Hello, My Name is Hart
When it all begins, it usually starts because something hits you, and there is an undeniable urge to do something about it. I couldn’t just sit back. Not after all that I had witnessed, not after all...
View ArticleHart Like A Home
I’m sure you’ve had a moment or perhaps even two; a memory there scratching at the back of your head of some fortress you held as though it were the most brilliant palace you’d ever set foot near. When...
View ArticleNinty-Two Plus Six
Sometimes it becomes difficult for me to sit in front of this keyboard and do a story justice with words. Oh, especially when the story is the most supernatural miracle which the Lord so naturally...
View ArticleComing Up New
I’m not sure what you were up to. We all have our story I suppose. Some were probably colouring and singing along to Veggie Tales in the carseat. Others were probably black belt in Karate, and owned...
View Article535
Reposted, as first written on http://aswaterreflectstheface.wordpress.com I can’t even decide what the combination was, but something ignited deep in my lungs when I stepped foot into that sweaty,...
View ArticleFour Letters, Action Word
I held my brand new niece today like she was the best thing to have happened to me. And she is. She and every other little child that has ever graced me with their presence is literally the best thing...
View ArticleComposing Beautiful
Here is the thing about ministries such as HART; the reality is that we’re dealing with a whole lot of brokenness, a whole lot of poverty, and the need is very great. I come from a family that loves...
View ArticleWrapped Up
I went to the theatre with my sister the other evening to watch Life Of Pi, which was a great movie- albeit I wouldn’t take children as my 24-year-old sister was jumping and hiding under her jacket the...
View ArticleBe Aware
Our staff had come across a blog that’s filtering from friend to friend, in horror that trafficking is really as wide-spread as it is, and in deeply convicting hopes that we might be able to make a...
View ArticleUNBOUND 2013 – Calgary Conference
Have you ever considered what little old, or little young you could do to eradicate modern day slavery? Yeah, us too. Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start. Especially when it seems there are...
View ArticleHello Friend
Since before Christmas, I’d waited for this very moment. It seemed as though I’d waited forever, and I finally just checked all the boxes and signed my name at the bottom of the page. We’ve all heard...
View ArticleConsumed
Just over a week ago now four-hundred people piled into Centre Street Church West Campus to watch a full length film, which exposed the darkness of the trafficking of children in many ways. The film is...
View ArticleSummer Starts Here
Can you smell it? That wild scent of thawing mud and growing grass fill my heart like it were all to happen again. I’m ready stuff my backpack and roll up my sleeping bag. Tendered hearts beat and...
View ArticleFollowing His Crazy Whispers
I’ve had the opportunity to both volunteer and work as staff for a few church organizations. From experience, I can tell you that the leadership on these teams literally cut open their chests and lay...
View ArticleThe Wonderer Part 1
Reblogged from be: Here I sit at this beautiful kitchen counter, counting down the mere hours before I jet-set across the world. There is a certain moment, I'm sure, I'll really realize that I'm going...
View ArticleDeeper In It
She had emailed me- her being around the world right now, and I being on the other side- and she asked me how the stories were coming along. She asked rhetorically, where would I even begin, there...
View ArticleMeasure of Success
“What makes it successful?” He was asking while the room was getting stuffier and the three of us were near comatose it were so warm. We were getting caught up in the thought of napping because those...
View ArticleEscape
Everyone wants out. We met with creators and dreamers, organizers and therapists to talk about why they do what they are doing. Almost a face-to-face reminder of why HART is so entirely devoted to...
View ArticleCars with Strangers
I sat across from her in that little kitchen filled with coffee, cucumbers and love while we discussed as much as we could of her perceptions of trafficking. Moldova is an obvious target for the...
View ArticleFresh Face
It would be a long flight home from Europe. I’d have to endure hours of movies and staring at nothingness while others found ease in sleeping through the travel to wherever they were going. I couldn’t...
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