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By Rich Sanders

Like so many members of our community, Lauren Ewashko moved to the Emerald Coast courtesy of the U.S. Air Force.  When her service concluded, Lauren stayed because her “soul loves it here” (Locals Get It)!

Lauren traveled the world extensively, mostly with just a backpack.  Like most Christian Capitalists, Lauren benefited from hard work.  “Every time I put everything in storage.  I’d go for six months, come back, and work really hard.  It was just easy to pick up gigs and get enough funds to support myself to go out for months at a time.  I loved it!”

Her simplified life brought her closer to God:  “Every time I’d come back, I would clear more out of the storage unit.  I started feeling more clarity.  My clarity with God started.”

Lauren then landed on a core principle of the Christian Capitalist: “I am so grateful to give because I receive… there’s something that I just trust and have faith that more will come.  There is trust in a gift…. so I choose to give. Therefore, I choose to allow and to trust and to receive and live and just let God move through me.”

A few months after her young daughter passed away, Lauren decided to go to a restaurant for the first time.  Her server was in a desperate situation.  When she was ready to leave, God called Lauren to give the server $100 – that was half of all the money Lauren had left!  Lauren explains: “So I go in and I take her a hundred dollars and I give it in love.   I’ve got tears pouring down my face. I was like: ‘I’m so grateful.’  This is the first time I’ve been out. You blessed my life.”

As many folks have mentioned on the podcast, Lauren received a benefit from her gift very quickly after that.  A few months later, she received a surprise invitation to a coaching course called Immersion on a Friday, and the course started on the next Monday.  “Guess how much the course costs?  $10,000!  A hundredfold for that $100 that just a few months later after I gave it… It is one of the reasons why I’m here right now… It’s a blessing to be a blessing to others. It just comes back if you’re open to receiving.”

Lauren decided that the best way for her to recover from her grief was to give back to the community.  As the Chief Engagement Officer of the Advanced Sacred Heart Academy, a school for children with developmental differences in Fort Walton, Lauren gets to advocate for those kids every day, and she helped raise funds for its new building.

Lauren recently appeared on the Christian Capitalist podcast, and you can listen to the entire episode on SOWAL Life’s website.  We are excited to share inspirational stories of hard work and generous giving to the poor and needy in the name of Jesus Christ, like Lauren Ewashko!

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