In February of 2015, I was half way through my 24th year of teaching high school students. One cold winter morning, during my first period class, my cell phone began vibrating as it sat on my desk. Seeing that it was a number from the community where my husband...
Lately, I feel that God has been reminding me at every turn the paramount importance of love. After all, isn’t love at the very heart of our Christian walk? Not only does love strengthen and sweeten every other Christian character trait, but it should also...
Hopeless, confused, and ashamed, were all words that described my mental, spiritual and emotional state in June of 2015 when I attended my first RLI conference. After spending nearly 18 years in full-time ministry, I was broken and had lost my identity. Earlier in...
My path to RLI started last July when I found myself in a very difficult season in which many areas of my life had started “crumbling” around me. Unfortunately it was not the first time I had fallen. Despite the fact that I had been in various types of ministry, I had...
Before coming to the RLI Conference, I faced many internal and external trials. My life was inwardly full of fears and outwardly plagued by freak accidents and life-threatening diseases. I contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever and nearly broke my neck in a “freak”...