This Help Meet Corner series is so close to my heart!! So here’s a peek into where my heart is directed right now and looking forward into the future. Recently I shared how I planned to have my children more involved in missions this year. The plans haven’t changed, but I’m…
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Compassion International - Family - Gospel for Asia - Help Meet Corner - Lifesong for Orphans - Missions & Family
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How to Go On a Summer Trip Without Ever Leaving Your House with Wisdom Wednesday Link Up
If you’d like to read this inspiring post, please stop by our new blog, Marriage Motherhood and Missions here to read it. Your mission field is your neighborhood; the harvest field consists of those you come in contact with everyday. Your Hosts …
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A Perspective on Serving
Before I became a mom, for that matter before I got married, I enjoyed going out into the community and serving. I spent years serving in my local children’s hospital, every Saturday morning, I would go in and rock the babies who parents couldn’t be there. It felt good to help, I…
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Families & Missions: Operation G-Force
When I read this month’s topic for Misty’s blog, Families and Missions, I was rather excited. If you have been reading the Barefoot Hippie Girl for any length of time, you know we spent a month on a “mission” trip earlier this year. (here, here, and here) It rocked our…
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Post Revision Issues on WordPress & BlueHost
Has your blog or website been moving slowly? Do you run on WordPress? If you’ve answered yes to these questions, you might want to read this whole post. I’ve struggled with a slow moving blog since I started blogging on WordPress, just over a year ago. I honestly have just…
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Announcing: A New Series with Wisdom Wednesday Link Up
Today I am excited to announce a new series that will kick off next week! I am very excited! Starting on July 3rd, we will begin a series through the Fruits of the Spirit and how we can use them best in our lives as Help Meets and Mothers! I…
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Adoption: A Mission Moment with Lifesong for Orphans
“God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.” Ephesians 1:5 (NLT) Adoption. One of the most beautiful pieces of the Gospel. An all-powerful and loving Father God…
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Dear Wife Who Lives Exhausted
Each day you wake and coffee calls your name….. You race through your days, fulfilling each request you receive, and all your required duties… Breakfast, School, Laundry, Housekeeping, Lunch, Sports, and Dinner all await you……with lots more thrown in between…. From sunrise to sunset, your hands and feet are put…
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Compassion: Mission Nicaragua
I was born an MK……I think I will always think of myself as an MK. I look at pictures and read the words of the bloggers in Nicaragua with Compassion right now, and my heart yearns to be with them. To speak words of hope and a future, of love…
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Vacations are Ruined by…..
Vacations…..oh the planning, what fun it is…..the sunrises, activities and escape from schedules to look forward to! It is so easy to get caught up in planning the perfect vacation…. Which creates certain…..well…..perfect expectations….. Travelling with kids you are bound to have times of imperfection…. Wait…. I’m fully capable of…