"Proactive people show you what they love, what they want, what they purpose, and what they stand for. These people are very different from those who are known by what they hate, what they don't like, what they stand against & what they will not do." -Cloud and Townsend.

What I Purpose to be About:

• Connectedness and Community
• Seeking Redemption in Everything.
• Transformational Relationships
• Family...Adoption in every sense.
  • The Church as a Family
  • The Global Family
• Getting to know my neighbors
  • Helping my neighbors, and playing with the kids in my neighborhood Just Because I Can.
• Environmental Justice in the Inner City
• Finding Joy where we Are
• Conserving without Excuses
• Living without Excuses
• Discovering that doing the Right thing leads to Unexpected Joy
• Peace: making it, living it, speaking it, loving it.
• Education!!! Teaching our Children about Nature, Kindness, Goodness, Reaching Out, Finding Joy, Working Hard and Resting Hard, and a little about Music, Math, Geography and Writing :-)
• Community Gardens, Children's Gardens...and eating fresh veggies!
• Planting Trees (especially Catalpa Trees!)
• Good Christian Counseling.
• GROWING (in Christ, in Life...never being too old to learn and change our hearts!)
• Talking about Insecurity! and maybe someday conquering it in my life and others lives.
• Getting Christians to talk about Sex more openly-especially with Teens and Young Adults. Talking to Teens about Sex, Sexual Assault and the Hope and Unconditional Healing Christ Offers.
• Hospitality with no strings attached!
• Resisting an Impersonal Society based on Economic Growth
  • Making gifts, or donating to missions organizations for gifts.
  • Knitting/Sewing
  • Cooking vs. Buying
  • Buying used clothes
• Pursuing Optimism
• Supporting the Arts...especially in the lives of Children!
• Praying for others and with others, caring for others, talking to others face-to-face.
• Sharing my story, hearing the stories of others.
• Learning to see Everyone as Deeply Beautiful.
• Knowing the Places I live intimately. Being Patient and finding Happiness where I AM.
• Reserving space for Children and Adults to learn about Nature IN Nature...but, most importantly, to learn to LOVE it.
• Creating a spirit and lifestyle of Patience.
• Saving and Appreciating Amphibians.
• Camp! Every child should have the opportunity to go to camp.
  • Games, Crayons, Bible Lessons
  • The mentoring relationships Camp provides.
• Writing-everyone can write, everyone has something to say, the process of writing!, words themselves.
• Persistent Love.
• Attempting to Take the Bible Seriously in Everything I do.