For those who haven’t been following my story, please check out chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

- Ecc. 3:1

My best friend calls me a well-digger. I’m not sure I fully understood what that meant until I heard a Christine Caine message from January’s Passion 2020 Conference. She talked about how God wants to dig into old ministries and do new things. He wants to create completely new ministries as well.

I had the privilege of creating a non-profit, helping build new programs in another one, and finding ways to create new Christian programs for women to come together. In the same time period, I got to help pour into some boys who are now becoming men. I didn’t live in a house and raise them - but I got to travel with them spent hours hanging out, and did life with them. I spent this same time period working with another girl with a passion equaling mine for teen moms. Now it’s time for her to shine as leader of that ministry.

My new thing? I got hired at a pregnancy center as executive director in two counties. They want me to help build the brand and cast vision. It really is a dream! In my free time, a dear friend and I have been leading people on prayer walks through our city of Milwaukee. Once a week, I still get to help a group of those boys build a ministry and watch boys become men and build families. In my spare time, I now get to spent my time with my family - including weekly walks with my best friend where we talk about ministries instead of building them.

That’s probably not the conclusion for this chapter of my life you were expecting, but that’s the beauty of it. There is a time and season for everything. In this closing season of my life, I met so many young adults and got to show the church what the community needs. In this new season, I found myself rooted in a community. After years of moving, I found a family - scattered across Wisconsin - and I get to plant myself for the first time ever. However, you never know when I’ll pop back in with a life update or come alongside of Yelena. That’s the beauty of Tirzah Magazine, we’re a community of women committed to Jesus and saving lives - we’re intertwined for eternity. Stay tuned for the story of another Tirzah girl in the following months!

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

- Isa. 43:19

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alycia Marie is a free-spirited wanderer learning to find roots. She currently resides in Milwaukee and serves the community of southeastern Wisconsin. You can typically find her outdoors, as long as it’s warm, hanging out with family/close friends and meeting soon-to-not-be strangers. In her spare time, she writes, drinks chai tea, and builds non-profits, homes, families, and people. Some people like to call it missions. She prefers well-digging.