by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Partners
In the Ozarks, this is what community looks like. The team from Victory Mission pulled in outside their usual schedule — delayed by the week’s rain — to collect donations headed to people in need. We weren’t even open yet this morning. But foster care isn’t an 8–5...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | This is the Ozarks
The Ozarks has always had its own way of taking care of people. More than a century ago, a minister living in Lebanon wrote a novel about a town like ours. The hills were our hills. The streets were our streets. And the people — well — they were us. The book was The...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Board of Directors
Mary was raised in Lebanon, MO, where she now lives with her husband, Jason, and their two sons, Drew and Spencer. She holds a Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Missouri-Columbia and works as a home health therapist in the Lebanon area....
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | This is the Ozarks
In late December 1909, twelve children stepped off the Frisco and onto a platform they had never seen before. They had traveled from New York. Some still had living parents. Some had known more loss than most adults ever will. All of them were stepping into the...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Voices of Hope
I’m probably the most boring person you’ll ever meet. I was born in Germany. My dad was an engineer for the army, stationed there at the time. I don’t remember any of it. It’s on my bucket list to go back. When I was three he was reassigned to Fort Leonard Wood. That...
