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She offers her story with vulnerability and grace. At the age of 8, she was sent to live with foster parents in Leicester, North Carolina, on their tomato/tobacco farm. She was their fifth official foster child and longed for a normal home. The feeling of being an orphan was a relentless shadow, but God was able to pierce through the loneliness and hard labor on the farm to reach Kim's heart.
"God my Father did not hide me from his powerful overwhelming love or His grace that sustained me through ever lonely nights. His presence was not hid from a young adolescent who had no idea how to become a lady. He is generous to those who call out to Him, and I did call -- even screamed and pleaded -- hundreds and thousands of times. My calls were answered and I learned the beautiful words 'I love you' from the Jesus who saw my condition and saw me through it. If I had courage at all, it was this: I know that I am not alone or powerless. All the mothers in the world cannot be the one I lost but even the one mother I had could not be the one I need. I desperately need the one called Jesus. He is the courageous one in me."
Kim says her children think she is overreacting most of the time. Her reply to this is always the same: "When I am dead in my coffin you’ll be able to say, 'At least now she isn't overreacting!'" Kim is using her passionate voice to help women find freedom from fear, abuse and hopelessness and to mentor leaders that will shape our culture not only relationally but also through entrepreneurial ingenuity. Kim’s firm belief is that we cannot change the world around us simply by reading books or singing songs by other people. We need to pen the books, write the music, create new ways of seeing the world.
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