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LONGVIEW: Heartisans Marketplace offers more than just store goods
LONGVIEW, Texas - Julee Rachels hesitates to talk about herself, making it difficult to determine in what way she developed her acute sense of vision — just...
Faith Focus: Could I be an agent of redemption?
Editor's note: May is National Foster Care Month. Join us in prayer each day this month for children involved in foster care, the families who care for...
IN THE MEDIA: Celebrating National Foster Care Month
USA (MNN) — May is National Foster Care Month. Being a foster parent is a special calling. It’s a job that often requires the strength of Hercules,...
Small-Home concept helps seniors with alzheimer’s and dementia thrive and flourish
By Lauren Witt, Forté Group, Inc. The senior housing and care scene is changing dramatically as more and more seniors look for communities in which to retire....
Marked by love: Bringing Valeria home
Story and photography by Lauren Hollon Sturdy The Arroyos’ home is marked by love, literally. On the wall just outside their front door they’ve painted a big...
How two months can change a life
By John Hall PEÑITAS, Texas – Lorena Reyes was a bit reticent to speak English. Though she’s significantly better than she led others to believe, she remained...
MIDLAND: Resilient Midland mom overcomes the odds
MIDLAND, Texas - After nearly two decades, Midlander Heather Hembree, a single mother of three, still hears the voices of her sixth-grade teachers who said she would...
Faith Focus: A blessed gift
Editor’s note: May is National Foster Care Month. Join us in prayer each day this month for children involved in foster care, the families who care for...
LUBBOCK: National Foster Care Month
LUBBOCK, TX -- May is National Foster Care Month. Right now in Texas, more than 30,000 children are in the foster care system; 10,000 of them are...
The power of children
By Scott Collins ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – I watched children of all ages do some amazing things today. Encompassed in their inviting world of imagination, I watched...