Believing That You Can
there for me and my girls throughout my adult life
struggles. They have helped me in countless ways whether
it was gas to travel to and from school or doctors’
appointments, car rental to get to the hospital with my child
with health issues, or fees for school. They have even
helped me with food or money for bills at times. They
assisted in getting Christmas dresses for the girls as well as
many more things. Just recently the church gave me a three
bedroom and two bath house. All I have to do is move in.
Yes, a house, you heard me right. I couldn’t ask for a better
church family than Parkview.
Life has its challenges. I know God is with me along
my life’s journeys and I know He uses my church family to
pick me up or prod me along. They don’t give up on me and
they actively work to promote my family’s well being. I
know I am blessed to have God and my church family in
our lives and very thankful for both.
Lisa Kinney loves being a mom and works to provide her girls with
wonderful opportunities for developing a strong sense of community. She
is a student in the Columbia Career and Adult Education and the
Columbia Family Literacy Academy.
A Portrait of My Grandma
There are many people in the world that I admire:
interesting people, successful actors, writers, presidents, and
my parents. But there is a simple woman who I think is the
best person in the world, she is my Grandma. She is one of
those humans who never die because she still lives in every
person who had the fortune of meeting her. Maria was her
name. She was born in a little town in my country of Peru,
in 1904. She had a happy childhood playing in the
mountains, riding her favorite horse, and harvesting
vegetables and fruits. Her parents had a big farm with many
animals.
She only had an elementary school education because at
that time women didn’t have the opportunity to study in
high school and go to the University. When she was 18
years old she got married and had six children. Soon she