My Heart Breaks For The Chapman Family

From The Tennesean:Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest child died Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a car driven by her teenage brother in the driveway of the family’s Williamson County home.Maria, one of the Christian singer’s six children, was taken by...

Compassion International El Salvador Trip — We’re Home!

We’re home! We all arrived safely home on Friday evening. I was most happy to brush my teeth with tap water instead of bottled water and to actually be able to sit on a toilet seat! Yes, most of the bathrooms had no toilet seats!I promised to post pics from our...

Compassion International El Salvador Day 4

This is a quick post to say all is well. We’ve been going non-stop all day and Erica hasn’t had time to download the photos we took today so I can’t post new pics. But I promise to do so when we get home. We have to leave the hotel at 4am so...

Compassion International El Salvador Trip Day 3

Today was a day of a wide range of emotions. When we arrived at the Project today the children greeted us with signs, song, and music. The Compassion project gives them the ability to learn how to play instruments! After a program by the children, we began to interact...

Compassion International El Salvador Trip Day 2

I will forever be changed after today.I have never seen such poverty in my entire life. I don’t know that I can even explain what I have seen and experienced. Entire families live in a room the size of my master bathroom. They have so little, yet those with...

We’ve Arrived!

The Hearts at Home Compassion Team L-R: Megan Kaeb, Erica Savage, Jill Savage, Anne (Savage) McClane, Kathy HarperWe’ve arrived in El Salvador! I can’t say it’s been uneventful, however. Right now our luggage is lost, but they believe they’ve...

Heading In Different Directions

This week is a unique week for the Savage family. As I shared last week, today, Erica, Anne, and I along with two Hearts at Home team members are traveling to El Salvador with Compassion, International. As you read this we will most likely be en route somewhere along...

Bungee cord kids

When my friend Susan got to the empty nest season of life, she issued me a warning…”Be careful of those young adult years. That’s when your kids have bungee cords attached to them. They leave…they come home…they leave…they come...

Interview with an author

Several years ago when our oldest son was a high school senior, my husband and I found out he had skipped school. We kept quiet, deciding that we would let him deal with the natural consequences of the school and once he got in trouble at school, we would administer...

Something to think about…

I’ve had the opportunity to go to Poland on two different occasions. The most recent was last spring in a ministry trip I took with my husband. While there, we went to a Holocaust museum and were both profoundly affected.On my first trip to Poland I went with...