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Pursuing Healthy Living in 2018: Interview with Hayley Bobay

Pursuing Healthy Living in 2018: Interview with Hayley Bobay

I am so very excited to introduce you to my beautiful friend, Hayley Bobay, wife to Cody and mom to Ty and Parker. Hayley has been involved in the fitness world for many years and in several different ways; creating in her a passion to encourage women toward a healthy lifestyle – not for aesthetic reasons, but to serve God fully out of a healthy mind, heart and body.    

The Creative Declutterer: An Interview With Sara Crawford

The Creative Declutterer: An Interview With Sara Crawford

Meet the multi-faceted Sara Crawford! She is hugely creative, warm and personable, yet has a perfectionist tendency and some serious organizational chops. Because of her unique gift mix, we wanted to get her insight on corralling our clutter in 2018.

10 Packing Hacks for a Mission Trip

10 Packing Hacks for a Mission Trip

Sitting in a Nicaraguan bathroom with no toilet paper. Staring at a dead digital camera on the breathtaking mountains of Slovenia. Standing in your hotel room with no luggage...

These are all semi-worst case scenarios for the unprepared “mission tripper.” I’ve been on eight short-term mission trips, as well as lived on the mission field for five years with my family. In all those years, I’ve accumulated a system for an effective packing list and some tricks to it all… a knack I developed from the many inconvenient instances I mentioned above! Your suitcase may blow-up like Zaboomafoo’s closet when you open it, but it'll be worth it when you have everything you need.

3 Ways to Use Your Shopping Addiction for Good

3 Ways to Use Your Shopping Addiction for Good

The Lord calls us to be good stewards of our money. In Luke 16, Jesus tells a parable about a master and his money manager. After the manager makes a dishonest deal, the master asks him, “If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?” The same applies to our lives today. How can the Lord trust us with true riches of this life and the next if we aren’t managing our money in a way that pleases Him?