Encourage One Another (and build each other up!)

  -By Gloria “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own  understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6

Taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8

  Psalm 16:11 (ESV) 11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." -Matthew 6:9-13

-By Katrina Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. -Psalm 25:5

-By Tony   The year 2025 has been a very interesting year. At the beginning of the year, I was still out of the job since the layoff in August 2024. It had been almost 6 months. Each day, I tried to bring myself back up and send in applications, oftentimes with no response or interview. Things were pretty discouraging to say the least. Fortunately, in late February, a recruiter reached out to me for a position and the company was willing to hire me after a few rounds of interviews. But the role paid less, and wasn’t as shiny on the resume as my last job.  Right out of college, I landed a position at Deloitte, one of the “Big 4” accounting firms, serving almost 90% of Fortune 500 companies. At the time I thought , I really did it! But in just a year, I was laid off. So, after 6 discouraging months of job searching, all I could find was a role that I was not entirely interested in, nor very fond of. I thought, Well, that’s it. I’ve shot my shot. My career will never come back ...