How Everyday People Live Out Their Christian Faith

Illustrating how men and women display their love for Jesus in their day-to-day lives.
Little things that may have an eternal impact. Might these stories motivate you to use your talents?
  • Hospital Overcoming Obstacles Special Needs

    NEVER GIVING UP

    In September 2017, my daughter, Jennifer, had just dropped off her three boys at school and was driving to work. Her car veered off the road and went straight into a pole. Her heart stopped. Paramedics tried to revive her three times. Usually after that many attempts, they quit. But they tried once more, and were successful in reviving her. She was rushed to a hospital where doctors tried to keep her alive. In addition to all her severe injuries, the doctors determined she had suffered some brain damage from a lack of oxygen, so they put her into an induced coma. They said this would help reboot her brain. They thought she would wake up once they weaned her off the induced coma, but she didn’t. After a while, the doctors at the hospital encouraged me to take her off life support. They said she would never heal. That if she did wake up, she wouldn’t “be here” and I should let her pass peacefully. But I refused, saying, “It’s not up to us. When God is ready, He will take her.” Friends and relatives hit me with this same advice. They told me to let her go. But I just couldn’t. I felt it was my calling to keep loving her as long as God kept her alive. After a few weeks and, in part, because of this pressure to take her off life support, I had Jennifer transferred to a trauma hospital at the University of Chicago. I would pray every day on the way to the hospital for the Lord to give me… Read More

    September 11, 2024
  • Adoption/Foster Care Special Needs

    SAYING YES TO GOD’S CALLING

    One day, I had a conversation with my husband’s sister where she described a recent dream. She saw my husband holding a dark-skinned little girl and calling him Daddy. This really moved me. A couple of days later, I was scrolling on YouTube, and saw a video of two little boys from the Philippines singing a beautiful worship song together. Once again, I became emotional, and God gave me a vision. He put it on my heart that there was a little girl with chunky cheeks and big brown eyes who needed us. He told me we needed to bring her home to our family. I walked out to the backyard to share this with Stan. Tears flowed from my eyes, and I became convinced that the Lord was showing us what we needed to do. Stan was in law enforcement, and I was a stay-at-home mom. We had always said we would adopt, but we were living on one income with four biological children at home. Because life happens, adoption had fallen to the back burner. We did not know anything about how to adopt internationally or how to care for a child who had special needs. We were walking blindly through faith in obedience to Christ. In 2016, we brought our daughter, Mika Ella, home. With having cognitive delays, being non-verbal, and having bilateral clubbed feet, she had significant special needs. But we quickly bonded with her. We had seen exactly what the orphan crisis was. So many children will never have a family, and that hit us so hard. We left… Read More

    September 4, 2024
  • Food Labor Loving Your Neighbor Recovery

    MEEMAW’S HOMETOWN KITCHEN

    It’s been a long road for me to get to this place. In 2008, I was kidnapped and held hostage for five months. I was pregnant and scared. From the beginning, my ex had an ulterior motive to have a child with me. He took advantage of me, and the family said to marry him so as not to embarrass them. When I tried to leave, he stabbed me in the abdomen. I managed to escape when my daughter was three months old, but he followed us and nearly beat me to death. Because he was well-known in the community, there were little consequences for him. After my escape, I asked my best friend if he would be willing to act as my bodyguard. I asked, half-jokingly, but he said yes. We soon fell in love and were married after only six weeks. He knew cooking or being in the kitchen was difficult for me because that’s where I had been attacked. So he usually did all the cooking for us. It was unexpected when I mentioned I wanted to try to make sourdough bread. He was super supportive, but it was still a shock. After mastering bread-making, I branched out to make dinners for our Bible study. I learned I genuinely loved to feed people. In April of 2024, we only had an extra $20 in our bank account. Starting a restaurant was honestly a laughable idea, but I told my husband if it was God’s will, it would happen. Only a few days later, we were handed a check for the seed money to start… Read More

