Lorie Coka
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Walking for Water
You’d think walking 3,400 miles across 170 North American cities in only 374 days would be a pinnacle lifelong achievement for one person, but not for Daren Wendell. This was just the beginning of his global trek known as The Earth Expedition (theearthexpedition.com), which he founded in 2006 to raise awareness for the lack of …
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Church on the Front Porch
After spending lunch breaks driving through an impoverished Nashville, Tenn., neighborhood in search of an investment home, Thom Hazelip began feeling an undeniable burden for the people in the community. Forfeiting his upscale home with a pool house in the backyard, he decided to move his wife, Michelle, and four young children to the drug-infested …
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The Face of Love in Southern Sudan
Born without her left hip, leg and kidney, Michele Perry, 32, has faced adversity from birth. By age 13 she had already undergone 23 surgeries. Not allowing her disabilities to sideline her, the Florida native went on to become a missionary in the slums of Bangladesh, India and, most recently, Yei, Southern Sudan. “My visible …
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God’s Perfect Plan
One night when I walked in the door to my parents' house, something on the dining room table caught my attention. There, encased in a vintage gold wood frame, was a black and white photo of my mom's parents on their wedding day in 1945.
Fascinated, I picked it up and ran my fingers over the carved frame. I figured my mom had framed it with the intention of putting it up somewhere in the house.
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What has God ‘Set’ in You?
On one of my lunch hours, I went out and bought a new cell phone. I was ecstatic about the great offer a co-worker had clued me into—more minutes for literally the same amount of money I had been paying for my previous service, and no roaming charges! What a deal! But I had no …
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Father Knows Best
Not to sound cliché, but when I was 28 I finally had come to realize that fathers really do know best. Now before you start thinking 1950s TV show here, let me explain. Years ago when I decided to move out of my parents’ home into an apartment, I was overwhelmed with the choices out …
