Hope Can Change Everything
"When life becomes difficult, when cracks spread through our existence and our strength seems to leak out, fill the gaps with hope. Like gold adorning distressed ancient art, hope will reinforce, add value, and reveal more beauty."
Barbara Farmer
"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you."
Psalm 139:17-18
This is one of my favorite verses in the bible because it is hope. There are days through this journey that all I have is hope.
Katie's first youth pastor at our church, Harvest Bible Chapel, was a man she greatly respected, and still does. He is pastor, Mike DuBard and is now the senior pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel, Chattanooga, Tennessee. When we were going through those first years of her adolescence, she was under his preaching. Shortly after she began her youth years, Pastor Mike and his family, answered God's call to start a new Harvest Bible Chapel and headed out of Iowa to put down new roots in Chattanooga. www.harvestchattanooga.org
I have always heard that "behind every good pastor, stands his wife." I can see my sweet friend Becky, Pastor Rob's wife, reading this and being in total agreement.
Pastor Mike's wife, Jaime DuBard, is the wife behind the good pastor. She has stood her role as wife, friend, support, mother and Pastor's wife. She picked up her family from a settled church and family, school, and helped them emotionally through this entire unknown journey.
Jaime has proved her strength over and over again through this last year.
Lamar and I were not heavily involved when the DuBard family was here, so I didn't have the chance to know Jaime personally, but we do share something. She is my sister in Christ, bonded together for eternity and sadly, the yucky Cancer word. I was heartbroken, Jaime was diagnosed with cancer in September 2013. Looking back over the last year, she has been so very inspiring to me and she has proved her faith talk over and over again. As a believer in God, we place ourselves on a higher standard to this life. As a Pastor's wife, she lives a life above reproach. There are times when all of us face hard trials and it is how we handle these trials that proves our character.
In September of 2013, when Jaime was diagnosed, she started a blog called "We Won't be shaken", a journey through her cancer. http://www.harvestchattanooga.org/10564/blog/blog_id/372193/Jaimes-Blog-We-Wont-Be-Shaken
Jaime has shown through, God's mercy & grace, what it is to rely on God through trials and pain. She has been a rock of strength through this journey.
As a part of women's ministry, we would pray for her. When I prayed, I gave her to God, because I knew that he was the only one with the hand to heal her. Every night at our family dinner table, we gave her to God and lifted her up. She is still prayed for by us all.
I am writing about Jaime because my heart ached for her when she was first diagnosed. I had no idea what she was feeling emotionally, but on May 6, 2014, I found out.
I live with this cancer, but I am not letting it control who I am and I'm for sure not letting it mess with my faith.
Jaime's blog is a favorite in my everyday reading because her faith, though constantly tested, never waivers.
I am grateful for you, Jaime, my sister in Christ.
Barbara Farmer
"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you."
Psalm 139:17-18
This is one of my favorite verses in the bible because it is hope. There are days through this journey that all I have is hope.
Katie's first youth pastor at our church, Harvest Bible Chapel, was a man she greatly respected, and still does. He is pastor, Mike DuBard and is now the senior pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel, Chattanooga, Tennessee. When we were going through those first years of her adolescence, she was under his preaching. Shortly after she began her youth years, Pastor Mike and his family, answered God's call to start a new Harvest Bible Chapel and headed out of Iowa to put down new roots in Chattanooga. www.harvestchattanooga.org
I have always heard that "behind every good pastor, stands his wife." I can see my sweet friend Becky, Pastor Rob's wife, reading this and being in total agreement.
Pastor Mike's wife, Jaime DuBard, is the wife behind the good pastor. She has stood her role as wife, friend, support, mother and Pastor's wife. She picked up her family from a settled church and family, school, and helped them emotionally through this entire unknown journey.
Jaime has proved her strength over and over again through this last year.
Lamar and I were not heavily involved when the DuBard family was here, so I didn't have the chance to know Jaime personally, but we do share something. She is my sister in Christ, bonded together for eternity and sadly, the yucky Cancer word. I was heartbroken, Jaime was diagnosed with cancer in September 2013. Looking back over the last year, she has been so very inspiring to me and she has proved her faith talk over and over again. As a believer in God, we place ourselves on a higher standard to this life. As a Pastor's wife, she lives a life above reproach. There are times when all of us face hard trials and it is how we handle these trials that proves our character.
In September of 2013, when Jaime was diagnosed, she started a blog called "We Won't be shaken", a journey through her cancer. http://www.harvestchattanooga.org/10564/blog/blog_id/372193/Jaimes-Blog-We-Wont-Be-Shaken
Jaime has shown through, God's mercy & grace, what it is to rely on God through trials and pain. She has been a rock of strength through this journey.
As a part of women's ministry, we would pray for her. When I prayed, I gave her to God, because I knew that he was the only one with the hand to heal her. Every night at our family dinner table, we gave her to God and lifted her up. She is still prayed for by us all.
I am writing about Jaime because my heart ached for her when she was first diagnosed. I had no idea what she was feeling emotionally, but on May 6, 2014, I found out.
I live with this cancer, but I am not letting it control who I am and I'm for sure not letting it mess with my faith.
Jaime's blog is a favorite in my everyday reading because her faith, though constantly tested, never waivers.
I am grateful for you, Jaime, my sister in Christ.
"I Pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him"
Romans 15:13
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