March 2020 Issue

Page 20

Photographer: Ker're-Point & Click Photography Makeup-Olevia Andrews- O' on the Glow Venue: Title Boxing Club Missouri City

AGONY TO ADVOCACY: TWO PEOPLE, ONE MISSION

by: Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert

GOD SENT TWO: Myself (Deirdre Dickson Gilbert) and Ethel Easter-Dismuke had no idea that our paths would cross. Our stories of agony to advocacy was a journey born out of the emotional depths of medical malpractice that led us to becoming advocates for those who could not speak for themselves. On the opposite sides of town, working in two separate occupations, living our own lives, God was preparing us for the training exercise for the purpose of empowering others. What we did not know was that we were about to be forced into a world of boundaries and secrets that would leave us breathless. “After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.� Luke 10:1


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