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 Ellen | Jul 8, 2019 | Small Acts of Kindness
I was shelving some children’s videos at the library when she spotted me. I looked down and saw a little girl, maybe 5 or 6 years old, looking up at me. “Hi. How are you?” I said. “Do you need something?” She asked if we had a certain book. “Well, let’s see. Is it in...
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 Ellen | Jun 24, 2019 | Guest Bloggers, Small Acts of Kindness
By Ellen Andersen I love to garden. I REALLY love to garden—flowers, mostly. I have several friends who do too. We enjoy seeing each other’s creations for the year and often share plants with each other. We talk about what worked and what didn’t, and the surprises we...
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 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...
