Super exciting update: My friend Pat Layton has been chosen as a candidate for the She is Noble contest. And I am thrilled. Praying she gets the $10,000 for her ministry. Congrats Pat!
Just last week a friend sent me a preview for a new movie called Noble. The movie tells the story of a passionate and noble woman who just happens to be named Christina Noble. Christina overcame a terrible childhood in Ireland – homelessness, the death of her mother, an alcoholic father – and traveled a nontraditional path to South Asia, where she was inspired to take up the cause for hundreds of abandoned and orphaned children.
The movie has already won six awards, a best foreign film award and two audience awards. Noble is good story and a story for good–and I love movies like that. So I am jumping on the bandwagon. The movie producers are doing something noble and want it to be a celebration of noble woman everywhere who are making a positive difference in the world. They are asking women to nominate noble women to be featured (they are going to video some of them) and entered to win $10,000 for their charity.
So today, I am nominating a woman I am honored to call my friend, Pat Layton. She started her ministry about the time my husband, Mark, and I started Family First. We have spent over 2 decades together pursuing our callings, comparing notes and encouraging one another. We all need friends like Pat–she inspires me and she is noble.
Pat’s journey to changing lives began almost 30 years ago after she had an abortion. The burden of guilt and sorrow she felt could have left her bitter and hopeless, but she found another way.
“When I had cried all that I could cry, I handed my heart to God.”
With her focus on the healing power of faith, Pat has done amazing things to change lives and save lives.
She founded A Woman’s Place 25 years ago to guide thousands of women facing unplanned pregnancies. Through her Life Impact Network more than 50,000 women and their families have been offered adoption resources. Many more thousands where offered help with post-abortion recovery via the 2500 leaders trained through the program Pat began. Thousands more lives have been changed through the books and studies she has written.
And behind each of those numbers is a life — a woman who decides not to abort her baby; a child who gets to live; a woman who has a place to turn to deal with the guilt of abortion.
And behind those changed lives is the life of dedication and sacrifice of my friend, Pat Layton. She is noble.
Do you know a noble woman? Tell me about her below. Or better yet enter her to win! Be sure to put “iMOM” in the referral code.
