Reading Time: 2 minutesImage by atl10trader It only took two weeks into hosting a Latvian orphan through New Horizons for Children this summer for Kirk and Beth Bleavins to know they wanted to become her forever family. They fell in love with 14-year-old Vanda’s laugh. And it was heart wrenching to send her back to a place where […]
Archives for January 2011
Ministering to Those at the End of Life’s Race
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo Cheryl Pletcher, life is a race. And in her line of work, people happen to be at the finish line. “If people have lived a good life, we want them to have a good end,” said Pletcher, the executive director of the Carolina Comfort Coalition, a non-profit organization which provides round-the-clock care for terminally […]
The Humbled Homemaker
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m a 30-year-old stay-at-home wife and mother and freelance writer who’s hopelessly flawed on my own but redeemed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I’m a work in progress: the same God who created me in my mother’s womb is still weaving and spinning to make me who He wants me to be. I’m […]


