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Imagine a life without a smile – The Miracle of Cleft Palate surgery
This blog is kind of a personal shout out to Operation Smile and the 20 years they have been repairing kids’ cleft palates all around the world. As the father of a child with cleft palate, it is deeply personal to see how a life without a smile can be fixed in just 45 minutes. […]
Do you see POTENTIAL or PROBLEMS?
This is a powerful story of Saint’s tight end, Jimmy Graham. There is no better example of how the Church is the PATCH. Thank you Becky Vinson for being outrageously courageous. I’m sure you could have never seen then what you see now. “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what […]
Where is your treasure?
It was another beautiful Sunday morning in early October. Kids were waking from their slumber and parents were taking deep breaths in anticipation of the 2 hour preparation to leave the house. It was Sunday morning in the Gillis household. I made my way down to my computer earlier than normal that day where I […]
Inspired (Christopher Coleman)
This is my good friend Christopher Coleman. His story is one that has transformed the way I view life. We’ve grown up around the same things, same church, many of the same friends. He spoke for me on several different occassions while I was the College/Singles Pastor at First Woodstock in Ga. Each time, we […]
Still Face Experiment
This video should break our hearts. Why? Some things simply need to be known. This is one of them. The Still face experiment. What does that mean? I urge you to take just a couple of minutes to watch this experiment. After you have watched it, please continue to read the final thoughts. It will […]
How one picture rocked my world
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” ~Mother Teresa This is the picture that changed my life. It’s a picture taken by Emily (Walters) Laney when she served at this particular orphanage in the […]
