Blessing box: ‘Her story doesn’t end here’
“Alicia was my fourth child, my littlest one. She was like a little porcelain doll. We pretty much centered ourselves around her. She was my kids’ pride and joy. She wanted anything, she got it. She...
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Young couple tackle new business
Jamari: “We didn’t experience the 2020 that most everyone else did. It was a very exciting year for us. COVID was going strong, but that didn’t stop us from getting married and opening up this business....
Chronic health struggles can’t stop her
“In 2009, I was raising my kids. I was doing weddings. I was teaching group fitness. I was doing all this stuff, then my voice kept going out. “I was a fitness instructor for 17 years....
Food ministry ‘delivering hope’
“I made a mistake. I used the wrong address for a food fair location. I caught it, but I knew some of the flyers had already gone out. “I was worried that some people might go...
Baytown Pay It Forward Diner feeds the hungry
“We’ve been homeless, and we’ve gone without. There were so many times that our food budget for every two weeks was $50. So we know what it’s like. We’ve always helped people through outreach, but we...
It feels ‘great’ to be off the streets
When I met Joshua Johnson six years ago, it was outside a Baytown motel. He was staying there temporarily. He said at the time, “I was living at an RV park. Me and my friend were...
Cancer survivor tolerates life with feeding tube
“I had a lump pop up on my throat. Wasn’t sure what it was. Didn’t think it was cancer. Being a Christian, I really wasn’t that worried. My wife told me, ‘Let’s go to MD Anderson.’...
Their garden is their refuge
“My mom gardened a lot when I was younger. And way, way back, my grandfathers on both sides were potato farmers from Maine. So I wonder if there’s not something in my genes that just makes...
‘I’m just so determined to make this a success’
“Living with my grandmother back in Louisiana, I would always be in the kitchen while she was cooking. So I guess it just came natural to me. “I remember being 7 years old, standing on a...
Keto at center of her weight loss journey
“My whole life, I’ve been fat. I kind of think about doing surgery or losing weight, but it just never really takes off. I get frustrated, and it doesn’t happen. It got to the point where...
