April 14, 2008
Sarah Elisabet Oftedal of the Martha and Mary House
Posted by kristinsdottir under Saint Elizabeth the New-Martyr, abortion survivors, crisis pregnancy
Martha and Mary House provides a home for pregnant women in crisis. Its housemother, Sarah Elisabet Oftedal, in talking about her journey to Orthodox Christianity, says, “I felt a glimmer of hope that Christianity was real and could save me from nothingness. Since I could not prove it false, I made a desperate leap of faith across the abyss of what seemed absurd and promised God that I would live the rest of my life as if He was there.” I could have said those same words myself!
But Sarah Elisabet really lives those words. Here’s more about her journey and her current work.
(photo credit to Jim Forest)
April 22, 2008 at
I hope you feel better, too!!!
May 9, 2008 at
I had the great pleasure of meeting her at our Parish Ministries Conference last year, and she is a lovely person.
May 13, 2008 at
What a pleasure finding your material. My new, more relevent “name” is faithswork.blogspot.com. We’ve been chrismated Orthodox about 14 years; and was a Protestant pastor over 35 years before that. My dad came from Norway- so I was wondering about the Kristinsdottir name. God bless.