Life

A Christmas Full of Hope

Your support gives our kids a home, family, and community where they feel special, loved, and wanted.   Your gifts to Cookson Hills allow children to feel cherished. You help kids catch a glimpse of how our Creator sees them; valuable and worthy of love. This view is far more significant than Christmas memories; it impacts…

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Hope in Horsemanship

One of my favorite activities in the spring is watching the horsemanship demonstrations. Students in the class show off what they have learned over the previous months while working with the horses. I like to sit in the front row so that I can see everything. That’s what I did this spring. The students displayed…

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A Totally Different Me

Growing up I did not have a strong mother figure. I was left so many times by my birth mom and she was never fully there mentally. Between prison and drugs, my mom spent very little time with me. When she stopped calling me altogether I took that really hard. I felt I could not…

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Living Hope

The greatest lessons of my life have come through the difficult seasons. As 2019 closed and we headed into 2020, I was praying for God to lead us boldly into a new season of ministry and growth at Cookson Hills. We had made a smooth transition in leadership, we were seeing amazing stories written in…

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