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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAshley can relate personally to the women she serves, having gone through a crisis pregnancy herself. She was homeless for a time and without a place like St. Gianna to turn to. Still, she wasn\u2019t alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really just had to kind of pull myself up by the bootstraps, but I had a lot of women that came to me in my life that were very supportive, and that really helped me out a lot with just leadership and advice,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cI just felt really, really called to do this work because I had been helped in that way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cash said she also had a deep understanding of the circumstances the women she serves are facing, but her call to action came from a series of coincidences one Sunday on the way to and during Mass. At the time, she lived south of Nashville and was on her way to the Fathers of Mercy gathering in Auburn, Kentucky. St. Gianna came up in a sermon she was listening to during the drive, again in the Mass itself, and then a third time when a family member suggested she would be a good fit for the organization. At the time, Cash had just begun a career in management, and she didn\u2019t understand why she would have gotten that comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy would she say that?\u201d Cash said. \u201cShe knows that I have this job that I\u2019m doing really well in \u2014 and in that moment that she said that, I knew that I was being called to do it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cash is now the live-in evening house manager, assisting the women in the home with dinner prep, chores, and preparing for the next day. It hasn\u2019t been easy changing careers, and it\u2019s a job that has required her to grow in her faith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was already a person of faith, but I have fought a lot of spiritual warfare since coming here, and I\u2019ve had no choice but to become stronger,\u201d Cash said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She has found hope in the relationships formed between the women in the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSometimes they\u2019re each other\u2019s greatest support, and I think that that\u2019s been a beautiful thing to see,\u201d Cash said. \u201cThat\u2019s definitely something that gives me hope and was a pleasant surprise because you never know, with living with women, how that\u2019s going to go.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Both women have hope for the organization\u2019s future. Ashley hopes that one day, the organization will grow and have the capacity for more women and that St. Gianna may one day be able to take in mothers with an extra child. For Bowling Green as a whole, she hopes more women in the community find the mentorship they need, especially those in crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope that I can speak with each of these women [and] help them feel like they deserve more and [that] they deserve a great life, and so does their child,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cThey can live a life that they love and that\u2019s really healthy for them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Through those everyday interactions, Ashley and Cash are helping mothers in crisis do just that. Their compassion and drive to serve are inspirations that stretch beyond St. Gianna to Bowling Green. It\u2019s a lesson that anyone can learn from. GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SOMETIMES, IT\u2019S the little, day-to-day kindnesses that change a person\u2019s life, and two women at the St. Gianna Crisis Pregnancy Home embody that principle well. Amanda Ashley and Katie Cash serve as house managers, and they spend each day helping the mothers at St. Gianna prepare for their future.\u00a0 Ashley worked as a community health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/bowling-green\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/7E7A3175-1024x683.jpg\")
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