[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 some business online and paid $500 for them to help us. We knew we might […]

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, I had another dream last night. Call me when you have a chance.” I read […]

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 our weakness. It’s a truth that’s hard to grasp in the middle of the […]

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 it really yesterday? That baby will be in a senior in high school in a […]

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 to do with me not wanting too…. Not wanting to obey, not wanting to put […]

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 global perspective and temptation. He’s deeply wise and so mature for his age. I hope […]

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 our kids, most of which they don’t even know about or appreciate it. But […]

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 will lead us to the edge of both kinds of mountains – and sometimes your […]