by Ashleigh | Jul 17, 2018 | Team Members
July 2016 was the end of my first year at a Christian summer camp called Barefoot Republic. On the last night our director had us sum our summer up in one word. My word was changed. Proceeding our choosing, she then had us look up in the index in the Bible App the...
by Ashleigh | Jul 10, 2018 | Community, Team Members
Josh and I grew up in the church, going to church camp, volunteering our time, and doing what was easy. We wanted to do something more, something challenging! We wanted to stretch our faith and grow with each other and in Christ but we didn’t know what that...
by Ashleigh | Jun 18, 2018 | Team Members
Campus ministry was not on my list of what to look for in a potential college. For me, God existed at summer camp. God sounded like guitars singing through cheap speakers, smelled like midnight campfires, and faded away as I drove home on Saturday. It wasn’t...
by Ashleigh | May 22, 2018 | Alumni, Community, Team Members
When I returned back from Spring Break, Sacred Heart’s break had only just begun. This meant that last week was my first week back at work and it had been two weeks since I had been there. Factoring in snow days and missing art on Tuesday, that came to about 23 days...
by Ashleigh | Apr 10, 2018 | Discipleship, Featured, Team Members
“You ask too many questions, you start too many fights, you dream of resurrection but you’re too scared to die.” This is a lyric from a song called “Birds” by The Collection, one of my favorite bands. From the first time I heard this line...
by Ashleigh | Mar 13, 2018 | Team Members
My Mission Year service site is the Star of Hope Mission. It’s a nonprofit organization that has been providing Christ-centered services to the homeless population of Houston, TX since 1907 (that’s 110 years!). I was assigned to the new Cornerstone...
