by Jennifer Hallmark | Jul 15, 2019 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
By Lisa Worthey Smith After the fall of Saigon, many desperate people fled by the South China Sea in a mass exodus now known as the Vietnamese boat people. One twelve-year old girl among the hundreds of thousands of refugees, Thanh Dương, managed to survive the boat...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jul 1, 2019 | Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
A month ago, my husband and I joined a few others from our church, The Bridge, on a mission trip to Oneida, Kentucky. It was my first mission trip of any kind and I thoroughly enjoyed myself as I worked alongside others to upgrade the campus of a school which provides...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jun 17, 2019 | Author news, Small Acts of Kindness
By Nina Keenam In 1975, a darkroom technician at the newspaper where I was community editor noticed an old frame church while driving around in rural south Alabama. He was trying out a new camera. It was obvious from numerous broken window panes and a dangling door...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jun 14, 2019 | Author news, Favorite Friday Fiction
Wow! I can hardly believe it is June 14th. On Monday, the 17th, my debut novel, Jessie’s Hope, will be released, a lifelong dream realized at last. This dream began in the 8th grade when I won a school wide poetry contest. Seeds were planted then of a possible...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jun 10, 2019 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
Jessie’s Hope will arrive in one week! I can hardly believe it. All the hard work and waiting is almost over…. I can see why some people equate getting a book published to birthing a baby. Except it takes a whole lot longer (for me, anyway) to do than nine...
