By Kristen Welch
We are THAT Family
Friends, this is my last podcast episode for the “season.” I’m taking a break this summer and I hope you’ll tune in for more this episodes this fall. Here’s an expert: Today, you might not be okay. You might be...
This unexpected season has taught me a lot about suffering. And I’m not referring to my first world disappointments brought on by a global pandemic. I’m referring to the stories of suffering I’ve heard firsthand from people I love in...
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I don’t know about you, but my normal has certainly changed in the last month. I bet yours has too. It’s made me reflect on this unexpected season and just how many mountains are in our way… When Terrell and...
I was sitting in my hammock chair this week, in the middle of the day, desperate for some fresh air. I hit play on an audio message from Maureen, my precious friend, and the Director of our maternity homes in...
I recorded this episode before the world was hit by an unprecedented pandemic, but I think with all our kids home for the foreseeable future, the timing is perfect. Click below to listen to my latest podcast episode. Excerpt: “Mom, you’ve...
This is what I’ve learned. God moves some mountains miraculously. We stare down the impossible, and it stares right back at us. But then God casts it into the sea and makes a way where there wasn’t. And some mountains...
Abraham was old. Elijah was suicidal. Joseph was abused. Job went bankrupt. Moses had a speech problem. Gideon was afraid. Samson was a womanizer. Rahab was a prostitute. The Samaritan woman was divorced (five times). Noah was a drunk. Jeremiah...
Click to hear my newest podcast episode below or read the notes: I’ll never forget the first time I stood on the edge of a mountain. I was a newlywed, and Terrell, my young husband, and I were hiking. Even...
I’m an excellent worrier and a mediocre hiker. Hey, we all have our gifts. My word for 2020 is celebrate. I chose this word -not because I’ve made it over the mountain, but because I don’t stop and celebrate enough...
(click below to listen to this post as a podcast) Friday is a favorite day of the week for most people because it signifies the end of work or school and the beginning of the weekend which generally means rest,...
“Mom…mom, hey mom!” My son had said my name 7 times in the last two minutes. I held up a finger, signifying he would wait until I paused in an important conversation with my husband. I continued talking and then–...
We walked down a red dirt road, dodging a thin, hungry-looking dog and a wayward goat eating from a pile of rotten food. We stepped over trash in our path as we passed row after row of small shacks. A...
In this new podcast episode… Why do you think God has allowed you to be born in North America . . . and to be blessed with such material and spiritual abundance? In light of the superabundance you enjoy, what...
I have a new podcast that I’d really love for you to listen to this week. It’s a very important invitation to join me in moving mountains this holiday season. Show Notes: What is it? Still have questions? FAQ Host...
Ten years ago I knew nothing about how the world works. I was entitled and believed I deserved the American Dream. I lived in a comfortable bubble. I thought the bubble protected me and my family, but it only revealed...
Marriage can be hard. Marriage with children can be really hard. Both can also be really good. Today, podcast episode #14 focuses on parenting and raps up a three part marriage series with my husband, Terrell. We loved recording it...
Today, I’m sharing the second part of sitting down with my husband, Terrell, to chat about ministry and working together every day at a non-profit. Together, we have faced huge mountains and some of them God has allowed us to...
This year, I’m celebrating 25 years of marriage. And our kids remind us….that’s a very long time, which must make us very old. Watch it, young Jedi. We’ve had our good days and bad, our amazing seasons and the ones...
Podcast Transcript (scroll down to LISTEN): If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, you might have picked up on a theme of inadequacy or an overwhelmed tone. You would be right. I wrote these words in 2014: I used to...
[Scroll down to Listen to Podcast Episode #10] 10 years ago this month, I filled out non-profit paperwork to start Mercy House Global. I remember that day so well. I had no idea what I was doing and thankfully, we found...
A few weeks ago, I got a text from a friend and she said, “I had a dream about Mercy House. I want to share it with you some day.” The next morning, another text from the same friend, “Kristen,...
God rarely does things the way we think he should. While we’re waiting to do something important, God is doing something important in us. He is refining us. He is making us uncomfortable. Dependent. He is revealing His strength in...
I loved sitting down with my 19-year-old daughter, who just finished her first year of college, and we chatted a few days before she traveled to Thailand for her summer internship. She loves Asia and is hanging in there
Except from today’s podcast: Yesterday, I saw a mom struggling with a toddler in one arm and a baby on her hip in Target and it jogged a memory of me doing the same nearly two decades ago. Or was...
Elisabeth Elliot says this, “What we call “struggling” is often delayed obedience.” What a power-packed, thoughtful truth bomb, right? Let me say it again: “What we call “struggling” is often delayed obedience.” Most of my trouble in the mountains, has...
Notes: Tune in for an honest conversation between my 17 year old son and I on today’s newest podcast episode. We chat about moving mountains, friends + faith, how we are approaching dating, changing the world, being raised with a...
When I pulled a microphone out of of my suitcase a few weeks ago while I was in Kenya, my staff just thought I was joking about recording a podcast. I wasn’t
Show Notes: Being a mom is the best thing I’ve ever done and some days, motherhood is a whole lot harder than running a global non-profit. For sure. Motherhood is a lifetime of a billion little things we do for...
This is a space for those who want to climb mountains and for those who don’t. It’s a place for the dreamers who long to scale impossibilities and it’s for the discouraged who dread the disasters in their way. Life...
