by cldi | Jul 31, 2014 | Community Development & Housing, Stories, Women and Children
*Hope Education Network, otherwise referred to as HEN, is a work focused on serving teens and young women in crisis as part of CLDI’s effort to seek the shalom of our community. It has been awhile since I have last posted on my blog. Life has served up...
by cldi | Jul 1, 2014 | Community Development & Housing, Stories, Women and Children
At the turn of the New Year, we set out to spend several months to reflect upon the challenges we face today as it relates to womanhood, fatherhood, family, and motherhood (special thanks to our friends who contributed!). Though our world is under great...
by cldi | Jun 1, 2014 | Stories, Women and Children
My husband and I had our first child earlier than we had anticipated. I realize now that I was completely unprepared for this change in my life. Physically, we had everything for the new baby: beautiful nursery, an abundance of clothes, all the right Dr. Seuss books,...
by cldi | May 1, 2014 | Stories, Women and Children
Family is one of the greatest gifts we may ever receive in this life. The dictionary defines it as: ‘a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.’Family is a complex thing and yet it is...
by cldi | Apr 3, 2014 | Stories
“He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse” (Malachi 4:6).Here we see a clear indication of the blessing of God upon His nation:...