Hello Everyone! I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about me.
I am a 25 yr. old female from Ohio. I am the mother of three beautiful children two girls ages 2 & 7, and a son age 5. I have been happily married for six years to my childhood sweetheart, Michael.
I have struggled through a heart-wrenching battle for the last 12 years searching for my mother, Joyce Darlene Patterson, who went missing from Phoenix Arizona. Through my search for my mother, I found and joined a wonderful online support network, Peace4TheMissing, where the members are strong in faith, encouraging and motivating. It started out with a few members with missing loved ones and has grown to include 336 members of all walks. Some of the people do not even have a missing loved one; they just join to offer support, encouragement, prayer and motivation to others! It’s awesome! That’s how I was referred to this forum.
I am a the website administrator and member of The Power of Prayer online prayer fellowship, where we offer online group prayer every week, as well as monthly raffle drawings, charity donations and prayer in numbers! Everyone in faith knows that prayer in numbers works miracles! I would love if you would come and pray with me on The Power of Prayer, also.
God has really been working on me lately. My life has come together to include all kinds of opportunities for me to prove my loyalty to him and spreading his word. After posting a weekly prayer theme to Peace4TheMissing, declaring a desire to start a ministry of some sort, I was approached by Minister Jim Harnage of Silent Ministries Recovery Outreach with an opportunity to assist in doing work for his ministry. This ministry provides free services and assistance with legal fees in child custody and divorce for battered and abused individuals and children. They also provide international support to a church in India… aside from so many other things! They are amazing!
I have been in absolute awe at the works of God in my life, just in the past two months. I went from being unemployed, in a terrible economic situation and depressed… to fully revived with support networks like no other. I have been trying to get my freelance writing “career” off the ground for about a year now and have not been able to find my “niche”. Recently, I was approached by six individuals to write their stories of survival and achievement of Non-Profit organizations to publish in various magazines (and they offered pay).
I do not believe that this is all coincidence. I prayed to the Lord to show me the way to end my struggles for myself and my family. And he laid it all out in front of me and said, “I am delivering these opportunities on a platter, follow your heart and do with them what you must.” I am not going to fail him. I will declare my testimony of God’s work in my life, everywhere that I can!
