | Life Issues

This is the fourth story in our “Freedom From…” Series, an 8-week series featuring women who have faced adversity and found freedom in the process. Our story today is from my friend, Hannah (name has been changed), who was raped many years ago. It was then that she...

Freedom From Fear and Insecurity

by | Nov 5, 2013 | Life Issues

This article is the first in our “Freedom From…” Series. In the next eight weeks, we will feature a new woman each week that has faced adversity and found freedom in the process. We hope that reading these stories can help you face your own battles, that these...

Four Ways to Manage Fear

by | Aug 15, 2013 | Life Issues

I’ve dealt with fear my whole life. Some of my earliest memories are shrouded in fear. Not that I really had much to be afraid of, growing up in a safe, loving home, but for some reason I’ve been afraid. Of everything. I was afraid of school, new experiences, even...

Parental Peace

by | Jun 19, 2013 | Life Issues

For all my elementary years, I rode a bus to my school eight miles away. My town did not have an elementary school. It had the Junior High and High School combined in one building, shared by ours and three other towns. When I began seventh grade there wasn’t a bus to...

No Fear?

by | Oct 17, 2012 | General, Life Issues

My first and second times in an airplane were international flights. Both times I flew from Minnesota through Houston and onto Guatemala City for mission trips. The first trip was a huge success and had gone smoothly. I had come to love the Guatemalan people, so when...