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Our Charis
Family
“Passionaries”
Todd cam
home a couple weeks ago and said that he had heard a new word that
described me. “Passionary.” He said that a passionary is a
passionate visionary who takes that passion and vision and does
something to positively impact the world. How cool! As I’ve been
thinking about passionaries over the last couple of weeks, many of
our Charis members have come to mind. So, this month in the section
where we introduce a Charis family member, I thought I’d briefly
introduce just some of the many passionaries in the Charis family.
Karen McClung, for instance, has taken her passion for
helping women and girls in a crisis pregnancy choose life for their
babies and her passion for helping women and girls experience
healing from a past abortion, and is impacting the lives of hundreds
through her work as the director the crisis pregnancy center in
Hampton, VA. She is a passionary.
Elizabeth Carmichael is a passionary. She has left the
comfort of home here in the United States and has made her home in
an impoverished, dangerous, war-torn, third world country because
she has a passion for helping those people and for reaching the most
unreached with the Gospel.
David and Deborah Hamilton are also positively impacting the
world around them because of their vision and passion for the
beautiful people of Madagascar. As passionaries, they are helping
birthing families, spreading the Gospel, and planting vibrant
churches.
Sam Scaggs is a passioinary with a capital “P”! For decades,
he has followed his heart to fulfill vision after vision God has
given him to impact the world. He has taken his family all over the
world on his passionate adventures. There are healthy, growing
Christians, leaders, and churches all over the globe as a result.
Sam has been one of Charis’s biggest cheerleaders.
Aimee Roberts and Christi Jones are joining forces and
putting feet to their vision and passion to help the women in their
church have healthy, positive birth experiences.
Another
passionary in the Charis family is Hannah Mann, a CNM
dedicated to caring for expectant families in a mountainous, rural,
underserved area. Hannah has chosen to forego the convenience and
income associated with a hospital-based practice, and, instead, has
passionately embraced her calling as home birth midwife to a widely
diversified population in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Elizabeth Lugmayer has let no obstacle (whether it be her
youth, finances, transportation, etc.) get in the way of fulfilling
God’s calling on her life and to walk out her passion and vision to
become a midwife. We have only just begun to see the impact this
passionary will have on the world.
Doran Richards, a homeschooling mom with a huge heart and
huge vision, has passionately embarked on a mission to help women
embrace the different God-designed seasons of their lives in a way
that brings them closer to their Creator. After a relatively short
period of time, the message which was launched in Virginia has
reached as far away as the Ukraine… and knowing Doran, it won’t stop
there.
There are other passionaries in Charis whose vision is still in the
incubator and will undoubtedly take flight at just the right time.
Dawn Reil is one of those. Her vision for Shepherdsfold
Ministries where people can live, be discipled, and learn valuable
life skills so they can become contributing members of society is
sure to be birthed in God’s perfect timing.
Jessica Fruck, a passionary whose vision to serve expectant
families was conceived back when she was a teenager, has a passion
to begin a ministry within her church to care for women and girls in
crisis pregnancies.
Michelle Kaufman also has a passion for those in a crisis
pregnancy and has the vision to build a home for unwed mothers that
includes a birth center on the premises.
Someone who probably least expects me to mention him in this
newsletter would be Evan Parker. Full of energy, enthusiasm,
and passion, he gives every endeavor 100% and, as a result,
positively impacts all those around him. He has been an inspiration
to me personally, and also to other Charis members. (Ask him about
the Kegel song he wrote for the birth class he attended when they
were expecting their first baby!) He and his wife Katie (and their 2
beautiful children) have only just begun their passionary
adventures.
And the list could go on and on. It is so exciting to see these
passionate visionaries fulfill God’s purpose for their lives!
With Love,
Kristin Schuchmann
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Charis Cuisine
Marinara Sea
Spaghetti
with Avocado
1-2
plate servings
Sea spaghetti is a
delicious and nutritious seaweed. It looks like spaghetti, and when
soaked has the texture of pasta “al dente” style. To eat it like
spaghetti, make a nice marinara sauce, and layer it on a bed of
lettuce. You don’t have to add the avocado, or the pine nuts, or the
olives. They are just for garnish, but they taste delightful with
the dish. You can also grind the pine nuts to use as “parmesan
cheese” if you’d like. Enjoy!
The sea spaghetti can be hard to find. It is also called "Arame" and
is a seaweed that can be found in Health Food stores.
Ingredients
2 handfuls sea spaghetti (arame)
soak for 30 minutes, rinse very well
½ cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked, and rinsed
3 dates, pitted, and soaked
4 roma tomatoes, chopped in chunks
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 avocado, skinned, pitted, sliced thin
3 leaves, of red lettuce, rinsed, and chopped in chunks
1 handful pine nuts
5 black olives (in cold pressed oil)
½ cup white mushrooms, rinsed and sliced thin
Preparation
While soaking the spaghetti, prepare the marinara sauce by
processing all the ingredients (except the avocado, lettuce, pine
nuts, and olives) until well blended. Slice up your avocado, and
prep the lettuce. When ready to serve, plate the dish as follows:
Lay lettuce nicely on the plate. Add the sea spaghetti. Pour as much
of the marinara sauce as desired. Layer mushrooms on top. Then add
slices of the avocado on top and around the plate. Sprinkle pine
nuts, and set the olives around the plate. You’re ready to eat! Yum,
yum!
This lovely dish
consists of all raw ingredients. Why raw foods? A raw,
living-foods diet focuses on uncooked, unheated, unprocessed and
organic foods. Raw and living foods contain valuable living enzymes
that assist in digestion and assimilation of food and nutrients.
They can be very tasty, too.
To our good health and
tasty enjoyment!
Susan Oshel
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Kids Korner
"Do
you know what 'lucky' means?"
Benjamin Thompson, 2005
When Benjamin, my
younger son, was three years old he came to me and asked, "Do you
know what 'lucky' means?" Wondering what his little mind was
thinking since "lucky" is not vocabulary that we use in our
home, I responded, "What does 'lucky' mean?" With a big
smile, he exclaimed, "It means you have a Mommy!"
Rachel Thompson,
Benjamin's Mommy
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