    August 28, 2024
  • Overcoming Obstacles Recovery

    FLOURISHING AFTER A SHARK ATTACK

    Ali Truwit has quite an inspiring story of courage, determination and Christian faith. In May of 2023, Ali lost her foot, and almost her life, when she was brutally attacked by a shark. Now, just over a year later, this young lady will represent the United States in the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The Attack Ali had just graduated from Yale in May of 2023, and to celebrate, she took a trip to Turks and Caicos with her best friend, Sophie. The two of them had been teammates on the Yale University swimming team. While snorkeling in the beautiful ocean waters, a shark quickly appeared and attacked them. Ali and Sophie fought back, and Ali felt a horrible pain in her leg. The shark had ripped off her foot and part of her leg. Then the two girls swam 75 yards in the open ocean toward their boat. “I was bleeding profusely,” Ali recalls. “Both of us knew the shark was still circling. But we had to get back to the boat to save ourselves.” When they reached the boat, Sophie quickly applied a tourniquet on Ali’s leg to stop the bleeding, saving her life. Truwit was airlifted to a Miami hospital in Miami, where she underwent two life-saving surgeries. It just so happened that one of Ali’s closest friends, Hannah, was doing her medical school rotations in that same trauma hospital. Hannah was able to be by her side during those difficult hours before Ali’s parents arrived. Ali was later transported to a hospital in New York to be closer to her family. On her… Read More

    August 19, 2024
  • Labor Loving Your Neighbor Mission Work

    KINDNESS THROUGH LETTERS

    My desire to help people began a couple years ago with writing five heartfelt letters of encouragement to soldiers, inmates, and others who needed hope in their lives. But the number of letters I've written has now grown to over four thousand. It reminds me of when Jesus took two loaves of bread and five little fish, and ended up feeding five thousand people. By sharing God’s love with others in these letters, I want them to see that God is good. Sharing God’s Word is food for the soul. During the Covid pandemic, the world was in such a dark place. In my heart, I felt I needed to do something to bring hope where there was none. I prayed God would lead me to a ministry, and that is when I began the Kindness Through Letters Mission Project. Searching through sources, such as Facebook, or doing a search online, helped me get the addresses for service members, prisoners, and others to mail my letters. A little backstory about myself: my name is Allison, and I am 27 years old. I was born a preemie at 25 weeks, and I have mild cerebral palsy. Although I have had a disability throughout my entire life, I knew this was something I wanted to do. The Kindness Through Letters Mission Project is a way for me to spread the Word and tell others about God. I have handwritten each letter personally, which I thought would be more difficult than it has been. From the beginning, this has been much easier than I anticipated. It has… Read More

    August 14, 2024
  • Loss Of Loved One Unique Ministries

    NEVER ALONE WIDOWS

    In 2001, at the age of 23, I became a widow. My first husband, Todd, had a massive aneurysm at 27 years old. At this time, I knew the Lord, but I didn’t know Him in the hard places. Through worship, I learned who God wanted to be to me. I was grieving, but not grieving well. I didn’t know any other widows who were my age, young without children. The ones I did know were in their eighties and felt I just couldn’t relate to them. A couple years passed, and I began dating a family friend, Blair. He was a fighter pilot who flew A-10s. We dated a short while and married in 2003. Life was beautiful once again. We got pregnant with our first child in New Orleans but had to relocate due to Hurricane Katrina. We moved to Mississippi, had our baby and later, another child. Blair wound up training the next generation of pilots. We were busy with family, church and worship. Things were good, but my grief was building. In April of 2008, when our first child was two, Blair went out to fly with one of his students. As they took off down the runway, a cable broke, causing the plane to flip with a full tank of gas. Both men were ejected and were instantly killed. I was now a widow for the second time in my life. I did not have the emotional maturity to process so much sadness, but I clung to The Word and the promise that we are to grieve with hope. “Brothers and sisters,… Read More

    August 7, 2024

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