Joshua Brown: Making legacies possible

Joshua Brown: Making legacies possible

LIFE THREW a wrench into Joshua Brown’s plans — ideas of numbers, data, and creation all woven into the career of an electrical engineer fell apart. Instead, the Florida native turned into what he swore never to become. He then forever transformed the livesof teachers...
Laura Dileonardi: Bring your mess

Laura Dileonardi: Bring your mess

LAURA DILEONARDI’S life felt like a cluttered room of chaos with no doors. In 2012, she became pregnant for the first time. With the new reality came anxiety, exhaustion, and loneliness. She struggled to make connections in her community. Mother support networks...
Lacie and Ricky Aldret: A mechanic’s ministry of love

Lacie and Ricky Aldret: A mechanic’s ministry of love

Life forced Lacie to become an independent woman. The disappearance of a mother left Lacie to help her stepdad care for three sisters at a young age. With a biological father out of the picture following a tragic divorce during her infant years, her stepfather became...
Jan Parker: The Most Honorable Thing in the World

Jan Parker: The Most Honorable Thing in the World

JOE’S (REAL name withheld for privacy) brain did not work. The man was unconscious. He had been that way for a while now in the trauma unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after suffering a serious injury, but this made no difference to Jan Parker. She read...