Daphne Steed remembers back to a time when her son, Taylor, lit up a room. “Taylor was a happy, joyful baby,” she recalls. “Now he’s quiet and reserved. I don’t think he knows yet what is hurting him,” Daphne says. But this single mom is confident that Taylor’s pain is rooted in a wound left more…
You never know when you are going to walk through a door and meet a person on the other side who will change your life forever. For Damian Lopez, it happened the day he walked through the door at The River of Life Church in Deming, NM and met Pastor Cesar Chavez (pictured together in more…
Susan seemed to have the life many of the women in her church longed for. Married young to a husband who was well-respected in the congregation, she had five healthy children and the opportunity to stay home and homeschool them. From all outward appearances, Susan was the type of woman that people in the church more…
For all of us who have lived any part of our lives absent an earthly father, admitting the effects of abandonment and dealing with those emotions is difficult. So, sharing my Healing Journey story with you is not easy. But, it’s important. I hope that by telling my story, it may trigger someone else’s journey. more…
This story begins in a small town in the Central Finger Lakes Region of New York, commonly called Wine Country. It is a little piece of heaven to me, abounding with hunting and fishing of all types. The hunt for the wild turkey is my favorite. What a privilege it is to share how God more…
She will never forget that phone call. “Suzanne, this is the school principal.” “Oh no, what now?” Suzanne thought. What she heard next was the wake-up call no parent wants to get. “Your son is suicidal. He needs help. Now.” Suzanne wasted no time getting her son to a therapist who specialized in teen depression. more…
“God, why did You spare me?” That’s a question that Terry Leach looks forward to asking his Creator and Savior one day. But the answer, at least in part, may be unveiling itself to Terry right now as he reaches out to troubled, hurting boys in Virginia. “I could so easily have been one of more…
Somewhere deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, in the poverty-stricken hollers of Kentucky where children are abandoned because their families are just too poor to provide for them, Scott MacNaughton developed a passion for the fatherless. “I spent the most formative years of my life in a children’s home for kids from broken homes,” recalls more…
The abandoned boy’s eyes darted to and fro in a frantic search for his father. “Dad!” he called out. No answer. “Have you seen my dad?” he asked the man standing next to him who could only shake his head no. The panic-stricken boy looked into the sea of faces in front of him…not there. more…
It was a crisp, sunny morning in February and the sky over Florida was cloudless and bright—filled with the expectations of a little boy eager to welcome his dad home. Seven-year-old Matthew gazed into the wild blue yonder, imagining the incredible tales from space that his dad, Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband, would share more…
