Thank you for standing in the gap
Celebrating the heart of our home
Tasha’s triumph: from challenge to change
Triumphs from the children’s homes
I’ve been a house mom in the Beautiful Dream Society human trafficking shelter for a little over a year. So many memories flow from this experience: memories of joy, pain, and sometimes an overwhelming feeling of not knowing why quiet little me is working there. Each time though, God reminds me that one of the…
“Thirty-One has a mission to celebrate, encourage and reward women, and this is one way I can do that for women who desperately need it.” Ashlie Cravens has supported BDS from the very beginning. She listened as Jennifer Crow, founder of BDS and pastor of Victory Church in Oklahoma City, shared the dream she’d had…
Continued from The Love House|Education Program – Part II . . . Another success story involves an 8 year old boy. He was malnourished for the first few years of his life and was finally placed into our care once he was nursed back to health and a little older. Although he is 8 years…
Continued from The Love House|Education Programl – Part I . . . One girl is 11 years old and when I first began teaching her English almost 4 weeks ago, she was definitely the hardest to communicate with. She seemed shy and unsure of almost everything I said to her in English. Here’s the thing: all…
My name is Jayne Cawthon and I am an intern in Lesotho, Africa for the Beautiful Dream Society. I wake up most days in awe of how amazing this opportunity is. I write down every event and detail my mind could possibly remember at the end of the day because taking it all in, down…
I’ve heard a lot of reasons why people don’t believe in God. Some like to use the conclusion that God doesn’t exist because there is too much suffering in the world. Too many children starving, too many natural disasters, too many wars and not enough peace. And I would agree that there is too much…
Thoughts I wrote at the airport in Johannesburg without wifi to post it. Enjoy. At the beginning of my trip, Jesus opened my eyes in a new way to the verse about new wineskins for new wine. Africa was new wine for this old skin, and I would need a new one to understand all…