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Finding Your Purpose In Life
Meet Laydi. She is a 7 years old princess who stole my heart while in La Cherreca. La Chureca is a literal landfill that hundreds of...
Amanda Sowards
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National Dress Day Recap
This week we celebrated #NationalDressDay. As a woman, I love embracing my femininity. As a woman, I also know what it feels like to have...
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World NGO Day
Today is World NGO Day! I have the privilege of being the VP for World Missions Outreach, an international NGO non-profit ministry that...
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How God Shows Us Chivalry Isn’t Dead
My entire life I focused on wanting to “be someone”. Today, I spent time reading through our World Missions Outreach student profile...
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Why Travel to Puerto Rico For More Than Just a Vacation
September 20, 2017, will forever be known as the date that Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and devastated the island, while plunging all...
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2018 - A Dark Year
Life is crazy. People are crazy. We are all a little crazy... However, I never imagined that my life would ever have the level of crazy...
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Happy #WorldKindnessDay
The affects of kindness are not always seen immediately; sometimes never. True kindness is not given with expectations or contingencies...
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i(am) Collection
We live in a world that labels each of us without our consent or permission. Since when did society get to have that much control over...
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Your Identity Is NOT For Sale
Today is not a holiday or any other day that would seem different from the rest. However, a year ago today my world stopped. I remember...
Amanda Sowards
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Why I Stopped Praying
Why I stopped Praying Life is funny & ironic. It has seasons. Some are full of happiness or success & some are full of heartbreak or...
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Cristina's Story
Do you remember Cristina? I first met this sweet little girl at a World Missions Outreach Feeding program she was wrapped around her...
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True Life: Pageant Stage to Dirt Floors
I was asked, "How do you find the balance between the drastic diversity of your life. From the stage to dirt floors, how does it add up?"...
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What being a Proverbs 31 Woman really means
Many women become so consumed with whats popular or trendy, that they don't even know who they are anymore. It's not all our fault. The...
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What is Love?
• Love • What is Love? • Kneeling down to wash someone else's feet is one of the most humbling expressions of love. Just like washing...
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Dressed with Love - You are Worth the Very Best
I often get comments like, 'wow, you sure do dress up on mission trips'. Now, Go ahead, I'm sure you have thought the same thing! Here is...
Amanda Sowards
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The Face of Humanity in a World full of Adversity
As I walked into a one room structure, accompanied by no door, covered by a tin roof and accented with dirt floors; the only word I could...
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My Purpose in Life - Dirt Floors & Tin Shacks
We are all given a platform, but it is up to us to decide how we use it. Since my 1st trip to Nicaragua when I was 12, I knew that...
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My Biggest Fear is a White Picket Fence Mentality
Each year I have dreaded getting older. I thought it was just a sign of life being closer to its end. Although, technically accurate, I...
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Climbed Crowders Mountain
At 1,705 feet Kings Pinnacle is the highest peak in Crowders Mountain State Park. I hiked to the top yesterday to see this beautiful...
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Perspective from Nicaragua
Stop. Right now. Look around you. Everything that surrounds our westernized culture revolves around electronics, technology, gadgets,...
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Serving in Nicargua
Today I stood on a dirt floor with no roof, held a metal ladle spoon to serve rice out of a bowl over an open flame beside a bar wire...
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A Day in Nicaragua
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your...
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Meet Elizabeth
This is Elizabeth. She is in the 2nd grade at our school in #Nicaragua World Missions Outreach. I sponsor Elizabeth so she can receive an...
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