Laurie Stroud
King’s Home Offers New Help for Foster Youth
Mission Makers The girls enrolled in King’s Home Youth: Transitional Living Program have a new house to call home. The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides an alternative living arrangement for foster youth (ages 16-19) in the custody of Alabama DHR with opportunities to practice independent living skills in a variety of congregate settings with decreasing …
OLS School Opens!
Education Extra Excitement filled the halls at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School (OLS) as students kicked off the 2020-2021 school year eager to learn and prepared for the new health protocols the school established based on the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the American Association of Pediatrics, and state and local recommendations. “This year, …
Vintage Market Days
Special Feature Are you ready to shop? Visit The Hoover Finley Center for Vintage Market Days of Birmingham’s “Road Trip” on September 24-26 from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m each day. This 3-day event will feature vendors from over 20 states. Vintage Market Days® is an upscale, vintage-inspired, market featuring original art, antiques, clothing, jewelry, handmade …
Local Churches Partner to Feed the Hungry
Church Leaders The team behind the non-profit food van, Food For Our Journey (FFOJ), was helped this weekend by two parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham. Teamwork between some parishioners of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church (OLS) in Homewood and Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Hoover made sure that 200 people who …
Sara Evans, God Strong
Cover Story Multi-platinum recording artist, author, wife and mother- these are just a few of the roles of Birmingham’s own Sara Evans, who took time out while on tour with her studio project Stronger to share with Christian Family how her faith in Christ keeps her strong. Evans took time out to share with Christian Family how her faith in …
Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Trap of Comparison & the Beauty of Grace
Parenting Points We have all heard of the proverbial Jones family – the family that every other family aspires to be. The Joneses frequently fill social media with pictures of their perfect family, HGTV award-winning house, and vacation pictures straight off the Travel Channel. The Jones kids only fight over who gets to say the …
Join Saint George in Supporting Backpack Buddies
Church Leaders In Shelby County alone, there are over 10,000 public school children on the free meal program at their school but what happens over the weekends? During long holiday breaks and weekends, The Backpack Buddies Program helps meet the need by providing public school students with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food that they can take …
Parking Lots- A New Place for Ministry
Special Feature Parking lot, car park, parking area. These are references to an area where cars or other vehicles may be temporarily left to go inside a nearby building to work, shop, attend a meeting, or conduct other business. Well, that’s what the typical definition used to be anyway. That is until the Coronavirus invaded …
God is Bigger!
Mission Makers In 2011, Trussville native Rachel Shaneyfelt was diagnosed with mesothelioma and was given only nine months to live. Shaneyfelt was in nurse practitioner school when she was given this devasting news but decided to continue to pursue her degree. While working as a nurse practitioner, she was scheduled for a lung biopsy. Because …
