Growing up, February 14th wasn’t a holiday I looked forward to or planned for, so when the morning came and my mom made waffles with ice cream, I got to go to school and share candy with my classmates, and then come home to a heart shaped chocolate cake… it was a pretty great day….
Category: Faith
“I Saw That You Are A Christian…”
When I got to the States after Peru, I was looking for my fifth therapist in less than a year. At the time, I was starting to believe there was something super wrong with me even though all logical evidence pointed to different situational factors (ex: the contract with IJM ending meaning the therapy with…
Being Great
The car got towed today. I’m not trying to make some profound statement (or copy the intro from the last post), it was just the fact of the morning and after walking to the wrong lot and finding out I had the wrong documents to retrieve it, I’m now at a coffee shop charging my…
The Adventure is Beginning!
School might be over but the IJM prep has just begun. Read about the prayer gathering, fundraising updates, but most importantly ORIENTATION AT IJM HEADQUARTERS! IJM Prayer Gathering – Twin Cities One of the recent IJM adventures was attending the local prayer gathering with IJM volunteers, staff members, and advocates from around the Twin Cities….
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Ali’s Updates
Here’s a confession: I’ve spent countless hours on this post only to start over and over again. I have so much to say, but I’ve learned that most of you will only read 300-750 words… and I’ve already used about 40. My solution: front load the important stuff, followed by a spilling of Ali(ssa) Pollard’s…
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Each of You (Philippians 2)
I’ve always been interested in how people use their passions for greater causes (hence my obsession with using fashion to raise money and awareness for anti-human trafficking work), but what I’ve more recently recognized is that my dad was one of the first people in my life to do this. He’s always strived to use…