Years ago, a young seventeen-year-old girl and an eighteen-year-old fellow met during their freshman year of college. As time passed, they fell in love and began to realize they shared similar life goals and values—one in particular being the importance of family.
How did family become so important to these two?
Strangely enough, two exactly opposite life experiences brought them to the same conclusion.
She grew up in a broken home and longed to give her future family better than what she had as a child. Meanwhile, he grew up in a stable environment, with parents investing in not just their own family, but in the families of their community. He realized he wanted to do the same in the future.
Eventually, that girl went off to medical school to become a physician. While there, she began to realize the importance of life wholeness and how one’s social/familial, emotional, spiritual, and financial health play into physical health.
Although she eventually made the decision to leave the world of medicine to stay at home with the all-important family she ended up having with that young fellow, their dream of bettering the whole life of families everywhere remained. Combined with their ultimate desire to reveal the true nature of God’s love to the world . . . The Planted was born.