When we moved into our neighborhood eight years ago, we had no idea we were moving next door to lovebirds. After almost 50 years of marriage, Stanley and Barbara’s passion for each other was undeniably sweet. They were not only the cutest couple, but the most inseparable. Every time we saw Stanley, there was…
My stomach felt unsettled and my mind was fast forwarding through every possible escape route I could imagine. The hand of regret wrapped around my throat, squeezed every anticipated breath from my chest and robbed me of hope for redemption. It was a horrible, speeding, out-of-control roller coaster that I recently boarded and there was…
When Mike and I first came to Connecticut, we attended Gateway Christian Fellowship in West Haven, experiencing passionate worship and compelling preaching. With a missions background, we were eager to get involved in outreach. We discovered our call serving food at the men’s shelter in New Haven twice a month. It felt fulfilling to prepare…
In elementary school I won the spelling bee for my school district. I won on the word achieve. I will never forget that day. A local newspaper snapped a photo of me holding my trophy, smiling from ear to ear, standing next to my parents and Mr. Fairman, my favorite teacher in the world. The…
We were restless. Mike owned a successful landscape company, our kids brought us great joy and drove us crazy; we enjoyed being active in our church and doing community outreaches, but we felt as if there was something more for us. We talked about going to a YWAM Crossroads Mission School in Hawaii. This…
We weren’t exactly thrilled when we moved to New Haven. We had a wonderful white picket fence life near the beach in Blue Point, Long Island. We lived in the home of our dreams. Most of all, we were comfortable. New Haven, through our eyes at the time, was quite different. It was city life that…
I can’t stand making u-turns! When I’m going the wrong way, I need to do a 180 to turn around. It seems to occur more often when I don’t use my GPS. I’m driving somewhere and I figure out I missed a turn and I need to go back, or perhaps I was distracted for…
