Last month we dug into the Lifeline archives for a look at the history of Pure Freedom, our abstinence-based relationship education program. Abstinence Educators like Leslie Kuehner and Sarah Melton clued us in on how they saw God transform the lives of middle and high school students in Northeast Missouri, as well as how He …read more
20 Years of Lifeline: The History of Pure Freedom, Pt. 1
It’s so easy for us to get caught up in the fine details of a daily work routine. As a Pure Freedom educator, my tasks often look like this: make copies, staple packets, practice lessons, drive an hour away, and talk to middle and high school students about healthy relationships, the human body, and why …read more
Stories In-Progress
We all have a story. It’s easy enough to see our own tale being written. We’ve experienced the backstory, met a lot of the major characters, and feel the incompleteness of it all. We know there is more to come, or at least we expect there to be, and we have hopes for how our …read more
20 Years of Lifeline: Warriors in Scrubs
What happens when you cross a medical professional, a mom, a counselor, and a superhero? You get a Lifeline Nurse. These ladies serve on the frontlines everyday, walking alongside our clients as they make life-changing decisions. They run the pregnancy tests and ultrasounds that deliver the news of life, they check in every week with …read more
The Temple
The human body blows my mind: intricate, strong, and fragile all at once. It also seems that the human body is one of the things that scares humans the most. We associate a variety of emotions with our bodies: joy, pride, vanity, anxiety, thankfulness, hopelessness, wonder, disgust. Our pants sizes change whether we want them …read more